Each Wednesday in September, a social designer will present features around meeting strangers—from online platforms to in-person games.

Values to Consider (When Designing Mingling Systems)

• creating lifelong, very close friendships.
• trust — having people be able to open up and be vulnerable to each other very quickly
• rich interactions — playful, creative, joyful, personal, generative, focused, etc.
• finding collaborators

Key Structural Features

Participants in This Theme

Write a short introduction below--your name, how you would like people to connect with you, and anything interesting you’re working on.

• 🧙Jessica Watson Miller

• 🕵🏻‍♂️Joe Edelman

• Stefan Bielski (http://biel.ski/)

• 🦇Benjamin Gabbai

• Victor PIper

• 🐣 Oliver King

• Elliott Bayev

• Alex Warren

• 🧜‍♀️Raine Revere

• 🌖 Alex Kennedy

• 🐼Margaret Amenyo

• Jonathan Rechtman

• Daniel Tabakman

• 🌱 Adam Zeiner

• 🌻 Anne-Lorraine Selke

• 🙋‍♂️ James Baker

• Bilal Ghalib

• wayne harjula

• Frank Lantz

• Chas Wagner

• ♾️ 🎲 Natalia S.

• Éricles Lima

• Colton Dillion

• Peter Limberg

• Kevin DeLand

• Ben Lovenheim

• Sarah McManus

• 🧨 Tyler Alterman [email protected]

• Alf

• Niran Babalola

• Alex de Carvalho

• Lylia Li

• Susan Hasty [email protected]

• Emily Diaz (https://spacemakercollective.com/)

Challenges Presented in This Theme

• September 2 — Azlen Ezra with CozyRooms.xyz (video, gdoc)

  Azlen's challenge goes here

  Ideas for Azlen's Challenge

• September 9 — Joe Edelman with the Human Systems School for Social Design

  • More info on the School for Social Design
  • Ideas for the School for Social Design

  SDC Brainstorming for SSD

• September 16 — Aella with Askhole

  Problem: People talk too much

  SDC Brainstorming for Aella

• September 23 — Dating

  • Challenges:

  SDC Brainstorming

  • Random Ideas before Brainstorming

Sharpening Session

1. 10m Pick your favorite idea (or one of these five)

2. 10m Sketch for 10 min alone. Try to list unintended consequences. 7:50

   Sharpening Workspace

   • [ ] Unintended Consequences
   • [ ] Player types it may not work for
   • [ ] Prior work as warning
   • [ ] Prior work as encouragement
   • [ ] How would you present this
   • [ ] Who could use this?

3. 35m Rest of session like an open mic. Present what you did, get feedback. 8p

   • [ ] Unintended Consequences
   • [ ] Player types it may not work for
   • [ ] Prior work as warning
   • [ ] Prior work as encouragement

4. 15m Breakout rooms to polish and network around the ideas 8:35p

   • Divide up work
     • [ ] How would you present this
     • [ ] Who could use this?
   • Polish and Network

5. 10m Short summaries of work 8:45p