Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Integrity is loyalty to the ambiguity of my own edges, and permission for you to be blurry too. I do not need precision to know myself, or you. I need room for all of our selves to hold counsel.
Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles
If we then fundamentally reorient that around a hugely increased emphasis on biodiversity i.e. not just human-centred design, stretching from the street corners out to the distant fields of agriculture and landscape that support them, we solve for climate, health, social justice, and pandemic simultaneously. That extends the ideas of social life to... See more
Medium • 11: Post-traumatic urbanism and radical indigenism
If our words create our worlds, what becomes possible when we treat language as a material we can shape, rather than a given we must accept?
RADAR • Spells, Vibes, and Thick Imagination
Identifying and defining the hierarchy of mental content, which, in order of increasing value, are: data, information, knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. However, the educational system and most managers allocate time to the acquisition of these things that is inversely proportional to their importance.
Russell Ackoff • The Systems Thinker – A Lifetime of Systems Thinking - The Systems Thinker
The Pluriverse: A World Where Many Worlds Fit
Michael Lewkowitz • Towards a Digital Pluriverse
The idea is that it's a system for imagining and executing big projects that actually works. The theory emerges from the intersection of two maxims.
First, there's William Gibson: "The future is already here—it's just not evenly distributed."
Then, there's William Faulkner: "The past is never dead. It's not even past."
Mashing those together, we get
... See moreEliot Peper • Robin Sloan: Binding the Moon
“Complexity science,” the SFI website explains, “attempts to find common mechanisms that lead to complexity in nominally distinct physical, biological, social, and technological systems.”
Noah Brier • The Complexity Edition
When you start to disentangle production, identity, and the matter of survival from one another, that relationship to doing can become much clearer, especially for those in the spaces of art and craft.
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
social systems and