The future belongs to those who think about it

<aside> 🌳 In our first experiment with community grants, with the small amount of budget we have at our disposal, we’re incentivizing and supporting the acceleration of better futures with a focus on spreading belief and building meaning in our flagship statement: the future belongs to those who think about it.

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Below, you’ll find a few prompt areas that outline the types of ideas we’re interested in funding — but don’t feel limited by them: the main idea is that we’re looking to fund proposals that extend RADAR’s mission and reach beyond the walls of our Discord, and empower members with resources to give them the time and space to make it happen in simple, lovable, complete, and memorable ways.

Prompt Area 1 - RADAR

<aside> 🏠 We believe the future belongs to those who think about it, and we’ve created a home for people to do it inside of RADAR… So how can we bring more people to the community in meaningful, invested ways?

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• Do you have an idea that will help more people understand who RADAR is and what we’re all about?
• Do you have an idea that will help grow RADAR’s reach and impact in a meaningful way?
• Do you have an idea that will meaningfully increase the value of being a RADAR member, particularly through the lens of multiplayer connections and experiences?

Prompt Area 2 - The Industry

<aside> 🔎 We know full well that much of thinking about the future still happens in the same spaces, with the same people, within the same confines… how might we challenge and expand the current thinking of the futures industry with the spirit of RADAR?

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• Do you have an idea that will help bring experiments in multiplayer-mode to more of the industry?
• Do you have an idea that will help expose the industry to more inclusive futures thinking and alternative perspectives?
• Do you have an idea that will help bring RADAR ways of doing and thinking into industry practice in meaningful ways?

Prompt Area 3 - Our Better Futures

<aside> 🔮 We’ve already done a lot of our own ‘thinking about the future’ — but admittedly, we need to get these visions in front of more people who can engage and learn from them. How might we share our visions of better futures (e.g., Sync, Play, Centaur, Campfire topics) further?

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• Do you have an idea that brings visions of better futures we’ve already worked on as a community to light and life in new ways?
• Do you have an idea that will help spread a vision of a better future we’ve already worked on, as a means of exposing more people to RADAR, futures thinking, and/or this particular vision?