Looking to the Future: Charting a Path Forward Together

Hello Speculative Futures NYC Family!

We know it has been awhile, and we are excited to get back in touch with all of you for a chapter-wide re-engagement and re-alignment meeting!

Since the chapters inception a few years ago, we haven't had a focused check-in with our members to talk about the chapter's mission, values, focuses, and leadership. In addition, when COVID19 struck, we shifted to a new virtual format, and became much more closely connected with our global chapters network through online events and forums, as well as a fully online PRIMER2020.

Given all of these changes, we'd like to kick off a new era for SFNYC by working hand in hand with members to chart a shared vision for the future of our chapter.

Ayo and I have been brainstorming over the summer to come up with some ideas for chapter organization, co-leadership, themes, and goals we might want to explore.

In this meeting:
• We will introduce you to some of the ideas we have for a SFNYC framework, goals, and meeting cadence
• We will collaborate to define core values, themes for exploration, potential outputs with the goal of co-creating a brief "Organization Manifesto" about who we are, what we care about, and how we as the NYC chapter of the global SF community are approaching speculative futures through our own local perspective
• We will have a discussion about how SFNYC members can take more collective ownership of the chapter, including helping source/lead events and workshops, things we want to accomplish together, and what artifacts and platforms might support this
• Discuss what types of partnership we might undertake to connect the diversity of our membership to opportunities for new types of speculation, and spreading the impact of futures thinking and design

We are super excited to work with all of you, and hope you will join us for this important discussion!!!