Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Being wrong often is the only way to be right – especially when you’re dealing with complex systems. This – in a nutshell – is the evolutionary organization thesis.
orca.mirror.xyz • Evolutionary Organizations
The situation is bad, yes, okay, enough of that; we know that already. Dystopia has done its job, it’s old news now, perhaps it’s self-indulgence to stay stuck in that place any more. Next thought: utopia. Realistic or not, and perhaps especially if not.
Kim Stanley Robinson • Dystopias Now | Commune
the shared ability, cultivated from an early age, to explore the possible future is a vital muscle for any democracy—and one that needs to be exercised early and often.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Plants and gardens are an important, and often undervalued, gateway drug. Wonderground is a place of storytelling; of irreverence, intelligence, curiosity and connection. It draws equally from culture and horticulture, art and science, beauty and botany. It’s a garden, though it’s taken me a while to see this.
Wonderground • Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care
This means not just one large pharmacy or baker or police station, for example, but many small ones, a more dispersed distribution pattern mimicking what network designers would call ‘redundancy’ (if one goes down, there’s another within reach.) In the context of cities, that kind of effectiveness also generates community, health, diversity, and... See more
Medium • 11: Post-traumatic urbanism and radical indigenism
In one of our early tests, we had a “weekend mode.” That meant that the app was not available on the weekend, and instead there was a screen that told users “we are not here. Enjoy your experience outside of this app.”
Katja Vujić • Is Somewhere Good the Future of Social Media?
At the Institute for the Future we believe that the value of futures thinking is not in predicting the future (something no one can do), but in imagining possibilities of what the future could be. And if there was ever a time we needed such imagination, it is today.
walkerart.org • The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
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