Unseen Being
14 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 months ago -Unseen Being is a monthly show from Kinda Studios, talking with artists, scientists and each other about what’s happening inside our brains and bodies when we experience the world around us. Each month, Robyn and Katherine explore one of the most overlooked, unseen and intangible topics which shape how we feel, interact with each other and move through the world around us. Consider this a monthly audio handbook, curated by artists, neuroscientists and technologists – a critical guide to understand the wellbeing of experience in the current age.
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Episodes
Kinda Conversations: Immersion
November 30, 2023 09:39 - 41 minutes - 49.5 MBIn this special series, recorded at Soho House 180 The Strand, we're bringing listeners inside our 6-part series on connection and immersion. Featuring some of the leading women at the intersection of neuroscience and the arts, we explore the role of connection and immersion in our daily worlds. This episode features May Abdalla, Founder and Director of Anagram, an award-winning studio creating interactive and immersive experiences. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Kinda Conversations: Connection to Environment
November 15, 2023 07:32 - 35 minutes - 41.6 MBIn this special series, recorded at Soho House 180 The Strand, we're bringing listeners inside our 6-part series on connection and immersion. Featuring some of the leading women at the intersection of neuroscience and the arts, we explore the role of connection and immersion in our daily worlds. This episode features Dame Judy Ling Wong and Dr Rosalind Watts, leaders at the intersection of science, ecology and planetary connection Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Kinda Conversations: Connection to Others
November 02, 2023 09:10 - 28 minutes - 24.9 MBIn this special series, recorded at Soho House 180 The Strand, we're bringing listeners inside our 6-part series on connection and immersion. Featuring some of the leading women at the intersection of neuroscience and the arts, we explore the role of connection and immersion in our daily worlds. This episode kicks explores the power of joining in groups and as community in rituals and live experiences and the powerful way this bonds and unites us as one. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...
Kinda Conversations: Connection to Self: Interoception
October 16, 2023 15:24 - 27 minutes - 22.7 MBIn this special series, recorded at Soho House 180 The Strand, we're bringing listeners inside our 6-part series on connection and immersion. Featuring some of the leading women at the intersection of neuroscience and the arts, we explore the role of connection and immersion in our daily worlds. This episode kicks off the series in conversation about Connection to Self with Dr. Jenny Murphy, a leading scientist at Royal Holloway, University of London on Interoception. Hosted on Acast. See...
10. Psychedelics
February 07, 2022 10:47 - 49 minutes - 44.8 MBThis episode dives deep into the growing research and world of psychedelics as a healing source, an alternative practise and way to expand our consciousness. As more compelling research emerges about the powerful role psychedelics have on creating huge shifts about the way we see ourselves, our beliefs and our connections, we break down how this works in the brain, the power of altered states of consciousness and how it fundamentally shifts our experience of the world around us. As this fiel...
09: Flavour
December 15, 2021 20:28 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBIs it all in the mind? In this episode with experimental psychologist Professor Charles Spence and food scientist @drjohnnydrain, we deep dive into our perception of flavour. Created from a heady mix of taste, expectation, context and our other senses, flavour can be manipulated and played with to enhance wellbeing, sustainability and even connection. We find out how flavour parts of the brain evolved to keep us safe. Why certain sounds and colours make chocolate taste sweeter. And how can yo...
08: Interoception
November 15, 2021 17:44 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBThis month, we dive into one of our favourite topics - Interoception, the hidden sense that lives inside our body that shapes our wellbeing, emotions, cognition and more. As one of the largest rising neuroscience research fields of the past decade, Interoception is incredibly fundamental to our sense of self and everyday experience. The feeling of the rumbling of your stomach! The sensation of your heartbeat! The need to wee! Your sexual arousal! This is your Interoception at work, We speak w...
07: Synchrony
October 22, 2021 09:43 - 39 minutes - 36 MBEpisode 7 finds us exploring another intangible but powerful part of human experience, Synchrony. We speak about the mind and body interface, interpersonal connection, and what actually happens when our movements, heartbeats, brainwaves and even our speech starts to synch. As well as a discussion of the need to study such aspects of the human condition from both a scientific and artistic lens. All with two incredible cross-discipline collaborators from NeuroLive. The contemporary dance choreo...
06: The Breath
October 05, 2021 17:31 - 52 minutes - 45.9 MBThe Breath is a transformational tool on the body, emotions and brain. As a free, resource available to all, it is one we have access to at nearly ever moment of the day. In this episode, we discuss the science, the art and the dynamics of the breath, and how transformative interactive artworks can help elicit breathing rhythms which not only drive health but provide meaningful lived experiences which connect us so intimately to ourselves. This episode features George Khut, a pioneering artis...
05: Technology
July 29, 2021 10:46 - 41 minutes - 36.1 MBThis month we explore the topic of technology. How do we define technology and why does interplay between humans and technology result in such a struggle for sovereignty? How can we change our intentions of use, and design of technology to be more human first using it creatively to connect us back to ourselves and each other? How can we use it to enhance and extend our senses and even give us a new type of consciousness? Helping us explore these fundamental questions we have some incredible ...
04: Embodiment
May 28, 2021 16:15 - 48 minutes - 42 MBExploring the body and presence Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
03: Nature Connection
May 06, 2021 11:48 - 40 minutes - 31.6 MBThis month's episode explores our connection to nature. How it is not only vital for our own wellbeing but how it directly impacts our pro-environmental behaviour (PEB), a vital factor in how well we can face the current climate crisis. We speak to the ecologist and psychedelic researcher Dr Sam Gandy about the Overview Effect and what we can learn from indigenous cultures as well as the composer and visual artist Lily Hunter Green about her interdisciplinary collaborations which are explori...
02: Ritual & Empathy
April 06, 2021 09:55 - 40 minutes - 34.9 MBThis month's episode explores the power and importance of ritual across societies and their impact on the cultivation of collective empathy - something absolutely crucial for this time. Whether alone, or together in groups, science continues to prove the important of rituals to help us ground, connect, bond and mark moments in time. Join us with Dr. Christopher Kavanagh and Artist Enni Kukka Tuomala in our exploration of empathy in the modern age. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for ...
01: Sound
March 18, 2021 16:43 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MBUnseen Being is all about exploring the overlooked, intangible, and unseen aspects that contribute to our wellbeing. And sound, all around us, all the time, is a fundamental place to begin. We speak with neuroscientist Dr. Yewande Pearse, about how music actually interacts with our brain, and James Bulley, a multi-instrumental composer and sound artist working with sound and the natural environments, who offers us an inspiring approach to his creative process, and the importance of understan...