​⚡️FutureCast

​Overview

​FutureCast is a two-hour participatory session where you'll answer seven questions about what San Francisco becomes. Not predictions but choices. Your answers become a dispatch. An AI called HERALD writes your first draft - from your perspective, in your voice. You edit it. Then you read it to the room.

​Participants are divided into groups, each building a different part of the world: the neighborhoods that held, the industries that transformed, the stories that got told - and the ones that didn't. Every group contributes a piece. Together, they become a single podcast episode, a portrait of San Francisco into the future as the people in that room imagined it.

​What to expect:

• ​~2 hours

• ​15-20 participants across four groups

• ​World-building, discussion, and recording - no experience needed

• ​Your voice in the final cut

​San Francisco has always been the place where the next thing gets built first, and where the people who live with it rarely get to say what it becomes. Today and in the future, AI has reshaped work, media, and what a neighborhood even is.

​You're here to build that world - and decide what it's become.

​The episode will be released publicly after the session.

​What to Expect

• ​Drinks & Light Bites

​Parking & Transportation
SFMOMA is at 151 Third Street, SoMa.

• ​Transit: Easiest way in. Powell St. BART is a 7-minute walk. Muni lines 30, 45, and 8 stop nearby.

• ​Rideshare: Drop-off on 3rd Street directly in front of the building.

• ​Bike: Bay Wheels dock at 3rd & Howard, half a block away.

• ​Parking: 5th & Mission Garage (833 Mission St) is the closest. Street parking in SoMa on evenings is hit or miss.

​Accessibility & Considerations
SFMOMA is fully wheelchair accessible, with elevator access to all floors and accessible restrooms on every level. If you have access needs, dietary restrictions, or anything else we should know before the session, reply to your confirmation email and we'll make it work.

​About the Future of Us Festival

​Launching on America's 250th anniversary, the inaugural Future of Us festival is a 10-day celebration of civic imagination and possibility. We're turning community-sourced, expert-crafted visions of the future into art, storytelling, and participatory experiences. With 100+ events spanning every corner of the city (floral labyrinths, speculative future worlds, dance parties with a purpose, and neighborhood meet-ups), it's a living exploration of what a more creative and generative civic culture could feel like. Organized around four themes (Green Futures, Social Futures, Science & Tech Futures, and Media Futures), Future of Us is breaking down the barriers between art, ideas, and each other, and everyone is invited to co-imagine what comes next.

​⚡ Learn more: future-of-us.com

​About the Future Culture Fellows Program

​The Future Culture Fellowship is a yearlong program that resources the people best positioned to shape the future of civic life in San Francisco: the community builders, artists, and grassroots visionaries already rooted in neighborhoods and traditions across the Bay. Fellows design and host original, science- and arts-centered experiences that reflect their unique perspectives on what's possible, and become part of a growing Future Culture Collective dedicated to making civic life in SF more vibrant, connected, and imaginative. The event you're signing up for was dreamed up by one of the 2026 Fellows.

​⚡ Meet your host: https://www.future-of-us.com/2026-fellows/yan-liang

​⚡ Learn more about the Fellows Program: future-of-us.com/collective

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