Seed & Signal
Supporting communities to imagine and shape the futures they deserve.
About
Seed & Signal™ exists to support communities in imagining, designing, and shaping their own futures through accessible, creative, and participatory approaches.
Seed & Signal is a community-centered futures initiative that helps people imagine and design the futures they deserve. As the nonprofit arm of Point A Studio, Seed & Signal expands access to futures thinking by bringing creative tools—such as storytelling, participatory design, and collective imagination—directly into community spaces.
We make futures work accessible and grounded—connecting long-term possibility to the lived experiences, wisdom, and rhythms of community life. Our programs help people understand change, explore emerging possibilities, and build long-term visions rooted in belonging, place, and community knowledge.
Why This Work Matters
Communities today navigate rapid economic, social, environmental, and technological shifts. Too often, decisions about the future are made without the people who will live with their consequences. Seed & Signal exists to shift that pattern. We help communities build the skills, confidence, and collective capacity to engage with the future—not as something predetermined, but as something they can actively shape.
What We Do
We use participatory futures, strategic foresight, popular education, and creative facilitation to support community-led visioning and long-term thinking. Our work includes:
- Futures Workshops & Labs: Accessible sessions where participants explore signals of change, consider possible futures, and imagine new pathways forward.
- Storytelling & Narrative Work: Projects that help communities tell stories about who they are, what they value, and what futures they want to create.
- Community-Led Visioning & Strategy: Support for organizations, neighborhoods, and coalitions to develop shared visions and actionable next steps.
- Creative & Design-Based Futures: Tools such as speculative design, visual storytelling, and simple prototyping that make future possibilities tangible and engaging.
Across all programs, our goal is to strengthen belonging, agency, and collective imagination.
We provide free or low-cost programs that bring futures thinking into public life by partnering with communities, artists, educators, youth, and grassroots organizations.
Our work helps ensure that underrepresented groups have access to tools that influence the world they will inherit.
Learn More: https://www.point-a.studio/