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welcome to our living archive - a collection of documents, reports, and artifacts that tell the story of how RADAR has evolved. Each piece represents a moment where our community came together to imagine and build something new.

foundational documents

early journey documentation

multiplayer futures: toward an emergence economy (2023)

published in March 2023, Multiplayer Futures is RADAR's foundational thesis (aka our not-so-litepaper) on multiplayer futures and emerging infrastructure. this document laid the groundwork for RADAR's approach to collective imagination and community ownership.

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this paper was authored by RADAR’s instigators at the time: Matt Weatherall, Keely Adler, Em Howell, and the inimitable purple orb at the center of RADAR known only as Fancy.

our thinking was deeply influenced by a variety of writers and organizations, without whom Multiplayer Futures could not exist in concept or implementation. we published this with gratitude to the thoughts, ideas, inspiration, feedback, and support of everyone mentioned (and likely, forgotten) in acknowledgments here.

cycles

A Future in Sync (2022)

"These days, it's hard to feel like we're on the same page: with each other, with the world around us, even with ourselves. In response, it feels like we're seeking the solid ground of synchrony: reaching out to the collective, reaching back to our roots, and reconsidering our relationship with space and time to find our footing yet again."

our inaugural cycle exploring how we might find new rhythms of connection in an increasingly disconnected world. features our first experiments with decentralized research and collective imagination.

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Founding Instigator: Fancy
Research Lead: Keely Adler
Incubate Lead: Matt Weatherall

Project Team: Sarah Owen
Project Team: Petah Marian
Project Team: Akash Das
Project Team: Severin Matusek
Project Team: Alice Sweitzer

Editor: Emily Howell
Editor: Alice Greenberg
Designer: Domingo

Full gratitudes captured at the bottom of the page here.

A More Play-Full Future (2023)

"What if play wasn't just viewed as a leisure activity? What if it weren't diminished as the domain of kids? What if – instead – it was viewed as a new mindset and a new approach for how we exist in, interact with, and build the world?"

this cycle emerged organically from A Future in Sync, where we discovered that maybe – just maybe – cultivating a better future comes down to making the world a little more playful. we explored play not just as leisure but as a new approach to existence itself, asking big questions about who gets to play, whether it's a privilege or a right, and what's at stake if a more playful future doesn't come to fruition.

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RADAR Instigator: Fancy
Research Instigator: Keely Adler
Incubate Instigator: Matt Weatherall

Project Team: Andrea Chen
Project Team: Alexi Gunner
Project Team: Jay Matthews
Project Team: Liv Pasquarelli
Project Team: Sarah Owen

Comms Lead: Emily Howell
Project Manager: Pandy Marino
Editor: Agalia Tan
Editor: Brianne Johnson
Creative Director: Domingo Beta

Full gratitudes captured here.

Our Centaur Future (2023)

"At the convergence of human and machine lies Our Centaur Future. But if we want that future to be a better one, what shape should it take?"

a protopian exploration of human-AI collaboration, diving into territory that's technologically complex, existentially charged, and changing so rapidly that anything written risks immediate obsolescence. instead of shying away from this uncertainty, we're mapping a blueprint for a future where humans and machines come together in ways that expand rather than diminish our humanity.

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RADAR Instigator: Fancy
Research Instigator: Keely Adler
Incubate Instigator: Matt Weatherall

Project Team: Athena Chen
Project Team: Alexi Gunner
Project Team: Akash Das
Project Team: Helen Job
Editor: Agalia Tan
Collaborator: ChatGPT

Creative Experimenter: Mariana Meireles
Creative Direction: Domingo Beta
Web Build: Fancy and ChatGPT

A Future in Love (2024)

for too long, love has been confined to the realm of romantic gestures and formalized relationships. in A Future in Love, we imagined a world where love isn't just the end point of some mythical quest, but the guiding force behind how we live, care for each other, and shape our world. not just an ideal or emotion, but a public ethic, a shared responsibility, and the core of the systems we build together.

LoveFest (November 2024)

more than just another virtual event, LoveFest represented a new model for activating better futures. this day-long gathering brought together thinkers, makers, researchers, artists, innovators, and network weavers to not just imagine but begin building A Future in Love.

the festival included:

what made LoveFest special was its focus on active participation over passive consumption. rather than just sharing research, we created space for people to discover their own role in building this future.

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RADAR Instigator: Fancy
Research Instigator: Keely Adler
Imagination Instigator: Caitlin Keeley

Cycle Instigator: Liv Pasquarelli
Creative Director: Domingo Beta

LoveFest Project Manager: Jovian Browne
LoveFest Project Team: Jay Matthews
LoveFest Project Team: Nabila Ahmed
LoveFest Project Team: Mathilde Cahill

micro.grants program (2024-)

our microgrants program emerged as a new tool in the RADAR toolbox - a way to fund and support member ideas that accelerate better futures while activating collective impact.

round one: the future belongs to those who think about it

in our first round, we collectively awarded small sums of money and the support of the community to 7 projects: including a 9-year-old (RADAR’s youngest honorary member, and Caitlin's son) who felt called to enroll his neighborhood friends in thinking about the future; a reimagining of panel events called Collective Inquiries from Jordan Nerison, serendipitously sprouted on LinkedIn of all places; and multiple projects (Mapping Rural Futures by Mathilde Cahill and Fortune Tellus by Purvisha Sutaria and Molly Simpson) born of university imaginings and meanderings that are too often snuffed out upon entry into the ‘real world’, among others.

but perhaps most powerfully of all, we were honored to support ‘Songs for the Future’, a project by Nigerian artist and activist Benny Ats who, through his recently-launched album and soon-to-debut school tour, aims to empower youth across Nigeria, and ultimately across the continent, through educational art and interactive quizzes whose results fund hard-to-afford university applications.

listen to benny's RADAR-inspired tracks here.

round two: accelerating a future in love

in our second round, we upped the ante — releasing micro.grants alongside A Future in Love's LoveFest and awarding $11,500 to projects around the world, most of whom applied from outside the community.

from transforming a wrecked fishing vessel into a space for collective healing in Italy, to reimagining rice farming as community care in Japan, to building new models for creative kinship across generations - each project reimagines how love can shape the systems and stories we share, in its own special way. (And yes, we absolutely checked under the couch cushions trying to fund more of them 😅)

→ learn more about the projects we funded here

projects & meanderings

occasional editorial

our irregular Substack publication is where you'll find us writing and publishing the latest, including (once-upon-a-time) our Wavelength publication which featured member-curated constellations and occasional deep-dives. You never know when she'll pop her head back up! \

doing our best to break Miro (2022-present)

the RADARverse map: what started as a "fun, cute, easy" holiday project blossomed into something much bigger - a collaborative map of our community's shared universe. through Tolkien-esque cartography, Animal Crossing vibes, and more memes than we knew we had, we created a living document of RADAR's magical little land.

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executional madness: keely adler & emily howell

inspiration: the whole wide world of RADAR

a more play-full playground: during our Play cycle, we pushed Miro to its absolute limits - building giant Lego structures, hiding Where's Waldo, creating miniature zen gardens, and encouraging everyone to PLAY PEOPLE! PLAY! It became our digital treehouse, with corners and hideouts for everyone to explore and expand.

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contributor: Jay Matthews

contributor: Joe Carpita

contributor: Liv Pasquarelli

contributor: Matt Weatherall

contributor: Keely Adler

contributor: Andrea Chen

lovetown & beyond: our A Future in Love immersion took LoveFest participants on a journey from the rigidly constrained suburbs of Loveless Lakes, through the organic unfolding of The Crossing, to the radically reimagined world of Lovetown. this "interactive poem" of a Miro board pushed the boundaries of both the platform and our understanding of love's transformative potential. through satirical vignettes, reflective prompts, side quests, and speculative artifacts, we collectively dreamed up a future (and a gargantuan board) "filled with so much love that it can't be constrained by the limits of tech."

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contributor: Keely Adler

contributor: Jay Matthews

contributor: Fancy

several hiberfolk are typing: a multiplayer writing experiment (2023)

an experiment in multiplayer fiction, where story and process were equally important. the narrative emerged through collaborative ideation sessions, with characters role-played by community members and worldbuilding that expanded with each contributor's perspective. published in Several People Are Typing magazine (Foster/Seed Club/Metalabel).

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contributor: Andrea Chen
contributor: Alexi Gunner
contributor: Caitlin Keeley
contributor: Emily Howell
contributor: Keely Adler

RADAR resolutions (2022-2023)

looking back, it was our late 2022 decision to forego any sort of end-of-year trend report in favor of 2023 resolutions that really set RADAR on a different trajectory. rather than simply reporting on what was, we asked ourselves what if — looking ahead to the world as it might be and sussing out the seedlings we believed were worth nurturing in the year ahead.

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curator/editor: Keely Adler
curator/editor: Emily Howell
contributor: Samar Younes
contributor: Caitlin Keeley
contributor: Akash Das
contributor: Jarrod Barnes
contributor: Jonny Almario
contributor: Emmanuelle Naranjo
contributor: Joe Carpita

Radio.RADAR (2024)

sometimes the best ideas just need time to compost. years ago, Caitlin and Matt Weatherall dreamed up the concept of a visual mixtape - a stream of inspiration, a direct line into the feel of RADAR. It sat around, waiting for its moment. in 2024, as we felt our collective vibe shift toward the dreamy and visceral, the imaginative and human, it was finally time. we wanted our 2024 resolutions to feel less finite and more inviting; less trend-report adjacent, more 'welcome to our world' — and so, Radio RADAR was reborn, giving people a way to feel into the futures we believed in through collected imagery, quotes, links, and curated low-fi vibes.

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original idea: Caitlin Keeley & Matt Weatherall
concept & curation: Keely Adler, Caitlin Keeley, Victoria Buchanan, Matilda Ruck, Jay Matthews, Liv Pasquarelli, Riccardo Trabattoni, Martina Rocca, Grace Mervin, Jonny Almario, Emmanuelle Naranjo, Nayara Moia, Daniel Riveong, Joe Carpita, Chris Stefanoni, Tsveti Enlow, Alexi Gunner, Sergio Ariza, Andrea Chen

production: Fancy

The Curious Human's Field Guide to the Future (2024)

"Better futures begin as cracks in the fabric — and they're everywhere, if you know where and how to look."

born from enthusiastic threads about life today and into the future, our Field Guide is an invitation to adventure into futures thinking. through essays, activities, and tools for foresight that work for amateurs and pros alike, it helps readers develop their own sense of agency in shaping tomorrow.

as of January 2025, it's found homes in over 22 countries and, by last count, a majority of US states — proving that futures thinking really can be as contagious as we hoped.

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Author: Keely Adler
Author: Caitlin Keeley
Author: Jay Matthews
Designer: Domingo Beta
Designer: Fancy
Editor: Brianne Johnson
Risograph Printer: Colour Code (Toronto)

with gratitude to the whole RADAR community

Tomorrow.Radio (2024)

Tomorrow.Radio is a digital radio station created to help people in the UK feel just a little bit more hopeful about things. it emerged from a stark reality: 58% of Brits would rather travel to the past than the future, and 73% of young people report anxiety about the future. in a country plagued by apathy and negative feelings about tomorrow, we need to share messages of hope more than ever.

the project takes RADAR's mission directly into local communities - showing up in fish & chip shops, on football pitch sidelines, and in neighborhood papers to ask one simple question: "Tomorrow could be brilliant. Tell us why?" it's about meeting people where they are and talking to people like people.

supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Tomorrow.Radio aims to crack open the door to better futures by collecting and amplifying stories of everyday hope from across the UK.

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Creative Direction: Caitlin Keeley
Creative Direction: Anna Rose Kerr
Production: Fancy
Posters: Petit Press
Funding & Support: Joseph Rowntree Foundation

memorable events

the Futurethon

‍following the launch of the Future In Sync report, we planned, produced, and ran the Futurethon — our reimagination of a traditional hackathon. it’s not that we had any real beef with the traditional model of PvP hackathons; they just weren’t fit for our purpose. and so we dreamed up something new. the Futurethon was co-created in the RADAR community – over three collaborative workshops, 18 active contributors, hundreds of stickies, and quite literally countless 🥚emojis.

we flipped the traditional model of highly-competitive hackathons into a much more collaborative, open, and generative experience.

into: A More Play-Full Future

four weeks of discovering how play might reshape our approach to existence, featuring talks, collaboration, and co-creation guided by RADAR's Future Mapping methodology. Week over week, participants were met with a new speaker (Malka Older! Annika Hansteen-Izora! Eric Zimmerman!) and a new step along the journey of co-creating their own version of A More Play-Full future.

into: Our Centaur Future

flipping Into the Future into a more condensed format, we explored more-than-human collaboration through conversations with visionaries like Fabrice Guerrier (Syllble), Rob Hopkins (Transition Towns), Amelia Winger-Bearskin (AI Climate Justice Lab), and Ari Melenciano (Afrotectopia). accommodating our friends across timezones, we offered two pairs of sessions — each featuring one on world-building and one on, well, building with speakers to match — and sprinted our way through from imagination to idea prototypes with (naturally) the help of our new AI friends, too.

LoveFest

when, for many of us, the world tilted on its axis this November, our LoveFest gathering (long scheduled for just a week and a bit after the US election) took on new meaning and urgency. while our original vision was an even-more-inclusive-than-our-previous-events paid experience to honor our speakers and sustain RADAR's community-driven work, the moment demanded a more expansive invitation. in a world that often pushes us toward isolation and despair, coming together to dream of better possibilities felt more vital than ever.

so LoveFest became a gesture of abundance and hope - a space where anyone, anywhere could explore how love might reshape our lives and world through vulnerable conversations, hands-on experiments, and collective imagination. from Yazmany Arboleda's opening invocation of art's power to create "explosions of love" to our closing reflection on the futures we're building together, the day wove together provocative ideas, practical pathways forward, and plenty of opportunities to connect on a human level.

talks and panels challenged us to re-envision everything from economic metrics to digital spaces through the lens of care. playful side quests got us out of our heads and into our bodies and imaginations. hundreds of people from around the world joined together across time zones and backgrounds to participate, not just consume - imagining, sharing, and beginning to live into new possibilities.

in the end, LoveFest embodied the core idea that propelled our entire exploration: that love isn't just a feeling, but a force — one that becomes transformative when we practice it boldly and collectively.

→ check out the full line-up here and catch up on what you missed in the care package (password available upon request)

events with friends

our most organic format — these pop-up sessions are just what they say they are. Multiplayer Maximalism in action, these events emerge when members spot cool folks doing cool things...whether they're already our friends or not.

to date, we've hosted four incredible sessions with the likes of:

and while they may have, at the time, been nested under our monthly exploration format, we'd say that our Around the Campfire events had much the same flavor. you can head back in time to check out the recordings on our YouTube page here.

multiplayer mode (an incomplete history)

we always say that people's time with RADAR comes and goes (and often times, comes back around when the time is right). while the folks below may not be active today, we want to acknowledge their key contributions that helped shape RADAR's trajectory in major ways:

RADAR's Founder

early builders

note: this archive is maintained by the RADAR community. have an idea for an addition or update? notice missing credits or context? reach out via DM or please let us know in #help.

last updated by keels on Feb 3, 2025

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