Welcome to Fam Signal.
A new publication from Fam Studio, exploring the edges of what is shaping the lives of kids and families in the next decade.
These are some of the most transformative years in human history. We’ll need a roadmap to understand how the youngest among us will be affected. We’ll need tools to help kids and the people who care for them navigate change. And we must make sure that everyone – regardless of age – can play a part in creating our shared future.
Fam Signals will dive into this mysterious time we live in. We’ll explore topics from the role technology in play, to the future of education, work, and home. From regenerative education to circular toy development. From co-living solutions and co-parenting communities, to the latest research on awe and connecting to nature.
Through research, science, technology, play, finance, education, home, parenting, health and culture, we will curate clues that can lead us into more positive, harmonious futures with our fellow humans, other species, and the planet.
Fam Signals is the publication we desperately want for ourselves.
About Fam Studio
Fam Studio is a research and design practice that develops play-led technologies, learning content, and planet-friendly experiences. We use the power of design and futures thinking to help create a world where every family can thrive in uncertain times, whoever and wherever they are.
We partner with social innovators, designers, policymakers, and business leaders helping to shape the everyday experiences of children and families. And we work with various mediums: from digital games to physical products, from learning frameworks to collaborative AI tools. All helping to co-create a better future for kids and families.
Is Fam Signals for you?
Fam Signals is for everyone working to shape the everyday experiences of children and families.
Are you:
Creating experiences for kids, young people, and families out in nature, or with emerging technologies?
Innovating in a business that serves kids and families, wondering what you can do to make more of a difference in your customers’ lives?
A designer, curator, or culture shaper, looking to interpret shifting trends and better use your creativity and skills to help the next generation thrive?
An educator, working to re-imagine learning for your students?.
A funder bringing biodiversity or climate action to the next generation, or making high-quality play, learning, childcare, or other family supports more accessible for everyone?
A policymaker seeking fresh inspiration and practical ideas to support kids and families?
Leading equity, diversity & inclusion or environmental initiatives in your organisation, and looking for ways to make these more relevant to families and young people?
You might have years of experience or just be starting out.
You might be a cross-functional cross-disciplinary super-connector generalist, or a specialist creating change in an expert niche.
You might have a big public profile, or be working behind the scenes.
If you’re helping to shape a world where all kids and families thrive, no matter who and where they are – Fam Signals is for you.
Why subscribe and join the Fam Signals community?
By subscribing to Fam Signals, you’ll become a founding member of a movement to help all kids and families navigate the challenges of today and tomorrow through creativity, design, and futures thinking.
You’ll receive actionable inspiration and opportunities to connect with a diverse, forward-thinking community of innovators and practitioners working to make a difference in the lives of kids and families.
Through intersectional dialogues, interviews with leading thinkers and practitioners, storytelling, open threads, flash fiction and more, Fam Signals will support you – our readers and contributors – to:
Think in new ways about your role in creating opportunities for young people and families to thrive
Equip you to make use of systems and design thinking approaches
Challenge you to think longer-term and work across sectors to solve problems together
Explore your own connection to humanity, nature, and body, mind and heart, to inform and inspire your work.
We are united by our courage to go to the edges of the huge shifts shaping the lives of kids and families in the most profound ways, diving deep into our personal worldviews, sharing our fears, listening to new and diverse perspectives, and understanding new science and the old wisdom.
We are united by our vision for regenerative change for kids and families, and the grit to make it happen.
Please consider joining us.
