Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
They are spaces of intergenerational learning, they’re spaces of kind of civic engagement. And also where other social services fall short because of neglect and underfunding. Public libraries often have to pick up the slack there. That’s not something we’re typically going to ask an archive to do. So just the fact that there is so much that... See more
Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab • Shannon Mattern - multispecies worldbuilding lab
we are now deep into an era in which the unintended consequences — the so-called externalities — of all the world-changing human creations that have resulted from our focus on the discrete, have become so pervasive and encompassing that it’s fair to wonder whether this historical focus on the discrete might be fundamentally problematic, inherently... See more
Medium • The Ecosystem Hypothesis
you must be able to live inside of your vision in such a way that you can communicate its emotional essence, its core truth, to the immediate world around you.
Yancey Strickler • When Your Purpose Is 1-of-1
When you are grounded there is no need to look up or down. You are where you are. You know what’s important and worth your time and energy. This doesn’t mean you won’t have highs and lows, perhaps sometimes barely holding staying above water. But it does mean that you’ll have the skills to navigate them.
Brad Stulberg • The Constant Restlessness You Feel Has a Name
Easier, then, to strip the art of these larger contexts and references from the art, which conveniently also makes it easier to sell.
Jessa Crispin • Culture, Digested: The Worst Book I Read This Year
If we lose faith in the future, we are likely to do less to make a better future happen. In this way, fatalism can, indeed, become fate.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
While not-for-profit projects do exist, it seems increasingly rare for participatory worlds to avoid commercialization, especially when attention is the primary currency of the internet.
Dirt • Dirt: Worldbuilding, Pt. 2
these visions deliberately exclude anything that might be perceived as an obstacle or that seem outside a very narrow norm, from regulatory impediments to the inconvenience of other people. This characterizes the worldview of those who can only see a future that continues to be designed for the car.
Medium • There Are No Cars in Wakanda
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