It goes without saying that the power of storytelling is a critical ingredient of architecting more equitable futures. But the lines between story and reality are often blurred by differing perspectives and contexts. Who is telling the story? When does it take place? Why is it important? How is it told? In our practice of future architecture, we invite voices that represent a wide spectrum of biological and biographical backgrounds to create speculative narratives in order to expand our collective imagination, recast old stories, and build more ethical futures.

We work toward understanding the deep complexity of regenerative systems so we can innovate and craft new conditions to achieve balance. Just as an ecosystem adapts to changes through intelligent evolution, societies develop paradigms, principles, and frameworks to guide how we build relationships, communities, and institutions that operate at nested scales. The better we leverage complexity in systems, the more successful we will be at regenerating resources for more equitable distribution.

Capitalism is a powerful engine of economic growth, but it also creates inequality. Our approach? Co-design systems where community well-being is prioritized for stakeholders across the ecosystem. This kind of coordinated strategy works to identify reciprocal actions and acknowledges the existence of multiple pathways toward a shared future. When viewed through this lens, business success and healthy competition can align with what is best for companies and communities.

To be a future architect is to work tirelessly on integrating interior and exterior notions of a beautiful world. Transcending political, socioeconomic, and cultural limitations requires individuals to have the personal tools for inner development and self-actualization alongside expanded core competencies of empathy and equity.

Collaboration may be a tired buzzword, but very few people know how to co-exist peacefully, let alone work together effectively. In order to collectively design just, equitable, and regenerative systems, we need to continuously hone our ability to increase the quality of our interactions in any group setting, as the capacity for co-creation is directly proportional to group cohesion. This also means having the hard conversations that are often glossed over.

One of our co-creation projects from 2020 explored the future of blackness through the lens of Octavia Butler’s works. We launched the project online rather than live due to pandemic restrictions. Traveling the Interstitium with Octavia Butler premiered at Sundance and garnered significant visitor interest and press visibility.

GoFA members screened and exhibited multiple projects and participated in thought leadership panels on numerous subjects at the 2021 Sundance Festival.

Created and hosted by award-winning journalist Farai Chideya, Our Body Politic is unapologetically centered on reporting on not just how women of color experience the major political events of today, but how they're impacting those very issues. We regularly participated in a segment focused on creative foresight.

Co-created by GoFA members, and in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation, the FoodxFilm Festival aims to address the future of food both in terms of scarcity and abundance with an eye toward building sustainability, fairness, and systems transformation.

For Freedoms, The Wide Awakes, GoFA, and 10+ other organizations united to raise over $250k, modeling new horizons of ecosystem funding through a joint Kickstarter campaign.

As a Shared Future, AI for the People went from concept to reality in a relatively short period of time — team staffed, operation funded, business model prototyped — thanks to the incredible dot-connecting power within the GoFA community of practice.

We partnered with the LA Music Center to facilitate a co-creation program that catalyzes the imagination and innovation of artists, residents, and other stakeholders to design ideas for the future of culture in Los Angeles.

Seven GoFA members joined up to lead an AI Symposium with the College of Arts at the University of Florida, the first “AI University” with ownership of the 2nd most powerful supercomputer in the US.

We launched an application process for GoFA members to apply to be a Futurist in Residence and successfully positioned one member at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2022.