Lab-level: set up a minimal infrastructure (of which this group on Egderyders is the first building block); fundraise; strategize.
Lab rats level: collaborate on pieces of new knowledge (econ papers, or SF fiction, or both), discuss results, iterate. Here is a process that starts from a pre-paper contributed by one of us (@mstn) and is moving towards a first online seminar. I think you, Jean, have an email with a proposal from Frédéric, no?