If there’s one red thread in A World Beyond Words, it’s comfort with multiplicity. No square pegs in round holes here: We’re done trying to problem-solve within the confines of a cold system.

This garden we’re cultivating is a wild one. Constantly learning, adapting, growing, and evolving. Nurturing narratives that celebrate idiosyncrasy, in service of the larger ecosystem we share.

It’s transformative stories of care, compassion, and community that we’re after.

Unsurprisingly, ‘community’ was one of the most frequently uttered words throughout our workshops and conversations. For us, A Future In Sync must lay atop a foundation of belonging and reciprocity.

Rebuilding communal anchors. Reclaiming shared temporal structures. Embracing play, empathy, deep context, and responsiveness in the products and practices we imagined. These were but a few of the themes echoed.

We also yearned for a future free from divisiveness. Where global and local, individual and collective, humanity and nature weren’t competing forces, but complementary ones.

Our urge to reconcile — with the past, the present, the ancient, the forgotten, the lost, the local, the vernacular, the niche, the fringe — has grown and grown, because we understand now more than ever that nothing is binary. Not black and white, but rather countless realities within our grasp.

And while unity and reconnection were common themes in our conversations, there was also deep attention paid toward preserving the kaleidoscopic nature of heterogeneity — a desire to build toward a mosaic, not a monotone picture.

Our community is ready to speculate, reimagine, and unleash A World Beyond Words because we believe it’s the ultimate embodiment of A Future In Sync: Warm and wild; renewing and regenerative; comfortable in the polyrhythms of its conscious chaos; connected, playful, and alive at the intersections of ancient and emerging; learning, unlearning, and relearning to build a world anew.