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Sunday afternoons, the back room of a vegan restaurant on East 6th Street fills with people who share an interest in positive social change & new technology. Four hours later, we've gotten to know each other, explored ideating, & built a tangible project with a team.
We don't curate the guest list. Past weeks brought together a doula, a prompt engineer, a high school teacher, a muralist, & someone restoring old radios. The room simply takes the shape of whoever shows up. One tool we use is Vibecoding: our new capacity, with AI, to build applications & digital projects with natural language in the form of text prompts.
That said, there are many ways to create & create with others.
How the afternoon unfolds: we arrive between 11:30-12 noon, we settle in, we order something, we say hello & start to get to know others in the room.
At noon, someone opens the afternoon, shares something they can't stop thinking about, teaches a concept or a possible solution to a social conundrum, leads us through an activity that might be valuable to us individually & collectively.
Then, we pitch our half-formed projects. Teams form naturally around whatever sparks each person's interest. For the rest of the time, we build, we nosh, & we share what we made.
What we're actually doing: We are practicing prototyping & building new worlds. The world outside is largely playing a finite game, optimizing for extraction, scale, & speed. In this room, we step out of that.
We practice creative attention, trust, & infinite thinking. We focus fiercely on one thing, alongside people who think nothing like us. The work is sitting shoulder to shoulder with erstwhile strangers (who become community members), sharing our imagination, & building something better together.
The relationships that come from this-we call them creationships.
Each week looks a little bit different.
This week #11:
Please try to arrive at noon sharp!
How a Sunday goes
11:30 - doors open, settle in, say hello, order something
12:00 - opening share / activity
12:30 - intros & form projects groups for the day
1:00 - explore, make, create something
3:00 - show-and-tell
You leave inspired, a little changed, & with people you'll see again.
Some things we're making here
Kula - a gifting platform
Vibe Cadaver - an exquisite-corpse game
Kitty Social - a shared fund
Ocean Agentics - a high seas treaty site
NotAmazon - local alternatives
Whoever shows up is who the afternoon is for. The room shapes itself around the people in it. Come as you are.
Hosted by Dear Crisis dearcrisis.com
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