Future Resources September Newsletter
Future Resources Takeover; Futures Friends São Paulo Meetup; Capsule App launch
Hi👋 If you're new here, *welcome*. I'm Lydia and I work with futures strategy, currently freelancing with consultancies and clients. My focus areas are Global South, gender, sustainability, and youth cultures, but I work with all industries and themes🤓
I work remotely and I'm based in Lisbon, Portugal. Don't hesitate to message me if you're coming to town or if I'm coming to your town.
📍🗺️ My locations for the next months:
Brazil, São Paulo: October 5-18
US, West Coast (California mostly): October 19 - November 2
Portugal, Lisboa: November 7-30
Brazil, São Paulo: December 1-31
FED by Future Resources 🆃🅰🅺🅴🅾🆅🅴🆁
Are you ready for this? Am I even ready for this??
I'll be stepping down from the daily posts on FED by Future Resources WhatsApp community for 5 weeks, and instead handing over this platform to 5 AMAZING women around the world to curate the daily futures pills for you.
Luciana Moletta will continue posting a couple of links every Friday, so Fridays will be a mix of her posts + the weekly guest curator.
In case you haven't seen our Instagram posts, here you can find their LinkedIn profiles and their focus for Future Resources takeover.
Julia Makhalova: Cultural thinking in the world of branding and beyond
Nina Nair: Foresight & Futures industry news, and speculative design projects that have sustainability in their practice
Victória Oliveira: Content, research, innovations and narratives led by women
Shahtaj Nazmeen: Gender Gap in Data
Sandra Mathey: Fashion and Decoloniality
Follow them to learn all about their work and stay tuned by joining the WhatsApp community 👀
Somewhat related to this news is our new Discord💬 server.
Many of you have asked for a place where you could 🗣️chat amongst yourselves, meet people, grow your network and repertoire, collaborate on projects, comment on the news/reports shared on FED, etc. This is the space for this.
I will not be moderating the server - but if someone wants to volunteer to be community manager, I'd love that!
Have fun, be respectful and focus on futures-related topics.
FUTURES FRIENDS SÃO PAULO MEETUP🇧🇷
I'm partnering with
to host the first-ever in-person meetup in São Paulo! Open to Future Friends members and non-members.
Quando: 18 de outubro, quarta-feira, às 19h.
A capacidade do espaço é limitada (e acredito que já ultrapassamos😬), mas caso queira muito ir, envie email para hello@futuresfriends.xyz com seu nome completo e CPF para receber a confirmação e localização.
INTRODUCING CAPSULE APP
I have been secretly😏 contributing with the Capsule team as a curator and trusted beta tester as they developed their amazing new app. This might feel like sponsored content but I honestly wouldn't recommend something I don't actually enjoy.
About Capsule App:
“In a world overwhelmed by clickbait, mainstream narratives, and entertainment-centric news, Capsule stands apart. Our focus is on delivering high-value insights in a digestible and engaging format, creating an exceptional learning experience.”
New (effortless & effective) tool to anticipate emerging change: Newness
You might have joined the launch of Newness (v5) on September 6. If you haven't, here's what you need to know.
Newness is an AI-powered collaborative foresight platform for strategy, innovation, research, and marketing teams to collect signals, contextualize change, identify emerging issues, conduct causal layered analysis, and build new scenarios.
We put together a collaborative cloud platform that allows any team to follow the generic foresight framework and work at scale with large amounts of signals.
They partnered with Future Resources to demonstrate how the platform works. They shared data from FED by Future Resources from January/2023 to September/2023 with their AI, and showed all the features, analyses, and projections it can do. Spoiler alert: it does cut the time and cost it takes to build a global and effective foresight capacity.
Bonus: They have a forever-free account for anyone who wants to join.
Massive shoutout to the growing team who help make Future Resources happen:
Luciana Moletta, the awesome curator of FED by Future Resources Friday futures pills
Sophie Ekwe-Bell, the angel who's updating the FR Notion Repository
Camilly Vitoria and
, the incredible Instagram and LinkedIn duoLucas Mirabella, joining to create an accessibility strategy for FR
🎖️ Shoutout to Maria Beatriz Gonçalves, Natasha Pádua, Meri Asahade, Marco Gregori, and Victória Oliveira who shared great stuff with us this month!
Special thank you to Futurity Systems and Magda Mojsiejuk who have sent me the last two issues of their amazing InTense magazine💕
Access the full Future Resources platform, join FED by Future Resources WhatsApp Community, and consult the Future Resources Notion Repository.
Want to get in touch for questions, comments, consulting, or speaking inquiries?
Email me at lydiacaldana@gmail.com
Connect with me on LinkedIn
My personal Instagram, for pics of my whippet & italian greyhound