Emergent thinker Adrienne Maree Brown talks of how we are faced with an imagination battlefield*. Many of us inhabit realities that were imagined for us by others, and for many these realities do not provide the conditions for prosperity and joy.
With the enormous problems we face today we collectively need to explore radically new imaginings that can support the dreams and prosperity of all beings. We need to ask unthinkable questions, challenge the status quo and form drastically different mental models.
Fang and Nirmala met in the web3 community Kernel. Over catch ups and conversations in Amsterdam explored many ideas about a new world that would capture the intentions of abundance for all.
Many of these ideas we discovered through kernel or its many members or random forks in the road in the slack group.
Many of these ideas and people existed on the fringe but are really pivotal triggering radical imaginings required to world build new ways of being. We wanted to find a way and format to share it with a wider audience.
A format that would be accessible, inspiring and archivable as a resource for others on their world building journey, as they fight through their imagination battlefield. This is why we chose twitter spaces as a live and conversational tool for world building through radically inspiring guests.
This is our space to practice visionary fiction in an open forum with a diverse group of hearts and minds.
Her background is in International Business. Before joining Disney to inspire people through the power of unparalleled storytelling, she worked in the payments industry to make payments an easy choice for clients and their customers.
She enjoys imagining ways of being that nurture serenity and meaningful togetherness where scarcity is only a concept because there is enough to share.
She spends her spare time playing table tennis and making food that sustains the people she loves.
She began her journey in advertising and digital production working across Melbourne and New York and is now based in Amsterdam.
She joined The Fabricant in 2020 becoming a fashion futurist working across product, production and now heading up the Community pillar to focus on The Fabricant's mission to grow and nurture the new digital only fashion ecosystem.
In her past web2 life she worked on product innovation teams at Spotify, Google Creative Lab, Xbox, Nike, Samsung, Apple, and more to deliver consumer facing solutions for emerging tech.
She now spends her time thinking about web 3 ecology and how to steward the new equitable economy.
We are proud to have Kernel as co-host for our first few conversations. We both met through Kernel during Block 5, both joining from Amsterdam in the Spring of 2021.
Kernel is an extremely diverse, special and heartwarming community that is exploring social change and transformative justice through the lens of web3 and blockchain technology. The goal is to attract the most diverse and interesting and groundbreaking thinkers and builders to find community and seed their projects and ideas.
To access all the readings and find out more about Kernel and future blocks visit kernel.community.