Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
While scientific progress, then, proceeds by curiously exploring adjacent possibilities, preference is given to work closely tied to existing science and conducted by a privileged subset of scientists.
Perry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett • Curiosity and Networks of Possibility
we wanted to break the legacy paradigm where research too often sits static; we wanted to hold ourselves accountable to turning passive reporting into forward motion that could result in products, services, and concepts that would bring us closer to the better future we’d discovered
Fancy • Multiplayer Futures
“ This century does not dehumanize us. It disinhabits us.
On one side, humans are redefining their relationship with their own bodies. From germ theory (1860) to GLP-1 drugs (2023), we have moved from understanding to administration.
The body is no longer a temple; it’s a startup chasing optimization, hacking itself for efficiency.
Thomas Klaffke • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #109
The future does not fit in the containers of the past.
Rishad Tobaccowala • Six Keys to Change.
In a pure sense, what is ‘normal’ shouldn’t matter very much at all. What is widespread in our community is often wrong and what is currently considered odd might actually be quite wise. But however much we know this intellectually, we are profoundly social creatures; millions of years of evolution have shaped our brains so as naturally to give a
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
Moving beyond "we brief, you deliver" to collaborative intelligence creation.
zoe scaman • The Work
there’s vital work needed to develop new approaches to conceptualising, discussing, debating, and mitigating risk in urban prototypes. For the same reason, our students need to be able to swim in a transdisciplinary pond that mixes design, law, and policy.