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Dead Economists Salon Series : Degrowth, Doughnuts, Postalgia and Progress

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In this meeting of the Dead Economists Salon Series we discuss the benefits and challenges with degrowth and doughnut economics that preference social and economic sustainability over economic growth and shareholder value. Hosted by: Bronwyn Williams and Peter Isztin. We question … if the limits required in terms of social safety nets and resource usage ceilings could exacerbate feelings of postalgia (the feeling that today…

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“Masks” and Meaning – Improv Games

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In this improvisational acting workshop, Interintellect Maybe Gray invites you to explore the meaning of “masks” in theatre, psychology, and spirituality.  The use of tangible masks has existed throughout the history of dramatic performance. We all recognize the most iconic symbol of drama itself to be a pair of masks with exaggerated expressions of joy and sorrow,…

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The Great Interintellect Friend Finding Self Discovering Mingle (Part 2)

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Fellow Interintellects Katrina Dela Cruz and Brian Ahuja cordially invite you to a salon of inter(intellect)mingling, of finding friends and rediscovering old ones, in group convos and 1:1s, just the way you like it… The Great Interintellect Mingle is back again! We had great success with the initial mingle salon and are hoping to help continue forging new connections…

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Information Curation from the Library of Alexandria to the World Wide Web

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In his debut Salon, Rafael Nepô will tackle the complexities in dealing with Information with a deep dive in Curation throughout history. “Humanity is at a turning point in its history. The mass of available information is formidable. New instruments are necessary for simplifying and condensing it or the intellect will never know how to overcome the…

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Our Spaces on the Internet: Personal Websites and Social Media

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In this Interintellect Salon, Dominic Duffin will lead an exploration of our spaces on the internet, how we use them, how or whether they represent us as individuals, their value as places for learning and experimentation, self-expression and socializing. Most of us probably have multiple spaces on the internet. Personal websites, blogs, social media accounts.…

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A History of War: Attack Part 2 – The Factories of War

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On May 11, Interintellect founder Anna Gát returns to discuss aspects of warfare, with a look at wartime production and inventions. We will discuss necessity and motivation, coordination and mass production, new physics and statistics: all the steel, bullets, zippers, airplanes – and the social change that takes place as they roll off the conveyor belt. This…

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Facts Matter – SuperSalon with Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales

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On May 13, Wikipedia’s legendary founder Jimmy Wales joins us to discuss the contended nature of facts in the internet era, how this uncertainty affects our politics, relationships, identity and mindset, and what we can do about it. The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, seems to have single-handedly changed how we relate to information: an ironic statement…

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Re-Enchanting The City

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In this Salon, Indy Neogy hopes to re-examine our relationship with the City as a key part of our ways of living. Much of the speculation about post-Covid changes has centred on the possibility of digital communication technology making The City obsolete. Of course in this and other Salons we live some of that possibility on Zoom.…

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Designing the Spaces for Learning

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Interintellects Mind Apivessa and Katrina Dela Cruz continue to investigate the future of learning by exploring the spaces where we learn. Classrooms, lecture halls, conference venues — each of these are traditional spaces for learning which which optimize for a “sage on the stage” model which leaves little room to foster creative, peer-to-peer collaboration. As educators such as Maria…

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Down the Rabbit Hole: The Atlas of Curious Questions (IV)

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Fellow InterIntellect Helena Ng invites you to a ‘salon of salons’ where we attempt to answer curious questions from the many minds of the InterIntellect. So many questions, so many rabbit holes to fall into! In our pursuit of curiosity and play, many questions from the Camp Curiosity collective have surfaced, and we can’t wait to indulge…

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Problematizing Public Education

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Interintellect Maybe Gray invites you to question whether public education is better characterized as an essential element of civil society or as a tool for the socially acceptable enforcement of state control. From some philosophical perspectives (consider Foucault, Nietzche, Schopenhauer, Bentham, et al), the historical transition in public education “from external vengeance and towards internal amendment” may…

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