Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Brands that build robust Brand Universes are first movers and always have one foot in the now, the other into the future. They welcome both horizontal and vertical expansion and think big. They’ve built the foundations of their brand so strong, know themselves so well, that venturing into uncharted territory isn’t perceived as a risk, but serves as... See more
Christopher Morency • What Even Is a Brand Universe?
We live in a time where, in the words of social theorist Roberto Unger, we are governed by people who ‘confuse conformism with realism’.6
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Climate activists can help us avoid the trap of “platform determinism”—that is, the risk of fetishizing the platforms as mythically powerful actors, instead of centering the choices made by the humans who design the platforms. Such activists also bring expertise in movement building: they know how to put pressure on investors and companies, and how... See more
Holly Jean Buck • Decarbonization as a Service
the pandemic has merely accelerated a years-long descent into negation and sensory deprivation, a “desire for nothingness” that embodies the exhaustion of optimism and the embrace of nihilism.
Shannon Mattern • How to Map Nothing
every organizer is an activist, but not every activist is an organizer.
Kelly Hayes • Let This Radicalize You
if education doesn’t help young people find their place in the world, then really what is it for if they don’t know themselves and the world and how those things fit together better?’
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
The Wide Awakes are a group of artists and activists who created an open source network for politically engaging art and experiences, all of which are released under the Wide Awakes name. This has produced diverse projects like a mobile soup kitchen, public art installations, parties, and activist campaigns by a wide group of people sharing... See more
Yancey Strickler • Rethinking labels: the origins of Metalabel
Or maybe we should just give up entirely on optimism or pessimism—we have to do this work no matter how we feel about it. So by force of will or the sheer default of emergency we make ourselves have utopian thoughts and ideas.