Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
there’s one social network that is deceptively reliant on Pride: Strava. Strava lets athletes show off how far they biked or how far they ran. (Or, in certain cases, the cool shapes they drew with their biking or running route.)
Rex Woodbury • The Seven Deadly Sins of Consumer Technology
With a global focus on a deeper and more sensitive understanding of consumers comes the prerequisite to also understand the structures in which they operate. For example, understanding how spaces are designed, the significance of images people are exposed to, or how objects communicate meaning through design. This is the operating system which all... See more
Matt Klein • The Radical Potential of Semiotics & Cultural Strategy
Side (1) of the triangle is cultural violence, which speaks to harmful norms or beliefs (for example: “immigrants are going to steal our jobs”) that can help make direct or structural violence seem justified. (2) Structural violence is systemic harm, and therefore comes from institutions or bodies of power, be it government (ie: policy like... See more
Religiously Blonde • How Religion Can Be Used to Build a New Future
In a still-raging pandemic and cascade of atrocities, there’s a governmental and cultural push to rush through grief, to get back to business and move on. A cultural “correction” of time, to get back on the “right track.”
Annika Hansteen-Izora • Time is Water
the concept of health has been conflated with normality and productivity, and of how disablement and illness have actually increased, under the material relations of capitalism.
Robert Chapman • Empire of Normality
“In design for emergence, the designer assumes that the end-user holds relevant knowledge and gives them extensive control over the design. Rather than designing the end result, we design the user’s experience of designing their own end result.
Thomas Klaffke • Visualizing Minimalist Design
In the process of construction and deconstruction, knowledge develops in immediately contiguous spaces—that is, along the adjacent possible edges, both inside and outside of a knowledge network structure. To think curiously, then, is to inaugurate that organic process of actualizing adjacent epistemic possibilities.
Perry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett • Curiosity and Networks of Possibility
There are many reasons a body might feel anxious.
Sometimes it's biochemistry. Sometimes it's old trauma still cycling through the nervous system. Sometimes it's a medical condition that needs tending. And sometimes, sometimes, it's the accurate perception of a world that asks too much and offers too... See more
aileyjolieinstagram.comI’m going to settle for small, random stabs of extreme interestingness – moments of intense awareness of the things I’m about to lose, and of gladness that they exist