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🏕️ UPCOMING MAY CAMPFIRE: Building a Speculative Brand in Multiplayer Mode 🏕️

🏕️ MAY 2024 🏕️ OUR MAY CAMPFIRE: Building a Speculative Brand in Multiplayer Mode 6th - 31st May This months topic: “How might systems & societies change in a world where humans aren’t the main characters?” Our anthropocentric (and western-centric, and capitalistic, extractive, insert problematic adjective here) systems are no longer serving us — that much is clear. But the question of what might come next is a lot more muddy. Inspired and influenced by RADAR’s values and imaginative...

2 days ago • 4 min read

RADAR COMMUNITY Campfire #2 - Stuff Whether we like it or not, so much of our lives are bound up in stuff. Meaningful stuff that matters, frivolous stuff that clutters, and everything in between. As we reconsider the ‘consumer story’ and gravitate toward a post-consumer world in the face of a many-dimensional crisis, what becomes of the future of stuff? And what do such changes mean for our stuff-centric lives? This March, our RADAR community gathered around the cozy virtual campfire from all...

13 days ago • 4 min read

RADAR COMMUNITY Campfire #1 - Time Over the month of February, the RADAR Community explored the question: "What constitutes a good use of time?" (cue existential crisis, we know) Through dedicated research channels and a series of events, we collectively challenged how we think about time both as individuals and as a society. In the reflection below, Agalia Tan — February's Campfire Lead — captures some of the key tensions and ideas that emerged as we thought about what kind of better future...

about 2 months ago • 5 min read

2024 February Roundup Before we start, thank you so much to everyone who’s been posting your field guide content, we’re so glad that they’re with you safe and sound! If you’re feeling the FOMO grab one here, there’s less than 100 left! Our Call to Adventure Every year RADAR embarks on an ambitious multiplayer challenge that we can only achieve together. In December 2023, we planned to build an inclusive ‘education’ platform and it's brought us to something we think is really important… What...

about 2 months ago • 3 min read

2024 January Round-Up Pleasant timezones RADAR fam — Borrowing a bit from Els Dragt’s newsletter, we hope your 02024 is off to a good start 💜. As they put it, “No, that zero is not a typo. 🙃 It’s a simple way to push your long-term thinking.” We love that, here’s to more subtle nods to the future this year and beyond. Anyway, our start to 02024 has been busy! So we wanted to send you the first of what we hope will be monthly updates. THE JANUARY ROUND-UP 1. We’ve chosen our campfire topics!...

3 months ago • 4 min read
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