COLLABORATION / FUTURES / IDEAS /
COLLABORATION / FUTURES / IDEAS /
A futures practice that manifests in making things with other people.
PROJECTS
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PROJECTS \
TOMMORROW.RADIO
Tomorrow.Radio is a global radio station broadcasting hope. Tuning us all into the possibility that the future might actually be better than today. In fact, we hope it will be brilliant. Hear the voices of real people across the globe who have seen a glimpse of a better future in some small, but locally hopeful way and share your piece of hope too. tomorrow.radio Launched with hyperlocal poster placements and a decentralized media bounty.
Created by: Caitlin Keeley, Fancy, Anna Rose Kerr and RADAR; Funding by JRF
THE CURIOUS HUMAN’S FIELD GUIDE TO THE FUTURE
At RADAR, we’ve been accelerating better futures as a community and so we wrote a book to take that mission out into the world. By thinking about the future together the unimaginable can become the ordinary.
In the Field Guide, you'll find essays, activities, self-reflection, collective imagination, and tools for foresight that can be enjoyed by amateurs and pros alike.
We believe that the future belongs to those who think about it. And we'd love for you to do it with us.
Created by: Keely Adler, Caitlin Keeley, Jay Matthews, Domingo Beta, Fancy & the RADAR Community
Edited by: Brianne Johnson
Published by: Colour Code Printing
PLAY-FULL FUTURES PLAYGROUND
An interactive full-floor experience at the Museum of the Future during Dubai Future Forum inspired by RADAR’s Play-Full Futures Report. Participants reflected on their own relationship with play via our custom Archetype Quiz and then joined collaborative worldbuilding to collectively imagine the future of museums from a more playful mindset.
Concept: Caitlin Keeley; Research: Keely Adler; Artist: Domingo Beta; Team: Sarah Owen, Anna-Rose Kerr; Design: Wilmarie Deetlefs; Community: RADAR
RADICAL STACKS
A platform to activate radical imagination; a public good designed to feel like all the things we love about libraries; and at its heart, an ever-evolving collection of curated stacks aimed at inspiring hope in and accelerating the creation of better futures.
This project is in development, if you’re interested you can learn more at radardao.xyz/radical-stacks
Created by: Keely Adler, Fancy, Caitlin Keeley and RADAR
RADIO.RADAR
A visual radio station pulling directly from RADAR’s Discord channels so the public can tune into our community’s 2024 resolutions. It’s trend forecasting re-imagined as community intention, shared in a vibey stream of content and ideas. radio.radardao.xyz
Created by: Caitlin Keeley, Keely Adler, Fancy and RADAR
SEVERAL HIBERFOLK ARE TYPING
Speculative short fiction cowritten in multiplayer mode. The story follows a community chat on launch day of the hibernet - a huge network of mycelial threads where worldbuilders are linked into a collaborative, universal consciousness.
The narrative was developed through RADAR over multiple collaborative ideation sessions, the world built upon and expanded by each writer’s unique points of view. The characters were role-played by community members, and the piece was collaboratively edited by our core team: Andrea Chen, Alexi Gunner, Emily Howell, Keely Adler and me.
Released as part of the Metalabel, Seed Club and Foster Edition - Several People are Typing, an exploration of the creative potential of collaborations in the age of decentralized media.
Free download and physical edition still available :)
COLLAGING THE FUTURE
Weekly Worldbuilding is an ongoing project to collectively imagine themed futures. Every week in RADAR’s open Discord channels, we explore a theme by sharing signals, considering what ifs, and then collaging that future together with images and imagined headlines from the future.
You can read more about the project here.
Concept: Caitlin Keeley, Keely Adler Collaborators: RADAR
10YFD
10 Years From DAO is a proposal to mint the date a decade away, every day, forever.
To inspire more people to think about and influence the future, there will be a daily auction of the date 10 years from now as an artist designed NFT.
Funds from the sales contribute to a collective treasury that backs projects participating in the future.
The future belongs to those who think about it.
Concept: Caitlin Keeley, Collaborators: Matt and Fancy (RADAR), Artist: DomingoB (RADAR)
INTERSECTIONS
An interactive data-driven installation that launched at Nuit Blanche Toronto. Through data submission and a presence in the space, participants engaged in a deeper sense of connectedness with each other and our city. By re-imagining a map of Toronto, we blurred the lines between neighbourhoods and neighbours.
Digital Artist: Jordan Shaw, Writer: Caitlin Keeley, Digital Designer: Marcelo Luft, Art Director: Josh Day, Project Lead/Strategist: Gabriel Tsang
INKLUSIVE
A custom ink made collaboratively to make real what we believe, that the strongest ideas are written by a spectrum of talent.
DEI initiative: coworkers across Canada foraged for items from their lives that told a story of their identity, those items were carbonized and ground into the ink itself, which was then gifted to every employee in the country as an invitation to write progress together.
Executive Creative Directors: Caitlin Keeley and Josh Day, Art Director: Amanda Spagnuolo, Artist: Matthew Progress