ECO-CULTURAL FUTURISM: Bridging Diverse Backgrounds & Ancestral Eco-Wisdom to Co-Create Our Regenerative Future — Workshop & Happy Hour
Workshop + Eco-Futurists Happy Hour
🌏 What is ECO-CULTURAL FUTURISM?🌿
Eco-Cultural Futurism, coined by Nina, is a visionary framework that serves as a midwife for evolutionary solutions toward our thriving eco-future. It empowers each person to Ikasu—to let thrive, cultivate, and amplify—their Ikigai, their unique purpose and contribution to our collective future, by discovering untapped potentials and unique capacities rooted in each person’s diverse background.
Just as the biodiversity of the Amazon advances medicine, the intersection of our eco-cultural diversity generates an edge-effect of collaborative abundance—a wealth of solutions beyond our current imagination, fueling a radically optimistic future. Where the ocean meets the land is where the most life thrives, where diversity is richest, and where the most evolution occurs. Looking to nature, we ask: What are the right conditions for the emergence of transformative solutions—a future that reflects our collective highest potentials? A regenerative future does not look like a single top-down monolith. It is an opportunity to uplift our collective voices, our diverse strengths, and our shared eco-creativity. We need all hands on deck to co-create it.
It is essential to center ancestral eco-wisdom keepers alongside our technological and design communities in co-creating evolutionary models—so that these ancient technologies are not lost, but activated to help build next-generation systems, communities, and physical spaces. As we face a sixth mass extinction, we are also witnessing the loss of eco-cultural biodiversity—ancestral knowledge that holds vital keys to our regenerative future. This framework calls us to honor, uplift, weave, and harmonize ancestral eco-wisdom with modern advancements—not through extraction, but through mutual thriving, grounded in reciprocity and reverence. Let’s embark on a journey to discover the untapped possibilities waiting to emerge from within all of us!
🌏 Workshop Overview 🌀
Join us for a hands-on cultivation lab where we explore what becomes possible at the intersections of our diverse backgrounds, ancestral eco-wisdoms, and regenerative imagination. Rooted in the Eco-Cultural Futurism framework, this immersive session invites participants into a dynamic journey of systems thinking, ancestral reconnection, and collective innovation.
In this workshop, you will:
Reconnect with your own ancestral eco-wisdom and explore practices that reflect your unique lineage(s) through a regenerative lens.
Engage in interactive exercises and storytelling to surface untapped strengths and lived knowledge from within your own cultural background.
Collaborate in breakout groups to apply diverse wisdom traditions to real-world systemic challenges—identifying respectful, non-extractive ways to integrate these insights.
Use Eco-Cultural Futurism’s tools to reimagine existing projects—or seed new regenerative offerings aligned with your values.
Walk away with a clearer sense of your Ikigai—your unique purpose and offering to a thriving world—and creative strategies to embed that purpose into your work, community, or venture.
This is more than a workshop—it’s a cultivation portal.
Together, we’ll awaken our regenerative dharma, unlock evolutionary solutions to today’s polycrisis, and chart pathways toward our thriving eco-future. With tools and inspiration in hand, you'll leave ready to evolve your offerings, redesign systems, and seed regenerative pathways where all beings can mutually thrive.
🌏 Event Details 🚀
🗓️ Date: Friday, April 25
🕝 Time: 5:00–7:00 PM PT
📍 Location: Broadway Studios, San Francisco
🔗 Register now: https://lu.ma/tic5not5
🌱 Schedule 🌱
5:00 PM: General Admission Check-in
5:10 PM: ECO-CULTURAL FUTURISM Workshop
6:30 PM: Happy Hour
7:00 PM: Event Concludes
🌏 About Host 🤲
Nina Bazan-Sakamoto: Nina Bazan-Sakamoto is a multidisciplinary sustainability strategist, community organizer, program manager, and Eco-Cultural events producer + curator, and regenerative entrepreneur. She is the founder of Symbiotic Living Air Plant Wearable Art. Nina was a former Zero Waste Consultant and Cultural District Project Manager, is trilingual, and holds a BA in International Relations with a minor in Environmental Studies. She is certified in ESG/CSR, and Regenerative Economics & Livelihoods. As a mixed-ethnicity woman, she is a natural bridge-builder and whole systems thinker with a deep commitment to addressing our global polycrisis. Her life’s purpose is to harmonize diverse backgrounds to catalyze local and global collaboration on evolutionary sustainability solutions.
🌏 About the Venue 🏛️🎤🪩
Creative Community Studios at 443 Broadway Street—a storied venue now in financial turnaround and creative revival. Louis Armstrong, Patti Smith, Dead Kennedys, REM, Green Day, Ramones, Iggy Pop, Metallica, etc. played there along with comedians such as Whoopi Goldberg, Dave Chappell and many more. 100 years of music. It's more than 12,000 square feet. The space has ~220 hours a week of space that can host events, 4 rooms, two floors.
Creative Community Studios has partnered with Broadway Studios Event Venue and FAME Venue to co-invent a future of creative space in San Francisco.
By registering, all attendees consent to photography, videography, and audio recordings during the event and grant organizers rights for promotional purposes without compensation.
By registering for this event, you agree to share your registration information with the organizers of SF Climate Week.