How do we make flirting a mode of moving through the world? Join Flirting Coach Ms. G to navigate what flirting looks like, feels like, and why we should be flirting all the time, with everybody. What if we thought of flirting as a way to shower everyone we meet with the most playful, attentive…
Jay Cousins is an inventor who loves to explore alternative processes, methods, systems, and products. He's especially interested in increasing Material Literacy, Adaptive Capacity and Growing Habitat. This event about MakerLabs (Co-created Festivals of Making) will explore the hows and whys of the MakerLab process - events that combine just enough Order to unleash the…
The Art of Hosting is a host training series, where Interintellect producer Maria Górska-Piszek interviews experienced ii hosts in search for their secrets, hard-won lessons, tips, and best practices. In this episode, we’ll talk to David McDougall – the cohost of Reading the Greats, probably the most epic series in the history of Interintellect. 15…
Join Interintellect producer Maria Górska-Piszek and the ii Welcome Committee to meet new Interintellect hosts across Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. This will be a fun and casual chat where our new hosts get on-boarded with Interintellect, and the rest of our community has a chance to get to know them better. Have you just…
In this Salon, Rohit Krishnan and Samuel Arbesman lead a discussion around how to better recombine ideas and encourage a broader cross-pollination across the landscape of humanity's knowledge. It seems a common worry that innovation is faltering. There are many explanations, from the declining fruits of knowledge, to ossification in our structures, to lack of…
A writer's work can often feel lonely. Writer and experimenter Char Putney knows this all too well. But she comes with good news - you're no longer alone! The robots are here, and they're very keen to help. From procedural generation to artificial intelligence, there's never been a more exciting time to play with words.…
Ethics involves not only questions about how to relate to others but even elucidates ways we can relate to ourselves as individuals. Christophe Porot is a published philosopher and PhD candidate who focuses on the ethics of mysticism. We live within an ethical environment shaped by ethical commitments, whether it be our own convictions or those of the collective.…
Join Isabela Granic for this special IRL gathering that will also double as an intimate, active and interactive, workshop. We will be considering the theory and practice of creative collectives and exploring how we can find our own small squad of like-hearted souls to help us thrive. Location: Liverpool Street. The exact address will be…
Join us as we finish David Deutsch’s “The Beginning of Infinity” and close out our 10-month, 15-session book club. Share your final thoughts about this challenging, thought-provoking book with every one of our thoughtful, friendly peers who made it to the end! How can we shed the parochialism of the past? What singularities have humans…
Do you want to read more classic fiction? Do you want to know more about how novels work, their technique? Do you want to do this in a low pressure bookclub-style setting? Join Henry Oliver, who writes The Common Reader for this series on How to Read a Novel. In this series, we will learn how novels…
There are many phrases we use to describe doing work we feel is meaningful, important, and moral. In this salon co-hosted by Interintellect founder Anna Gát and executive coach Jason Shen, we explore the conception of Good Work / God's Work / One's Calling / Ikigai—and how we all might find more spiritual fulfillment in…
World-renowned author, landscape preservationist, and civic activist Elizabeth Barlow Rogers joins energy and infrastructure attorney, birth doula, and InterIntellect host Hailey Phillips to explore what it takes to build timeless institutions of value, transcending contemporary political drama and lasting for generations. Central Park, in the words of Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, “is both a masterpiece of landscape…
