Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
At heart, magic embraces the power that small solidarity networks have to change the world through changing their own perceptions of reality.
Medium • Magic, belief systems + web3
Zero Sum: Modern culture loves to play zero-sum games, where one person wins and everyone else loses. We see this in our sports, politics, and yes, in our careers. Our education systems have been designed around these zero-sum games where the goal is to plug you into the system as a ‘good worker’ in order to keep the corporate machine (and the econ... See more
Ryan Sean Adams • DAOs as Playgrounds for Growth and Development
Given the inherent emergence of futures — both imaginary and realised — imagination infrastructures need to be understood as verbs, not nouns, actions, not things — processes of creation in a constant process of becoming.
Olivia Oldham • Imagination Infrastructure — What Do We Mean?
Neuroaesthetics Design cultural study
Neuroaesthetics explores the impact of aesthetics on our brains and bodies, offering insights into design for feeling, community, transformation, longevity, and belonging in architecture and design.
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a life well-lived means something a little different to almost everyone. So it seems a little funny that the software we use almost every waking hour has the same predetermined goals for all of us in mind.
The Browser Company • Optimizing for Feelings
before the advent of electronic communication, the regulation of information was partly a function of our being bodies in place. Immediacy was structured by place rather than time.
L. M. Sacasas • From Common Sense to Bespoke Realities
While we know that our imaginations shape our sociocultural experience through the creation of worlds, modernity thrives by throwing tight constraints around it, degenerating our ability and capacity to imagine radically new futures into being. This ontological war against possibility is ‘defuturing’ — there are less futures available to us; or put... See more
Will Bull • Building the Infrastructure of Possibility
While e-commerce is accelerating to offer multi-layered experiences for customers and brands, bricks-and-mortar stores are becoming physical bastions of extraordinary, sensorial moments.