Cultural Strategy
Keely Adler and
Cultural Strategy
i am very grateful everyone who came to my talk at fwb fest and those who helped me out with it recently. in some ways this talk took 6 years to put together.
the basic theory of "lifestyles," identity, and brands was there by 2016, but i was missing a strong notion of culture
Any given culture generally moves between 4 stages: Entrenchment, Tension, Exploration and Transformation
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what would it mean for brands to stop pointing to culture, and to start being it? To do so, they would have to go far beyond marketing, to offer meaningful modes of participation. Is it even possible for companies to be in service of something greater than themselves?
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One important thing to remember throughout all of these phases is that ideas, not technology, impact culture the most. With AI advancements rattling nearly every industry, it’s easy to forget that technology can only express itself within the boundaries of the culture it’s born into.
Jasmine Bina • The 4 Phases of Culture Brands
As futurists we look for signals—small, often weird things. They are usually new technologies, new behaviors, new narratives that don’t fit into the mainstream, but that are often precursors of important transformations. We then try to discern the larger patterns that these signals herald to understand where they might lead ten or more years down
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