Nudge, nudge, wink wink. In this Dead Economists Society Salon Bronwyn Williams and Peter Isztin discuss all things behavioural economics, and "libertarian" paternalism. "Smith is often remembered for the concept of an “invisible hand” that guides an overall economy to prosperity if each individual makes their own self-interested decisions—a key concept in classical and neoclassical…
Sketchnotes can turn any meeting into a fun exercise in creativity. In this workshop-style salon, you will learn how to draw them yourself. Your guide will be professional illustrator and sketchnoter Zsofi Lang, and together we will combine theory and practice to come away with a different perspective on notetaking. Learn about how sketchnotes can…
This Salon with Alex Danco will be all about games. What is a "game", and what does it mean to "play"? What exactly constitutes a "Game", and what constitutes "Play", is one of the hardest questions to precisely answer. Puppies and kittens do it; kids do it; and grownups certainly do it too - although…
In this SuperSalon, writer Akash Kapur, author of Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville, will join writers and Interintellect hosts Tanya Raj and Visakan Veerasamy to explore the pull of a perfect utopia: the pleasures and the losses, and the finding of eventual transcendence and acceptance, even in…
In this salon, Dominic Duffin will lead an exploration of how blockchain, cryptocurrency, NFTs, gaming and digital art come together to create a new culture, and how significant a break this will be. The internet revolutionized and democratized how we think about information, moving us away from a topdown paradigm where information was produced by…
In this salon series, Tanya Raj will lead deep-dive discussions on The Prophet by Khalil Gibran and his philosophy on living a life with purpose and meaning. In this salon, we will delve into speech, the need for humans to talk and express, the concept of time as a fluid eternity, or if time even…
Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy hosts a fireside chat about starting new things. We're approaching the end of 2021, which means soon it'll be 2022. It's been a rough couple of years for many. Nevertheless, life has to go on! And part of that means we can't stay in stasis forever. We have to try…
Tech emotionographer Pamela Pavliscak hosts an 8-month Interintellect Salon series while writing her new book #Feels: How Technology is Changing Our Emotional Life for the Better. Have you ever wondered why we feel compelled to note and name every new variation of sadness online? Or what you call that emotional hangover you can get after scrolling social…
Join Yatharth and Brooke Bowman in a conversation about friendships, scenes, and growth. So many scenes die before they are born, as dreams. What does it look like to take those visions and turn them from a wistful “I wish I could move to a village with my friends!” to an actual, thriving scene? How do…
Visual artist turned medical educator Alexa Miller (on twitter here) will host this salon centering experiences with visual art as a catalyst for expansion, innovation, connection, bias awareness, and shameless enjoyment. Experience a session of close looking at art using the Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) methodology, a facilitation method originally created for K-12 learners and increasingly…
In this members-only host training, Daniel Golliher will take you through the basics of audio production, and help you think through launching your own podcast. Many people have, at one point or another, thought about starting a podcast. And if not a podcast, a YouTube show. Whether you’re an academic, an entertainer, or just someone…
Recent studies have shown that plants are capable of learning, forming memories, recognizing their own kin, talking to one another as well as other organisms, and tell time among other things. Your host, Alex Criddle, has more in common with plants than you might initially realize! If plants can recognize family, communicate, and learn how,…
