In Your Feelings? The Future of Yearning
Have you been in your feelings lately?
People today have been encouraged to confront and process their inner worlds more than any generation prior – all at a time when psychological danger feels high, and social ties are getting looser.
In Your Feelings? is an event series by Futures Friends NYC, dedicated to unpacking emotions against a backdrop of change, and exploring where they’re going. How has the algorithmic amplification of rage impacted our social fabric? What does fulfillment look like in the age of optimization? Why are people yearning for eras they’ve never experienced themselves?
Our agenda is designed under the hypothesis that we can foster better, more hopeful futures by processing heavy emotions together, and with intent.
Our first event is focused on Yearning. For each event, three speakers are invited to discuss an emotion, where they’re seeing it, and how it’s evolving – on a personal level or cultural level. Speakers will then convene for a panel discussion, followed by an interactive engagement that will carry us through to our next event.
Program
7PM Doors, getting drinks and snacks, saying hi.
7.30PM Speakers present artifacts of yearning:
Tamika Abaka-Wood Director, Dial-an-Ancestor + Corner Booth
Trudy Painter Founding Engineer, Atma Sciences
Agus Panzoni: Head of Culture & Strategy, Death to Stock
7.50PM Panel discussion
8.15PM Audience Q&A
8.30PM Self-directed chitchat + option to participate in Dial-an-Ancestor.
9PM See ya!
Facilitator Bios
Lore Oxford
Chapter Lead @ Futures Friends; researcher, trend forecaster, strategist.
Lore is an interdisciplinary researcher, trend forecaster and strategist specialized in exploring how digital platforms augment our experience of the world, and our role within it. She’s worked with multinationals across industries to unearth cutting edge insights that inform more impactful products and communications that withstand the test of time. In her personal practice, she’s interested in creating space to think about culture and the future collaboratively, without the pressures of the algorithm or the limitations of a commercial brief.
Julienne DeVita
Chapter Lead @ Futures Friends; founder @ Liminal; adjunct professor, Parsons School of Design.
Julienne is a designer turned futures consultant encouraging people to think, feel, and act differently for the long-term. As the founder of Liminal, a design futures agency, she blends strategic foresight, systems thinking, and design methodologies to develop strategies 5+ years into the future. Julienne is an adjunct professor at Parsons School of Design where she teaches courses across AI, design, and strategic foresight and conducts research with the university. She is currently serving as a Resident Researcher with Studio Atelierista studying embodied futuring.