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NEW INC and Ace Hotel New York Present A Somewhere Good Spiral with Naj Austin, Johann Diedrick, Van Newman, and Annika Hansteen-Izora

NEW INC and Ace Hotel New York are happy to host the minds behind Somewhere Good for an introduction to the world-building and thought process behind their highly anticipated iOS app.

For CEO Naj Austin and her team, current online spaces don’t just lack imagination, they’re rarely designed to consider one’s full identity. Somewhere Good is a social platform for intimate community conversations, a new way to come together in shared curiosity, dreaming and play. All interactions happen within worlds – quirky, expansive audio spaces that refresh every 24 hours. The Somewhere Good team thinks about it like a kickback with the homies – some of the best conversations can't last forever and you can't wait to go back.

A “Somewhere Good Spiral” builds from the team’s internal practice of posing every decision as a question first, allowing curiosity to guide discussions like, “When do Black people feel safe?” and “What is consent in the age of the follower?”

This evening’s “Somewhere Good Spiral” centers the process of building digital products, from the ground up, through the team’s various identity lenses and experiences. The event will also feature a sneak peek of the app and a Q&A with the team.

Somewhere Good is set to launch in the Apple store later this month. Learn more about Somewhere Good.

ASL interpretation will be provided on site.

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