In this exciting upcoming SuperSalon, Twitch CEO Emmett Shear, the internet's favourite "friendly ambitious nerd" Visakan Veeraasmy, and Interintellect founder Anna Gát discuss online communities, global bonding, web3 subcultures and cyber-families. Come join us! The past one and a half years have brought the world challenges at an unprecedented scale: we spent our seemingly unending…
In these Interintellect workshop salons, Sylvia R helps us master the art of the short fiction through reading some of the greatest short story writers and analyzing their techniques. In this session, we’ll read Turgenev's "The Singers" and its analysis in “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain”, George Saunders’s literary masterclass on what makes…
In this IRL salon, Patricia Hurducas will lead a discussion on walking, walkability, and the invisible design of cities. We will walk and explore three different places in Zürich and end our walking tour on the terrace of a café in the old city centre. “Not to find one's way around a city does…
In this host training series, ii Camp Curiosity host Helena Ng will walk with you on the journey of hosting your own ii salons through the lens of the Hero's Journey. Helena is the host of Camp Curiosity, a series of workshop salons on discovering your own flavours of play, building a compendium of curious…
In this salon Maybe Gray invites you to explore a series of mystery topics for which she has not prepared to talk about at all. This brand new approach to improvisation at the interintellect is inspired by the Whose Line is it Anyway? improv game "Scenes from a Hat". In this game, a series of…
In this salon, Interintellect founder Anna Gát leads a discussion on military intelligence - strategic, operational, tactical. We will look at the history of espionage and strategic planning, as well as the lead-ups to some of the most famous battles. This event is part of our A History of War series; no previous attendance or…
Join economist, social technologist and RadicalXChange founder Glen Weyl and Interintellect co-hosts Alaka Halder and Wes Chow for this special members-only salon! Glen Weyl is a rare force in academia, public discourse, and movement building. One of the world’s foremost political economists, he co-invented groundbreaking systems such as quadratic voting to help societies make better…
In this salon hosted by Lukas Rosenstock, we'll share our thoughts about the idea behind universal basic income. It's a simple idea with proponents as varied as Martin Luther King and Elon Musk: give every citizen a monthly stipend to cover their essential needs, without conditions or work requirements. Unfortunately, no country or region has…
Eureka! In this salon debut Interintellect host Neville A Mehra leads a discussion on creativity and the origin of ideas. We'll share and explore our beliefs on the nature and origins of ideas and our experiences as creators, artists, knowledge workers, and thinkers of all sorts. Questions for Discussion: Where do ideas come from? Do…
In this salon (the first of a three-part mini-series), Jake Orthwein will lead a discussion on the parallels between contemporary politics and professional wrestling. It's difficult to escape the sense that there's something unreal about contemporary politics. The narrowness of the Overton Window, the pageantry of the debate stage, the artificial feuding of cable news…
Join Liz Voeller on an exploration through one of Herbert Simon’s key concepts and what it means for addressing complexity in our own lives. Systems demonstrate the property of “near-decomposability” when interactions WITHIN each subsystem are stronger than the interaction AMONG subsystems. This concept, made legible by Herbert Simon in his essay The Architecture of…
In part one of this mini-series, Alex Criddle will guide you through the ages of psychedelic usage from ancient to modern times. We'll also look at the psychedelic culture of the 60s and 70s -- the good and the bad, exploring the cultural ramifications of this period of psychedelic usage. We'll examine the reasons for…
