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Reflections on Cycle #2 — A More Play-Full Future
10 weeks of collaborative research. Inspiring conversations with unexpected experts of all stripes. An interactive report that did more to embody play than even we originally imagined. 5 public briefs and as many weeks of imagination-and-ideation workshops asking the question “What If?” All in the effort to kickstart A More Play-Full Future — the better future we spent a whole cycle cultivating as a community. The cycle may have come to an end, but a more playful future is just beginning. And...

A RADAR PRODUCT: THE SIGNAL PORTAL
Today we’re pleased to announce the release of the RADAR Signal Portal! This bot allows communities to connect to RADAR’s #signal channels and collaboratively share our most cutting edge discoveries.From #gaming and #fashion to #labour and #social good, our RADAR members discuss emerging #signals every day, and what they may mean for our future. In fact, the RADAR community has over 30+ #signal-channels and now select communities are able to have exclusive access and become part of this excit...

INTRODUCING THE RADAR RESEARCH PROCESS: DEEP DIVE
Powered by the Research Squad. Written By @Keels and edited by @Kairon.In just about one week, RADAR will be kicking off its first ever research process, a critical stage on our journey to Discover, Incubate, and Deliver better futures.This will be a first for DAOs — tackling a foresight process, producing a futures report, and fueling a flywheel with our Incubate squad as a community — and we’re thrilled to leverage our web3 infrastructure and collective philosophy as we do it. Throughout th...
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This piece was written by a core contributor Caitlin Keeley; RADAR’s weekly worldbuilding lead.
I’ve always thought a denial of fate was awful and pessimistic. Totally sad and unromantic. Now I see that it’s a hopepunk sentiment. It gives us agency and power for change. And those are the vibes we need to build better futures.
At RADAR, we believe that the future belongs to those who think about it. And so, if we want to co-belong to better futures, if building better futures is what we’re all all about, how might we make that a habit or a ritual?
Weekly Worldbuilding is a ritual put together by me (Caitlin), Keely, Matt and Fancy to create a rhythm that hones key skills and activates superpowers in our community, while also opening the door to more folks.
SIGNALS: I have described RADAR as drinking straight from the tap of inspiration. 300+ interesting and interested people curiously looking at the world around them and intuitively noting signals – innovation, cultural shifts, trends, anomalies – and sharing them, making connections, having conversations. It’s invigorating and most definitely superhuman.
IMAGINATION: Combine that multiplayer superpower for signals with collective imagination. Or, put another way: find relics of the future in our midst, pick them up, look at them, and think about what kind of future they came from. Crucial to this process is to have fun because that unleashes creativity in an important way. And we have to do it together because building better futures is a superhuman task, more than a single human could do. The more people, the more perspectives, the more skills, the better. Collectively better futures.
We activate collective imagination with what ifs. That’s a signal speculated a little farther with creativity. If you’re having a hard time picturing collective imagination, here’s a rendering of RADAR co-imagining hover cars, drawn by Jarvis (age 7).

Or, here’s an example from our Discord this week on the theme of Technospirituality.
SIGNAL: Techified Spiritual Practices – exploring the intersection of technology and spirituality starting with signals around 'tech-scaffolded spiritual practices'. Zoom church. Crypto witches. Religious chatbots.
WHAT IF: the engineers of the future are witches? Riffing on this week's theme of technology x spirituality, we're dreaming of a future where tech is an aid to spirituality, a conduit to magic even...
FUTURES: So, we do that type of pattern a couple times a week and on Fridays we imagine a world 10 years from now where our theme of the week has manifested in some way. We do this by making Worldboards together. Worldboards are a collection of images, ideas and imagined ‘headlines from the future’ that give texture to speculative futures.
Here are some examples of Worldboards we’ve made together for the year 2033 on themes of co-owned neighborhoods, playful death culture, repair lifestyle, and habitual healing play. (You’ll notice we were exploring ‘play’ as an important influence while our community was developing the Play-Full Future Report.) We are in the process of imagining a technospirituality future, so if you want to see that one, there’s a link at the end.




Worldboards are proving to be a very interesting experiment. So weird and wonderful. Free-associating what’s next. Pretty much they are co-created moodboards of the future (our own little multiverse, if you will).
Not only are Worldboards revealing to make – a process in our channels that prompts people to share fascinating and unexpected thoughts, feelings, and connections between signals – but they also seem to act like Rorschachs of the future. If you just flip through them and soften your gaze, new ideas about the future will reveal themselves to you.
Sound like a crystal ball? That’s one of our favorite emojis!

But, we aren’t just pulling wild predictions out of thin air. There is thoughtful research, trend tracking, reflections on context, and the power of conversations across continents.
Every week this rhythm SIGNAL + WHAT IF + SIGNAL + WHAT IF = FUTURE prompts collective imagination and generates visions of the future that could only be made in multiplayer mode. Solo players just couldn’t get to this level, this non-linear jamboree of creativity, these moodboards of better futures. Collaging the future calls for a collective perspective.
So, come play with us!
written by: Caitlin Keeley artfully edited by: Keely Adler
This piece was written by a core contributor Caitlin Keeley; RADAR’s weekly worldbuilding lead.
I’ve always thought a denial of fate was awful and pessimistic. Totally sad and unromantic. Now I see that it’s a hopepunk sentiment. It gives us agency and power for change. And those are the vibes we need to build better futures.
At RADAR, we believe that the future belongs to those who think about it. And so, if we want to co-belong to better futures, if building better futures is what we’re all all about, how might we make that a habit or a ritual?
Weekly Worldbuilding is a ritual put together by me (Caitlin), Keely, Matt and Fancy to create a rhythm that hones key skills and activates superpowers in our community, while also opening the door to more folks.
SIGNALS: I have described RADAR as drinking straight from the tap of inspiration. 300+ interesting and interested people curiously looking at the world around them and intuitively noting signals – innovation, cultural shifts, trends, anomalies – and sharing them, making connections, having conversations. It’s invigorating and most definitely superhuman.
IMAGINATION: Combine that multiplayer superpower for signals with collective imagination. Or, put another way: find relics of the future in our midst, pick them up, look at them, and think about what kind of future they came from. Crucial to this process is to have fun because that unleashes creativity in an important way. And we have to do it together because building better futures is a superhuman task, more than a single human could do. The more people, the more perspectives, the more skills, the better. Collectively better futures.
We activate collective imagination with what ifs. That’s a signal speculated a little farther with creativity. If you’re having a hard time picturing collective imagination, here’s a rendering of RADAR co-imagining hover cars, drawn by Jarvis (age 7).

Or, here’s an example from our Discord this week on the theme of Technospirituality.
SIGNAL: Techified Spiritual Practices – exploring the intersection of technology and spirituality starting with signals around 'tech-scaffolded spiritual practices'. Zoom church. Crypto witches. Religious chatbots.
WHAT IF: the engineers of the future are witches? Riffing on this week's theme of technology x spirituality, we're dreaming of a future where tech is an aid to spirituality, a conduit to magic even...
FUTURES: So, we do that type of pattern a couple times a week and on Fridays we imagine a world 10 years from now where our theme of the week has manifested in some way. We do this by making Worldboards together. Worldboards are a collection of images, ideas and imagined ‘headlines from the future’ that give texture to speculative futures.
Here are some examples of Worldboards we’ve made together for the year 2033 on themes of co-owned neighborhoods, playful death culture, repair lifestyle, and habitual healing play. (You’ll notice we were exploring ‘play’ as an important influence while our community was developing the Play-Full Future Report.) We are in the process of imagining a technospirituality future, so if you want to see that one, there’s a link at the end.




Worldboards are proving to be a very interesting experiment. So weird and wonderful. Free-associating what’s next. Pretty much they are co-created moodboards of the future (our own little multiverse, if you will).
Not only are Worldboards revealing to make – a process in our channels that prompts people to share fascinating and unexpected thoughts, feelings, and connections between signals – but they also seem to act like Rorschachs of the future. If you just flip through them and soften your gaze, new ideas about the future will reveal themselves to you.
Sound like a crystal ball? That’s one of our favorite emojis!

But, we aren’t just pulling wild predictions out of thin air. There is thoughtful research, trend tracking, reflections on context, and the power of conversations across continents.
Every week this rhythm SIGNAL + WHAT IF + SIGNAL + WHAT IF = FUTURE prompts collective imagination and generates visions of the future that could only be made in multiplayer mode. Solo players just couldn’t get to this level, this non-linear jamboree of creativity, these moodboards of better futures. Collaging the future calls for a collective perspective.
So, come play with us!
written by: Caitlin Keeley artfully edited by: Keely Adler
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