SENSE

Research begins with conditions in motion. It traces cultural patterns as they accumulate, circulate, and sediment across political, spatial, temporal, and synthetic environments. Quantum Culture gathers these inquiries through essays, conversations, field notes, and foresight, offering orientation within complexity rather than certainty.

Sense-making ・ Reframing・ Artistic Direction ・ Reconnaissance ・ Early diagnostics ・ Naming ・

The Kalei Tribe, as imagined by Samar Younes, part of her Future Anecstors quantum crafted series.

Quantum Culture essay titled “Tech Magic: Spellcraft for the Digital Jinn” exploring digital spirituality and cultural memory for Creative Quest book #magic edition.

Jewelry Trend Report 2027 spread featuring Samar Younes’ work on Quantum Adornment and transcultural pattern futures.

SENSE

"Perception before form."

Quantum Culture essay titled “Quantum Narrative Foresight,” published in Compass magazine 'Futures of Creativity' issue by the Association of Professional Futurists (APF).

SENSING LIBRARY

Sensing, articulating, and reframing emerging cultural conditions.

Quantum Culture: Field Notes

Substack essays, short-form writing, ongoing cultural sensing

Beyond Dark Mode: Why Nature's Rebellion is the Ultimate Cultural Hack

Quantum Culture Essay: “What Beirut’s Accidental Forests Taught Me About Undomesticated Futures”

CULTURAL MYCELIUM: MAPPING THE TRUE FLOWS OF CREATIVE VALUE

Quantum Culture Essay: “Recalculating Debts When Cultures, Not Countries, Demand Payment”

Quantum Mutations: Identity Beyond the Binary

Quantum Culture Essay: “Existing in superposition while systems demand binary states”

Quantum Culture is a substack publication by Samar Younes where she tracks how entangled thinking functions as survival tech- refracting ancestral, ecological, and artisanal ways of knowing through Quantum Craft™. It is a way of understanding how realities compose together across time, geographies, belief systems, aesthetics, and technologies.

Homepage of Quantum Culture Substack by SAMARITUAL, a transmission platform exploring lo-tek intelligence infiltrating hi-tek systems through essays, field notes, and cultural diagnostics.

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Cover image for the Quantum Culture essay “When Connection Became Contraband,” examining severance economies and anti-fragile connection protocols..

Independent Writing *

Future Ancestors: Quantum Craft as Transcultural Solidarity Technology by 2050

Quantum Craft as Solidarity Infrastructure - Human Futures (Oct 2025)

Written for: SPUR Magazine | Geraldine Wharry's Tomorrow Column (Guest) | December 2025

School of Critical Design | Nature’s Hostile Takeover: What Beirut’s Trees Taught Me About Real Rebellion | 2025

School of Critical Design | Very-Human-Prompts #1: REBELLION (Interior Spread) | 2025

Compass (APF) | Chromatic Diaspora (Interior Spread) | December 2024

Compass (APF) | Chromatic Diaspora: Echoes of Future Ancestors | December 2024

Quantum Culture: 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.