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COLLABORATION / FUTURES / IDEAS /
A futures practice that manifests in making things with other people.
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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.
Get the Field Guide. (shipping early 2024)
Created by: Keely Adler, Caitlin Keeley, Jay Matthews, Domingo Beta, Fancy & the RADAR Community
Edited by: Brianne Johnson
Published by: Colour Code Printing
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, Matt Weatherall, Collaborators: 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 :)
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
ILYFN
A short documentary film, I Love Your Fucking Name. Debuted at film festivals across North America and since then has found a home on the Iris network’s channel. Last time we checked, it had over 2 million views.
Creative: Caitlin Keeley and Josh Day, Director: Finn O’Hara, DP: Stuart Campbell
NEVERLAND
A workflow process created to bring in artists at the beginning of idea development, rather than just at the end for the execution phase. After almost two decades working between the art and ad worlds, we believe there is opportunity to push the space for collaboration and find ways of working together that are more mutually beneficial. Our most exciting ideas are made in multi-disciplinary teams. Neverland is inspired by that insight born from experience.
Concept and creative: Josh Day and Caitlin Keeley