​⚡️Future of Pancakes

​Overview

​These pancakes are from the future. Attendees make their own assumptions and ideas about how a trend, event, or innovation led to this new pancake. The Future Mundane explores ideas and innovations that may not be perceived as world-changing, but could play a grand role in changing the way society moves.

​What to Expect

• ​Artifacts from the Future — Explore a collection of objects from an imagined tomorrow, each with its own scenario, description, and place on the timeline of pancake evolution

• ​The Co-Designed Timeline — Add your own assumptions, ideas, and predictions to a large-format timeline, turning it into a collectively authored strategy for the future of breakfast

• ​The "What If" Conversation — Join a facilitated discussion about how a single mundane object can reveal bigger truths about innovation, culture, and what we choose to design for

• ​Future the Mundane — Share what other everyday objects you'd like to see reimagined and added to the canon

• ​Pancakes!

​Parking & Transportation

• ​Public Transportation

  • ​Muni Bus Lines: 5 Fulton, 5R Fulton Rapid, and 21 Hayes

  • ​BART: Civic Center Station is about a 15-minute walk or a short bus ride (north on 21 Hayes)

• ​Driving

  • ​Street parking is available on Fulton Street and surrounding blocks

​Accessibility & Considerations
The venue is wheelchair accessible.

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

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