In the third Salon of this special series, hosts Scott Davies and Olena Bulygina continue their collective exploration of the topic of neurodiversity and the neurodivergent. In previous sessions, discussions have focused on several aspects of this topic, including defining these terms, challenges faced by the neurodiverse including employment, relationships and various aspects of identity.…
In his latest salon, host Scott Davies discusses our fixation with optimizing and quantifying every aspect of our lives, how things got this way and how we can push back against this trend. From the workplace and in our professional lives as well as increasingly in our personal lives too, our lives are increasingly becoming…
In this salon, Interintellect host Scott Davies explores the concept of 'Creative Destruction' We live in an age of increasing disruption, volatility and opportunity. With each passing year, the ways in which we conduct business, interact with one another and live our lives is changing more rapidly. A way of viewing this disruption and volatility…
In this Salon, veteran Host Scott Davies returns to take an interdisciplinary and wide-ranging approach to exploring the topic of existential hope. No matter your background or discipline, all perspectives… Continue reading Existential Hope: Imagining and Enacting a More Positive Future
Join returning host Scott Davies in a typically wide-ranging and freeform discussion on the idea of liminal spaces, both physical and mental, and the effects these have on our personal lives and society at large. All are welcome and all perspectives are encouraged in this salon. Liminal Spaces are conventionally thought of as physical spaces…
Join Scott Davies for a salon on cybernetics from its foundations to present. Cybernetics is, according to one of its pioneers, Norbert Wiener, concerned with “Control and communication in the animal and the machine.” Cybernetics is, as its core, the study of feedback models in social and biological systems. While most closely related to systems…
