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…
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.…
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…
In this Interintellect salon, Nastasia Griffioen will lead an exploration of personality tests, and why we just can't seem to get enough of them. What kind of cat are you?…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
In this salon, Interintellects Vidhika Bansal and Kushaan Shah ask: what does the spectrum of burnout look like? Most of us have experienced some form of burnout before. Hell, you might even be feeling it at this particular moment. Whether it’s through work, daily content creation on Twitter, keeping up with dating apps, parenting through a pandemic, or…
Progress writer Jason Crawford is writing a book about the modern world and how it was invented. In a series of salons, we will explore this content together, chapter by chapter, and get an inside look at the author’s creative process. Behind the world of our daily lives, there is a hidden world, one that keeps…
Join Interintellect Host Brian Toh on a Journey to Neverland, as we explore being a Lost Boy, and what it means to grow up. "All children, except one, grow up." Dear Peter…
