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…
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…
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,…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy leads a discussion on how to host great salons. Friends, new and old, welcome to Interintellect! What makes a good ii salon? How do you choose a good topic? How do you make it compelling, interesting, exciting? And once you've got people interested, how do you make sure that…
Eyal Shay read a story to his little girl, but as she dozed off to sleep, he stayed up contemplating its meaning and looking for the story behind the story. When Reddy heard about it, there was a burst of recognition, for this was the story whose plot he'd vaguely known all his life without…
In his debut Salon, Jack Chong leads a discussion on how espionage is portrayed in movies and television series, and why it is portrayed the way it is. As a self-proclaimed nerd on espionage, these are the movies and television series (in English only, excluding Chinese and French-made works) that Jack has watched. If you have… Continue reading Spies in Popular Culture: How and Why?
Video production basics workshop for existing and prospective hosts! With every year the tools used for media production grow increasingly powerful, but communicating your message with video and audio doesn't have to be complicated. Olga Yakimenko is a video editor and past videographer with experience in video and podcast production, and is keen to share…
