Jordan Fitzgerald

Founder of Afrodrft

Using the medium of pancakes, Jordan is exploring the possibilities of where our community could be in both the near and far future, by exploring the mundane.

media FUTURES

Oakland

ABOUT JORDAN

Jordan is the founder Afrodrft, a multidisciplinary creative team building infrastructure for community collaboration around one animating question: "What If?" This start-up addresses the impact of innovation on communities and small businesses, using a combination of art, design, and strategy to help the public navigate the future and develop new ideas in grassroots thinking and uncertainty. Originally from Memphis, Tennessee and now rooted in Oakland, Jordan recently completed his MFA in Design and MBA in Design Strategy from the California College of the Arts. He is a proud Memphian and a lover of the Bay Area.

INTERESTS

Media Futures, Green Futures, Social Futures, Community Design Thinking, Innovation X Authentic Community Engagement, Speculative Design, Futures Literacy, Graphic Design, Industrial Design

VISION

To be part of ensuring that the spirit of innovation serves everyone who calls this city home and radiates outward to communities that need new approaches to shared challenges.

The future of pancakes

What Could Tomorrow Taste Like?

This pancake is from the future. Attendees make their own assumptions and ideas about how a trend, event, or innovation led to this new pancake. The Future Mundane explores ideas and innovations that may not be perceived as world-changing, but could play a grand role in changing the way society moves.

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