whether you're just landing or coming back for a refresh, here's your guide to navigating our cozy corner of the internet.
first things first: this is a living, breathing community - not an inbox! we encourage you to:
customize your experience (use the 'browse' channel up top to toggle channels on/off)
dive in at your own pace (the rabbit hole will still be here tomorrow)
find your rhythm (some folks are here daily, others pop in when inspiration strikes)
keep an eye on 📣・announcements for the important stuff
👋 community spaces: where the everyday magic happens:
⛲・water-cooler: your digital break room for memes, jokes, and casual chat
🪞・let's-get-meta: our rabbit hole for all things futures, research, and big thinking
🤝・promo-help-opps: share opportunities, ask for help, find collaborators
✨・only-vibes: pure inspiration, from visuals to music to podcasts to reads (and new this year, a channel for us to PLAY with multiplayer art direction!)
🥰・irl-chapters: find RADAR folks in your area
🌱 signal garden where we collectively track how futures are emerging (or unraveling):
organized by theme (aesthetics, technology, ideology, etc.)
share what catches your eye and makes you wonder
connect dots across domains
build on each other's observations
🔬 yearning labs where we're experimenting over the course of 2025:
participate in our current exploration
share experiments and insights
connect with fellow possibility-builders
help document what we're learning
the community spaces and signal garden are server constants — but the space where you'll find the yearning labs? that switches out depending on what sort of cycle we're in at the moment (but don't you worry, it's ALL archived, always!)
keep an eye on our events calendar for ways to participate in real-time:
where to find them:
check 📅・upcoming-events for the latest calendar
most events stream right in Discord (easy to pop in and out!)
recordings often available if you miss the live magic
local gatherings posted in 🥰・irl-chapters
pro tip: even if you can only catch part of an event, the energy of thinking together in real-time is something special. don't let perfect be the enemy of participating!
a few folks you're likely to run into:
Keely Adler (@keels223) — partner, head of practice
Caitlin Keely (@caitwin_) — partner, head of imagination
Alex Eley (@wampano) — 'agency' lead
Jonny Almario (@squid9826) — local chapters lead
Domingo Beta (@domingobeta) — creative lead
Emmanuelle Naranjo (@mannee90 ) — welcome witch
Liv Pasquarelli (@livster0x) — resident tarot reader
Joe Carpita (@joecarpita) — discord/miro whisperer
community energy and participation ebbs and flows!
these are but a few of the folks you're likely to find in and around the server on a consistent basis. there are many more who you'll find active during specific labs, cultivating new chutes in the signals garden, or popping in from time to time when schedules and sanity allow. that's one of our favorite things about RADAR!
last updated by keels on Feb 3, 2025