Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
anthropologist Anna Tsing’s ideas about ruins as fertile ground for new life: ruins are places that support the unruly, entwined strains of existence, proving that life can thrive long after apocalypse occurs.
Johanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
Gen Z and
Design is hope made visible.
Make Hope Visible
To be human is to self-transcend. The person who steps through the looking glass is never the same when they return.
Max Anton Brewer • The Mirror of Language
Our earliest ability to think about the possible is in place well before we have a concept of who we are, what we value, and what talents, abilities, or potential we bring to bear in the service of our bigger plans and goals. From the start of life, assessments of what is possible are instrumental in guiding actions and decisions; they tell us
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Art, as Bloch said, is a laboratory of possibilities. Indeed, other worlds become possible as and insofar as we curiously reformulate the networks in our heads—and in our hearts.
Perry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett • Curiosity and Networks of Possibility
Because of the nature of the ‘wicked’ challenges now faced by societies worldwide—and almost all urban challenges are wicked—there is no state of perfect understanding.
Patrick Tanguay • Conscientious Urban Technology
Social media seems to have this intrinsic character of convergence. I talked about that in a previous newsletter. The idea that once you become a part of a digital community, your very participation in that community further optimizes the platform’s convergence upon a single set of ideas, idioms, modes, or what have you.
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a stunted social imagination undermines our ability to adapt.