CULTIVATOR RITUAL
Tending, training, and transmission over time. Capacities formed through long cultivation. The slow work of developing perception, judgment, and compositional intelligence. Quantum Craft™ transmitted through gatherings, labs, and sustained formation. Growing conditions where emergence becomes possible.
Cultivation ・ Transmission ・Tending・ Capacity-building ・ Training ・
Cultivation ・ Transmission ・Tending・ Capacity-building ・ Training ・
CULTI
"Capacity requires time."
FORMATION LIBRARY
FORMATION LIBRARY
Quantum Craft Pedagogies
Structured formation through IMAGINAOLGY, cultivation cycles, and embodied learning environments.
Samar Younes working on a soft sculpture with textile materials with Olivier Borde within Quantum Craft practice, exploring embodied cultural memory and Silk Road entanglement.
Colorful collage with elements representing technology, nature, and art, including a woman with traditional jewelry, animals, a moon, and scientific imagery, with bright text reading 'Quantum Craft' and the subtitle 'Lo-tech intelligence inside hi-tech systems'.
A group of women sitting around a glass table participating in a craft workshop, with a presenter demonstrating fabric folding and a screen displaying a slide about ancestral memories in the background.
Participants mapping transcultural narratives with Samar Younes during a Quantum Craft workshop at the Dubai Future Forum
Presentation slides outlining Quantum Craft methodology and entangled intelligence systems.
IMAGINAOLGY poster mapping participant disciplines and cultural lineages within Quantum Craft workshop.
IMAGINAOLGY poster visualizing participant geographies and backgrounds from Quantum Craft Lab session.
IMAGINAOLGY curriculum poster outlining articulatory intelligence and ethno-aesthetic acumen within Quantum Craft pedagogy.
IMAGINAOLGY data poster summarizing the concept on 'the art of collaborating with AI' and formation outcomes.
Presentation slide from Quantum Craft lecture on textile futures
Collaborative studio session within Quantum Craft practice focused on lineage, cartography and Future Ancestors
IMAGINAOLGY slide visualizing the cover page from Quantum Craft formation session.
IMAGINAOLGY bespoke session on Textile Future incubated by Samar Younes's Quantum Craft Lab.
A Quantum Craft Session Slide mapping ancestral, ecological, artisanal, and synthetic intelligence systems.
Quantum Craft Lab framework slide mapping imagination, intelligence types, and interaction principles.
Quantum Craft methodology slide presenting three core approaches to cultural analysis and recomposition.
Quantum Craft systems diagram illustrating transcultural intelligence operating in productive tension.
Cover of “Textile Futures Playbook: Crafting Fashion Narratives with AI” developed within the Quantum Craft Lab
Donna Haraway quote on binary systems presented during Quantum Craft Lab session on material intelligence and weaving metaphors.
Women Who Future(s) event poster featuring Samar Younes on Quantum Culture and transcultural intelligence.
Quantum Craft slide exploring textile pattern recognition and cultural symbolism.
Samar Younes leading Quantum Craft formation session with participants.
Title slide from Textile Society of America 2024 Symposium presentation by Nandini Gopalarathinam and Samar Younes on generative AI, archives, and textile futures.
Slide from Textile Society of America (TSA) 2024 presentation detailing decolonial and ethical approaches to generative AI in textile design.
Pedagogies are developed within the Quantum Craft Lab through multiple strands, including IMAGINAOLGY- an experimental current generating formats, protocols, and transmission models.
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Quantum Craft Talks
Public speaking, keynotes, lectures.
Samar Younes presenting on jewelry, technology, and ancestral intelligence during public lecture and Jewelry trendbook 2027 review at Vicenzaoro
Panelists and facilitator during Doha Debates discussion on contemporary art in the age of AI.
Slide with a question about life experiences and institutional responses, featuring traditional African attire and artwork on the right side.
Panel discussion at ALBA x WeDesign Beirut 2025 following keynote on Hybrid Intelligence, featuring Samar Younes and co-panelists.
Keynote slide on hybrid material–digital entanglement presented at ALBA x WeDesign Beirut 2025.
Future Ancestors portraits commissioned by Acosta Institute, presented by Samar Younes at ALBA WeDesign Beirut 2025 to explore lineage and material–digital entanglement.
Samar Younes lecturing on Quantum Craft and transcultural feminist intelligence for media students at LAU Beirut and the Arab Institute for Women.
Samar Younes speaking at Shift 2 Feminist Lab forum panel in Beirut on AI, bias, and digital voice.
Samar Younes slide from her Quantum Craft lecture at LAU and the Arab Institute for Women on AI and transcultural feminist intelligence.
Schedule of events on ALBA x WeDesign Beirut 2025 event on Hybrid Intelligence featuring Samar Younes.
Poster for ALBA x WeDesign Beirut 2025 event on Hybrid Intelligence featuring Samar Younes.
ALBA x WeDesign Beirut 2025 program poster for Hybrid Intelligence
Samar Younes presenting “Quantum Adornment: Interface Technologies Beyond the Binary” featured in Trendvision Jewelry Forecast 2027 at Vicenzaoro.
Samar Younes with fellow speakers at Vicenzaoro following presentation on Quantum Adornment.
United Nations AI Futures Forum promotional flyer listing Samar Younes among invited speakers.
International Retail Design Conference (IRDC) 2023 presentation by Samar Younes on AI’s role in the future of retail design.
Acosta Institute Healing-Centered Futures Summit featuring Samar Younes speaking on Hybrid Intelligence and lineage-based systems
ALBA EarthHub 2024 event poster for Quantum Craft lecture featuring portrait of Samar Younes by Johanne Issa.
Samar Younes delivering Quantum Craft lecture at ALBA EarthHub 2024 on material memory and planetary futures.
ALBA EarthHub 2024 lecture slide on cultural cartography within Quantum Craft framework.
Group of people in a meeting or presentation room, sitting and standing around a table with drinks, looking at a speaker and a presentation on a large screen.
Samar Younes speaking on AI and bias at Shift 2 Feminist Lab forum.
Vicenzaoro 2025 panel discussion featuring Samar Younes on jewelry and the quantum age.
ALBA EarthHub 2024 promotional poster featuring Quantum Craft work on material–digital entanglement by Samar Younes.
ALBA EarthHub 2024 event poster showcasing Quantum Craft installation on material memory and hybrid intelligence
ALBA EarthHub 2024 event poster featuring Samar Younes and her lecture tile "Quantum Craft: Remerging Cultural Heritage Through Hybrid Intelligence"
ALBA EarthHub 2024 event poster featuring Samar Younes presenting Quantum Craft on material memory, retail design, and hybrid intelligence.
Event poster for the UN Day for South South Cooperation on AI Futures Forum featuring Samar Younes AI futures, policy, and cultural impact.
Samar Younes delivering keynote “Crafting Futures: Generative AI’s Role in Designing Tomorrow’s Brand Experiences” at SHOP Marketplace 2024, Cincinnati.
Promotional graphic for NFT NYC 2024 panel “Imagining the Unimagined: The Artistic Revolution Through Generative AI and NFTs,” featuring Samar Younes (Samaritual) and Mike Mongo
Event poster for SHOP Marketplace 2024 featuring Samar Younes’ keynote on generative AI, brand storytelling, and experiential design futures.
Samar Younes leading a multidisciplinary workshop at NYU Design Week 2023 on “Future of Connections: The Third Place,” exploring physical–digital entanglement in design prototyping.
Parsons School of Constructed Environments poster for “Recess // Reset” during NYCxDesign Week, featuring Samar Younes speaking on design futures and AI.
Auditorium presentation of Quantum Craft at ALBA x WeDesign Beirut, exploring systemic insurgency and hybrid intelligence.
IRDC 2023 promotional poster featuring Samar Younes presenting on AI’s impact on retail design and experiential environments.
Quantum Craft™ manifesto poster reading “Lo-tech intelligence inside hi-tech systems,” introducing Samar Younes’ all conditions are material thinking posture.
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Quantum Field Effect
Where Quantum Craft takes root and mutates outward.
SPRING STUDIOS • RGA • GOETHE INSTITUTE • INJAAZ • KANTAR • ANTHROPOLOGIE • FREE PEOPLE • URBN • NIKE • TAPESTRY • RADAR • NYU • ALBA • LAU • PARSONS • CSM • DUBAI FUTURE FOUNDATION • DOHA DEBATES • TEXTILE SOCIETY OF THE AMERICAS •
SPRING STUDIOS • RGA • GOETHE INSTITUTE • INJAAZ • KANTAR • ANTHROPOLOGIE • FREE PEOPLE • URBN • NIKE • TAPESTRY • RADAR • NYU • ALBA • LAU • PARSONS • CSM • DUBAI FUTURE FOUNDATION • DOHA DEBATES • TEXTILE SOCIETY OF THE AMERICAS •
23+
Organizations
3000+
Participants
12+
Countries
Quantum Craft cultivates a distinct cognitive stance: one that refuses disciplinary domestication and operates across layered intelligence systems simultaneously.
TRANSCULTURAL OPERATORS Practitioners trained to read material culture, data systems, and ancestral memory as coexisting intelligence fields rather than separate domains
INSTITUTIONAL INFILTRATORS Individuals embedding post-disciplinary frameworks within corporate, academic, and cultural institutions without surrendering critical complexity
ENTANGLEMENT ARCHITECTS Designers and researchers working at the intersection of synthetic systems and embodied knowledge, collapsing false binaries between AI and craft, modernity and lineage
For institutions seeking deeper entanglement → CONSPIRE
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