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ChapterTopic/TitleSpeakers(s)/Panelists/Hosts (if applicable)FormatDescriptionLink to Event ListingLink to Materials/Presentation/Recording you are willing to shareWho should people contact for more info?
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New York CityHoloptic Foresight Dynamics: Designing Collective Vision for Emerging FuturesFrank Spencer, The Futures SchoolTalk + Interactive Mapping ActivitySpeculative Futures NYC is excited to welcome back Yvette Montero Salvatico & Frank Spencer, Principals at Kedge & Founders/Lead Instructors of The Futures School, for an evening of applied learning that will allow you to begin exploring this critical shift in human thinking and action.

As part of the meetup, participants will:

• Learn about the HFD approach as it relates to participatory foresight and human development.
• Practice the future-empowered mindsets of “Sense, Mesh and Transform” to build landscapes of change.
• Work through the “Inside-Out/Outside-In” framework to engage collective experiential futuring, emergent thinking, and constructivist foresight.		https://www.meetup.com/NY-Speculative-Futures/events/267522465/Dana Martens - martd371@newschool.edu
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New York CityCome PlayTest Spoke, a Science Fiction Storytelling GameEvan, Spoke CreatorPlaytest a speculative board gameWe are having a special last-minute Meetup to help try out a great new Speculative project, Spoke, a science fiction storytelling game.

It's creator, Evan, will be visiting for London for a couple of days next week, and is excited to try it out with Speculative Futures NYC!

Spoke is a board game for understanding complex futures. It can be played by individuals or mixed groups. Players collaboratively conjure up future narratives using prompts from story element cards and the board. The cards and board form a distributed science fiction world that players can inhabit and shape to fit their own imaginations. Story elements are based on diverse characters, current research topics and events around the rise of automated manufacturing, social media, machine learning and AI.		https://www.meetup.com/NY-Speculative-Futures/events/264188384/Dana Martens - martd371@newschool.edu
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New York City (in conjunction with PRIMER19)Speculative Futures NYC | Pre-PRIMER19 MeetupJack & Dana (organizers) facilitated several speakers & a panel of SF chapter leadersTalks, Panel, Livecode AlgoraveJoin Speculative Futures NYC as we usher in PRIMER19 with a pre-conference Meetup chock-full of speakers, performances, and opportunities to connect with our larger Speculative Futures community!!!

UPDATED LINE-UP!!!!

// TALKS
Alisha Bhagat, Forum for the Future
Re-Imagining Lunch - Applied Futures in Practice

Chris Woebken, Extrapolation Factory
Stretching Our Collective Imagination

// SPECULATIVE FUTURES PANEL ft. International Chapter Leaders
Luisa Ji | Ontario | Canada (Moderator)
Andrés Valencia | Guadalajara | Mexico
Vera Karina Gebhardt Fearns | Lisbon | Portugal
Lourdes Rodríguez | Madrid | Spain

// LIVECODE ALGORAVE 🎵
Andrew Cotter (Music) & Zach Krall (Visuals) will collaboratively perform live-coded music/art - an Algorave. All sounds and visuals are created live in front of the audience, and the real-time code is projected for audience members to see.		https://www.meetup.com/NY-Speculative-Futures/events/260622656/Dana Martens - martd371@newschool.edu
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New York CityWired for Next: Using Foresight Ethnography for Speculative VisionsTalk + Interactive ActivityJoin us on Thursday May 30th, to hear more on the topic from Frank Spencer, professional futurist, consultant, speaker, author, Founding Principal at Kedge and Co-founder at The Future School.

In this creative and empowering workshop, we will dive into what humanity will “think, do and be” in light of the unprecedented changes taking place all around us.

Along with becoming familiar with the “Wired for Next” map that highlights radical and speculative images of the future, participants will work through a foresight ethnographic tool, “Point of Impact,” to explore future-empowered visions that will require changing present-day design strategies to achieve desired transformations.

In this Meetup, You Will:

• Learn a method for recognizing your assumptions about the future that could keep you from seeing and leveraging the changing role of humans in design, learning, leading, and creating.

• Identify how new mindsets are required for redefining and reframing design in the rapidly changing environment of the 21st Century.

• Understand how creating speculative visions of the future requires collective action in the present.

• Explore how to use a Strategic Foresight Ethnographic tool to examine the extended ramifications of the shifting landscape.		https://www.meetup.com/NY-Speculative-Futures/events/260175841/
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New York CityThe Frontiers of Design (30 min film screening + discussion)Doberman NYC hosted filmFilm Screening + DiscussionJoin Speculative Futures NYC as we partner with Doberman for an extra special event!

Doberman has generously opened up their space to host an amazing film screening and panel discussion that speculates on the future of Design.

The Frontiers of Design is a film project interviewing 20 influential organizations and designers about what’s next for Design.		https://www.meetup.com/NY-Speculative-Futures/events/260375695/
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New York CityCyborgs at the Frontiers: Cybernetic Speculation & Human TranscendenceDanya GlabauTalk + Design Your Own Cybernetic Enhancement ActivityThis month, Danya Glabau joins us to discuss how past and present cyborgs can act as figures for speculating the future of humanity.

From Norbert Wiener’s hearing glove, to Clynes and Kline’s metabolically extended mouse, to cyborgs in science fiction, cyborgs figure centrally in speculating about how humans will transcend their bodies and the planet Earth for new frontiers of place, function, and sensation.

Danya will also discuss some of the key dynamics that have arisen in her research on cyborg history:		https://www.meetup.com/NY-Speculative-Futures/events/259148442/
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New York CityThe Speculative ArtifactAyodamola OkunseindeTalk + Q&Ahis month we have the honor of welcoming Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde! Ayo will be showing some of his amazing work and will have a lot of it on hand for people to try!

From fly controlled wearables to African artifacts from the future, artist and educator Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde discusses his speculative works with respect to memory, culture, futurity.
https://www.meetup.com/NY-Speculative-Futures/events/253787077/
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New York CityShould Everyone be a Futurist?Elliott MontgomeryArtist Talk + Q&AThis month we have the incredible Elliott Montgomery!

Coming off of his insightful presentation at PRIMER18, Elliott Montgomery will join us for a discussion of democratized speculation. A leader in the participatory futures practice, Elliott has a wealth of knowledge about how to engage diverse audiences around alternative narratives. He has even co-authored a book of effective methods. But the question remains, "Should Everyone be a Futurist?"
https://www.meetup.com/NY-Speculative-Futures/events/250543558/
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New York CityRaising Robotic NativesJonas Voigt & Philipp SchmittArtist Talk + Q&AThis month we have the pleasure of welcoming Jonas Voigt and Philipp Schmitt!

Raising Robotic Natives (Bogner, Schmitt, Voigt) explores interactions between children and robots that could raise them as the first generation of ‘robotic natives’. The project consists of a series of four conceptual objects that deal with concerns regarding home safety, robots’ social status, intimacy and educational challenges.

Jonas and Philipp will take the project as a case study to introduce a process for speculative design — from concept to methodology to documentation.
https://www.meetup.com/NY-Speculative-Futures/events/248214705/
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New York City"Better" : Navigating Imaginaries in Design and Synthetic BiologyDr Alexandra Daisy GinsbergArtist Talk + Q&AThis month we are joined by the incredible Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg!
• When designers promise a better future, they are not alone: engineers, marketers, politicians and scientists also invoke the imaginary of better, creating dreams that can have material effects. But better is not a universal good or a verified measure: better is imbued with politics and values. And better will not be delivered equally, if at all. What is better? Who is it better for. Who gets to decide? Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s uses design to to question better, opening up the possibility of alternative dreams.
https://www.meetup.com/NY-Speculative-Futures/events/247293169/
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