Yan Liang

	
Software Engineer

Yan is exploring the future of media and collective storytelling with an artificial intelligence companion.

media FUTURES

DISTRICT 6

ABOUT YAN

Yan is a software engineer who's always thinking about how systems shape human behavior and connection. To Yan, civic culture is the invisible infrastructure that determines whether strangers become neighbors, whether public spaces feel inviting or alienating, and whether residents feel like passive consumers or active co-creators of their environment. It's what happens in the spaces between - between buildings, between people, between ideas and action.

INTERESTS

Software Engineering, Urban Planning, Storytelling

VISION

A city with more walkable, people-first public spaces where neighborhoods feel genuinely connected - not just physically accessible, but socially inviting.

Future Cast

Sketching the Future of San Francisco

FutureCast is a two-hour participatory session where a small group of San Francisco residents writes, records, and produces a podcast from 25 years in the future, then releases it as a real public episode.

You'll world-build with live AI and actual climate data, write news segments in small groups, and record in-studio.

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