Hello friends,
We've made it so easy to make things by ourselves. It feels strangely difficult, still, to find partners in crime, to play calendar tetris with my friends, or even to find folks to jam with.
Though we’ve dramatically lowered the cost of making things, we’ve barely reduced the cost of coordinating around them. Over the last ten years I’ve witnessed far too much creative potential collapse, not for lack of ideas or talent, but because the right people couldn't come together, or hold together, in time. Ideas may persist, but individual and collective motivations have expiration dates.
We’ve come to believe that the hardest part of coordination is care: trusting each other, showing up, making room, caring what happens to the people beside you. Every system that helps us do things together either strengthens that, or quietly wears it down.
Radiofuture is a coordination systems lab. We use fieldwork, simulations, and experiential products to design new ways for people (and agents!) to do things together, and do them well. As more of how we live and work together runs through agents, we want it to bring us closer, and notice when it doesn't.
The name radiofuture comes from radio: a once new medium that let signals travel without a physical wire between people. That simple possibility gave rise to new forms of communication, which in turn shaped how we find one another and what we can achieve together.
We're figuring out what comes next. Come jam with us!