Inside SEED CLUB

Ana Roman 

Founder of Sonic Cyberfeminism Netwerk, independent workshop facilitator, teaching artist and creative technologist. My work has led me to lecture and facilitate workshop performances at MIT Media Lab, NYU Clive Davis, Berklee College of Music and Futures Factory x Google Creators Lab. My ongoing research in Sonic Cyberfeminism and algorithmic bias forms the core of my practice. As a DJ and producer, I’ve recently performed at Sonar Music Festival and Refraction Festival, and have been featured in DJ Magazine and Mixmag.

What are you currently obsessing over? Right now, I’m obsessing over slow AI, sonic cyberfeminism, ancestral AI, future ancestral technologies, digital archiving, the Arca app, the Cosmos app, data feminism and the concepts I went over at ITP NYU last month on How To Build a Healing Machine: AI’s Identity Crisis. And the current blogs/Substacks I’m currently obsessed with: The Archive Society, The Digital Body and As Slow As Possible.

What’s next on your agenda? I’ll be teaching the first ever class on the history of electronic music at Julliard in New York City this June. 

A thought for the future? That raves and club spaces become free autonomous zones or community safe spaces for affinity groups, as well as hubs for skill-building and knowledge-sharing. Additionally, that we move away away from “pay to play” models of community participation.

Noelle Weaver

I am proudly Gen X. I have been invested in the world of trends since 1993 when I discovered that “cool hunting” was actually a profession. Since then, I’ve worked in advertising, start-ups, insights, consumer research agencies and recently started my own thing, TransformationX5, that is aimed at helping independents tap into future-facing strategies for business growth.

What are you currently obsessing over? The book Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert. Its release comes at a crucial time in America when conservatives are trying to redefine feminine identity.

Is there a person or project you’d like to spotlight? I live about an hour from NYC, in black dirt farm country. Rise & Root Farm is a five-acre cooperative run by four women who are intergenerational, multiracial, and LGBTQ. I love that people from diverse communities have come together to build a more equitable food system—one that supports its community and recognizes the healing power of food.

A thought for the future? Back on November 19th, Pluto entered Aquarius, where it will remain until 2043. This marks the beginning of a new cycle focused on community, progress and innovation. We’re just at the beginning – and I’m here for all the (re)imagining it invites.

Carolin Meyer

I’m an interdisciplinary artist and DJ currently based in London. I’m exploring the embodied experience of transracial adoption at birth (from Kurdish Yazidi to German) by tracing the contours of broader fields of inquiry, such as (dis)embodiment, identity, racialisation and techno-social transformations.

What are you currently obsessing over? Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World (2023) is an intelligent and expansive book that really helps make sense of our current moment. I listened to it on Audible at first, as its depth felt a bit overwhelming, but ended up getting the paperback as well so I could revisit it and take notes. Klein’s writing is grounded in rigorous research, as well as humour and empathy. Each chapter offers so many insights, such as the latent fascism in us all, and how some people, our “mirror world” doppelgangers, became consumed by conspiracy theories and why.

Is there a person or project you’d like to spotlight? Olivia Melkonian and her workshops on sound archiving highlight how, in the face of genocide and oppression, preserving the sounds of one’s heritage becomes a deeply political act – a powerful form of resistance and reclamation.

What’s next on your agenda? Hopefully, a PhD focusing on sound, affect and German migration. Otherwise, I’ll keep creating, thinking and working against what Naomi Klein calls “the latent fascism in all of us.” 

Alice Jasmine Crippa

I split time between Chicago, Venice, Lisbon and São Paulo, running projects that bring people together across barriers we’ve created for ourselves. I craft moments that make people feel a little transformed – whether that’s through food, art or workshops, to get them out of their heads and into their bodies. I love helping organisations uncover futures they can truly build toward – not just talk about.

What are you currently obsessing over? I can’t stop thinking about creating a “Worktools Library” in my neighbourhood – a place where people borrow drills instead of books, and learn from each other how to fix their stuff or public space issues. I’m tired of the assumption that only men know how to build and repair. I want to see my neighbours (especially women) discover the power that comes from making and fixing, from not having to call someone every time something breaks. There’s something powerful about a community that knows how to take care of itself. 

Is there a person or project you’d like to spotlight? Jess Jorgensen and her Sporesight project – a collective foresight initiative inspired by fungi networks and their remarkable capabilities. She’s spent years immersed in mycology, collaborating with hundreds of experts, startups and researchers to translate fungal intelligence into new strategic frameworks for regenerative futures. What fascinates me is how this work reimagines collaboration beyond extractive models by mimicking how mushrooms create resilient, interconnected systems. As someone equally captivated by biological systems as models for cultural change, I can’t wait to contribute. Her approach perfectly illustrates how deep observation of nature can transform how we design for collective futures.

A thought for the future? I want to help more people use their whole bodies to figure out the future. We’ve gotten so trapped in our heads and spreadsheets that sometimes it feels like we’ve forgotten how much wisdom lives in our hands, our guts, our movements. I’ve watched rooms full of sceptical executives completely transform when they physically step into possible futures instead of just talking about them. These aren’t fluffy techniques – they break open conversations that have been stuck for years. My goal is to make body-thinking and future prototyping feel as necessary as AI has become, because I’ve seen how they help people make better choices for their business and for everything else they care about. 

What do you want to get out of SEED CLUB? I was craving to meet people who get excited about cultural signals that typically go unnoticed. Reading Protein’s content felt like encountering dozens of different vibes – distinct from my own, yet somehow familiar. I needed a space where I could throw half-formed thoughts into the mix and have them caught, elevated and challenged, not dropped.

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