Unseen Being

Kinda Conversations: Uncertainty & Chaos

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:42:25 GMT

In this special series, recorded live at Soho House 180 the Strand, we feature some of the leading women at the intersection of neuroscience and the arts.

Creativity is born in the liminal space between order and chaos - but to enter this zone, we must surrender our regimented structure and enter ambiguity, sitting with the unknown.

In this episode, we explore the architecture of the creative mind: an emergent property of consciousness and how to maximise its potential by changing our relationship with uncertainty. Featuring Dr María Herrojo Ruiz Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience at Goldsmiths, University of London, and BODUR, multidisciplinary artist and composer, we ask: how can we, across the worlds of neuroscience and art, learn to not just tolerate but engage with uncertainty?

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Kinda Conversations: Sonic Bodies

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:47:32 GMT

In this special series, recorded live at Soho House 180 the Strand, we feature some of the leading women at the intersection of neuroscience and the arts. This episode’s theme is sonic bodies - our connection to sound as an embodied experience, and what that means through the lens of neuroscience, and the implications for our wellbeing.

Join us in the conversation, featuring cognitive neuroscientist at Goldsmiths University Dr Diana Omigie, and London-based Japanese composer Hinako Omori.

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Kinda Conversations: Sensory Diversity

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:27:59 GMT

In this special series, recorded live at Soho House 180 the Strand, we feature some of the leading women at the intersection of neuroscience and the arts. In this episode, we explore sensory diversity - the idea that each of our own perceptions of the world are uniquely shaped by the way our individual senses process them.

Joined by experts Julia Simner, professor of neuropsychology at the University of Sussex, and Jennifer Crook, artistic director of Collective Act, producers of Dreamachine, we explore the different ways each individual can experience our sensory worlds around us.

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Kinda Conversations: From Virtual Worlds to Real Wellness - VR & Mental Health

Tue, 13 May 2025 15:15:48 GMT

In this special episode, recorded live at SXSW 2025 in Austin our experts Skip Rizzo, Sarah Ticho and Sean Carroll discuss the untapped potential of VR to address and prevent mental health issues, highlighting ethics, accessibility, and the challenge of bridging creatives with healthcare practitioners. Exploring the paradox of using technology to reconnect us with our bodies, minds, nature, and each other.

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Kinda Conversations: Emotional Machines - AI, Feeling & The Human Body

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:20:40 GMT

In this special episode, recorded live at SXSW 2025 in Austin we explore artificial emotional intelligence and its evolving role in human experience. Human emotion is embodied - rooted in sensation and deep knowing. Can machines experience emotions without a physical body? Bringing together experts Suhair Khan, Danielle Krettek Cobb & Barney Steel.

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Kinda Conversations: Transformative Travel

Tue, 23 Apr 2024 13:19:16 GMT

In this special series, recorded live at Soho House 180 The Strand, we feature some of the leading women at the intersection of neuroscience and the arts. In this episode we explore the role of transformative travel, with guests Sara Doyle, Vice President, Global Brand Leader at Design Hotels, and Dr. Lauren Macdonald, Psychedelic Trial Doctor at Imperial College London, and Co-founder and Facilitator at Essence Medicine.

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Kinda Conversations: Immersion

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:39:05 GMT

In 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.

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Kinda Conversations: Connection to Environment

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 07:32:09 GMT

In 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

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Kinda Conversations: Connection to Others

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 09:10:04 GMT

In 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.

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Kinda Conversations: Connection to Self: Interoception

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 15:24:47 GMT

In 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.

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10. Psychedelics

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 10:47:27 GMT

This 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 field surges, we help you understand why this research is so crucial at this time, and how to think about and take psychedelics safely. We're joined by Psychedelic Researcher, Chris Timmerman, Phd and Creative Director, Psychedelic Artist and founder of Tayos, Eileen Hall.

http://eileen-hall.com/

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/psychedelic-research-centre/

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09: Flavour

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 20:28:25 GMT

Is 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 you use fermentation to recreate this chocolate in a more sustainable way, without even using cacao? From fermentation to fungus, in this episode, we enter the world of flavour.

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08: Interoception

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 17:44:59 GMT

This 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 with leading researcher, Dr. Jenny Murphy from Royal Holloway, University of London, and Salome Bazin, and artist, designer and founder of Cellule Studio creating experiential art envisioning the future of healthcare and bodies.

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07: Synchrony

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 09:43:47 GMT

Episode 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 choreographer Matthias Sperling and Professor of experimental psychology Daniel Richardson.

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06: The Breath

Tue, 05 Oct 2021 17:31:00 GMT

The 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 artist working with biofeedback-based artworks to shift human wellbeing. https://www.georgekhut.com/

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05: Technology

Thu, 29 Jul 2021 10:46:00 GMT

This 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 guests and collaborators in the studio:

Multidisciplinary artist Hannah Marshall

www.hannahmarshall.com

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And Cognitive Scientist Carl Hayden Smith

@behindthebeats

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04: Embodiment

Fri, 28 May 2021 16:15:20 GMT

Exploring the body and presence

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03: Nature Connection

Thu, 06 May 2021 11:48:16 GMT

This 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 exploring the interconnected world of bees. We discuss the importance of awe and wonder in how to reignite this connection to our environment and discuss how to find it around us, even in the everyday.

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02: Ritual & Empathy

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 09:55:27 GMT

This 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.

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01: Sound

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 16:43:48 GMT

Unseen 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 understanding us, in real life with the sounds we hear all around us.

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