SDNNYC: Jungle Tarot - A Workshop for Designers

Wednesday, August 5th, 6:00-8:00 PM EDT
Presentation & Workshop
A Workshop on Speculative Change
for Designers, Innovators, & Change Makers

Event Description

What if tarot was a design method?

Organizations are full of signals we rarely talk about, power dynamics, unspoken assumptions, informal networks, and emotional undercurrents that shape how decisions get made. Jungle Tarot is a strategic reflection tool to help teams make sense of these hidden forces. Using storytelling, symbolism and speculative prompts, the deck invites participants to explore workplace challenges from new perspectives and spark conversations that traditional facilitation often misses.

In this interactive session, we'll share the story behind Jungle Tarot's development and invite participants to experience this strategic facilitation tool through a guided collaborative reading. The workshop is designed for designers, strategists, facilitators, and leaders who are curious about alternative ways to unlock insight, navigate ambiguity, and create more meaningful conversations within organizations.

No fortune telling, just curiosity and inspiration!

Links:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jungletrt/
Website: https://www.jungletarot.com/

About Our Speakers
Jungle Tarot
Jungle Tarot is a strategic reflection tool created by four graduates of Parsons School of Design: Mini Mrinalini, Angel Luo, Utsav Vekariya, and Isa Meriales. Now working as strategists across design consulting, marketing, product development, and beyond, the team continues to explore how design can shape organizations and systems.

Originally developed through an exploration of service design as a vehicle for democracy, the project examines how participation, power, and collective decision-making can be made more visible within organizations. Jungle Tarot reimagines the traditional tarot deck as a framework for strategic conversations, using symbolism, storytelling, and speculation to help teams surface hidden dynamics, challenge assumptions, and navigate complexity together.
Agenda

• 6:00-6:45PM Meet & mingle over food and drink
• 6:45-7:30PM Presentation & Workshop
• 7:30-8:00PM Discussion & Networking
• 8:00PM - ? After-Party

Address
Intuit
51 Astor Place
New York, NY 10003

After-Party:
Cuna Bar
The Standard
25 Cooper Sq

Financial Transparency & Scholarships
As a non-profit, we do our best to strike a balance between making our events available to all and ensuring we keep the lights on. For this event, we are charging $10.

• If this amount is prohibitive for you to attend this event, please message Barry on Meetup and we’ll provide you a scholarship to this event. You can also email us at sdn.newyorkchapter@gmail.com as we may miss messages on this platform.
• If you’d like to provide scholarships, please message Barry at at sdn.newyorkchapter@gmail.com and he will follow up with you.

See you there :)
David, Francesco, Yasmin, Cameron, Lynn, Nicholas, & Barry