Jared Joiner

Founder

Jared is exploring youth-centered civic spaces through artifacts from the future.

Media FUTURES

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ABOUT JARED

Jared has worked across public education, philanthropy, technology, and community-building, with a consistent through-line: bridging worlds that don’t naturally speak to each other. He is drawn to building civic life that feels accessible, relational, and real, especially for young people who are too often excluded from shaping the systems that affect them most.

INTERESTS

Social Futures, Youth as Designers, Technology

VISION

San Francisco is a city where young people don’t just inherit civic systems, but help design them. Their ideas, stories, and experiments are treated as essential inputs to the city’s shared future.

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The Future of Youth Third Spaces

In this activation, SF high schoolers pick up artifacts from 2046: fragments from two possible futures, one where youth-centered spaces for storytelling and civic life flourished, and one where they collapsed. Students become detectives and authors — piecing together what happened, then designing what they'd build instead. The activation produces a large-format map of where those spaces exist and are absent across SF today, and a set of youth-designed prototypes for the spaces that could exist tomorrow.

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