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INTRODUCING: 'Beyond 5 Senses: Awaken Your Sensory Superpowers' Our Audible Original Podcast exploring the hidden world of our supersenses. After 18 months of research, development and production, we’re thrilled to launch the show for Mental Health Awareness Week. The senses are unveiling new potentials for how we can care for ourselves, so we designed the show as an experiential wellbeing resource. We uncover how when we tap more deeply into our senses, we can turn them into superpowers to enhance health, creativity, states of connection and feel more alive in the world. Created and presented by Katherine and Robyn, each of the 7 episodes digs into a different sense including ones you know, and some you never even knew you had. We meet miraculous human interest stories, and some of the world’s leading scientists including Anil Seth, Aikaterini -Katerina Fotopoulou, Marta Čeko, Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse, Sahib Khalsa, Rona Geffen and Rachel Herz The show celebrates the diversity of each of our sensory experiences, shedding light that we each perceive our sensory world in our own unique way, to help build compassion, empathy and understanding. Dig in. We're so excited to share this with you all. Available globally, only on #Audible. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/ecvjRNXb Created by: Kinda Studios Hosts: Katherine Templar Lewis & Robyn Landau Lead Producer: Holly Fisher Script Writer: Ciaran Tracey Lead Researcher: Niall Hill Fact Checking: Pelumi Obasaju Cover Art: Lucy Hardcastle Studio Production & Sound Design: SALT Production & Commissioner: Fresh Produce Media® (Elena Bawiec Colin Moore, Jason Ross, Eliza Lambert) Audible Executive Producer: Stacy Creamer

🔸 We're hiring a Studio Coordinator 🔸 As our studio grows, we’re seeking a highly organised and detailed Studio Coordinator to help manage and oversee aspects of the day-to-day management of our operations. This role is suitable for someone early in their career looking to help manage, organise, execute and structure our internal and external operations for our team. Please comment or DM for anyone in your network this is relevant for ✨ Deadline for Applications: 12 November 2024. Send CVs & covering mail (500 words max) to [email protected] 

Robyn Landau will be speaking at KIKK Galaxy this week in Namur, Belgium. On Thursday 24th at 15:10, she’ll be giving a talk on ‘Transforming Design with Neuroaesthetics.’ KIKK is an international festival celebrating the intersection of art, science, and technology within digital and creative cultures. We’re excited to see all the amazing ideas and projects on display. Let us know if you'll be there—it would be great to connect. https://lnkd.in/eFnNVn4Z

Join us next week in London for our presentation 'The Neuroscience of Art' with Seed Talks. Following incredible feedback from our presentations in Edinburgh, Brighton, and Bristol, we are excited to bring these valuable insights to London! Join us as we delve into the rising field of neuroaesthetics, exploring the intricate and fundamental relationship between the human brain and artistic expression. Neuroscience is revealing just how powerful art can be, creating lasting physiological and neurological changes. Through an interdisciplinary lens, this talk examines how our understanding of art's impact on the brain and body can drive emotion, creativity, memories, and even connection. Together, we’ll explore what this means for our lived experiences and how we can design spaces and experiences that enhance our wellbeing in increasingly accessible ways. 🗓️ When: 7:00 PM, 15th October 📍 Where: Juju's Bar and Stage, London ✨ There are only a few tickets left available. Hope to see you there - https://lnkd.in/ekaXrt7V

Announcing: The Premiere of Inspirit - Kinda Studios audiovisual experience harnessing the power of breathwork. Designed with science-informed principles and drawing on research in sound, visual art, entrainment, and interoception, Inspirit fuses science, immersive art and emergent technologies to pioneer a new future of wellbeing. Our lab has demonstrated that Inspirit significantly reduces anxiety levels and enhances bodily sensation, promoting greater interoception and bodily awareness. Created with a fantastic team, including Lucy Hardcastle and Nailah Hunter, we're excited to share this experience with you as part of Project Immersed at the PHI Centre Montreal on October 4-5. Get a ticket here: https://lnkd.in/ei8NeQJT Inspirit is available for licensing across a range of venues, experiences, events, and installations. Get in touch to learn more.

We're excited to share that Robyn Landau will be speaking at this year's CICLOPE Festival, taking place from 8-10 October in Berlin. In her talk on Neuroscience & Creative Impact, she will explore neuroaesthetics and how our brains and bodies respond to culture and storytelling, delving into how these insights can shape more meaningful creative experiences. Join us for three days dedicated to inspiration, authentic connections, and a celebration of the best film craft and creativity from around the world. If you’re attending, let us know—it would be great to connect! Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eYG-PSad  #ciclopefestival

🧠🎨 We're coming to Edinburgh with Seed Talks to talk about The Neuroscience of Art. Delving into the rising field of neuroaesthetics, and with it the intricate and fundamental relationship between the human brain and artistic expression and appreciation. Neuroscience is revealing just how powerful art is, creating long-lasting physiological and neurological changes. Through an interdisciplinary lens, this talk examines how this new understanding of how art can impact the brain and body to drive emotion, creativity, memories and even connection we can better curate the world around us. We explore what this means for our own lived experiences and how we can use it to design spaces and experiences that support and impact our wellbeing in an increasingly accessible way. 🗓️ When: 7:00 PM, 24th September 📍 Where: Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh ✨ There are only a few tickets left available. Hope to see you there - https://lnkd.in/eRw5MWjh

Next week, we're thrilled to be speaking at three events as part of this year's London Design Festival, amidst all of the exciting exhibitions and talks on offer across the city! 💤 On the 17th of September, Katherine Templar Lewis will be at the Victoria and Albert Museum for the Global Design Forum, speaking on the ‘The Healthy City: Sleep and the City’ panel alongside Mike Edwards (Associate Director Building Decarbonisation and Climate Resilience, Retrofit Leader, Arup), JACU STRAUSS (Architect & Creative Director, Lore Group), Shumi Bose (Architectural Historian, Curator & Teacher), and chaired by Christopher Sanderson (Co-founder & Director, The Future Laboratory). Get a free ticket: https://lnkd.in/eBV6t8sc. 💡 On the 19th of September, Katherine moderates 'Light & Life' panel at Montcalm East, Autograph Collection, exploring how light affects the body and brain, how light is used in art, and when and why we notice good light. She’ll be joined by Christina Friis Blach (Co-founder & CEO of LYS Technologies) and artist & curator Alex Czetwertynski. Come down for the panel and to see a special installation of Sunday Light. More info: https://lnkd.in/esPxvUdZ. ✨ Also on the 19th, join us for ‘Illuminating the Human Experience’ at Occhio GmbH’s LDF event, co-hosted by Design Anthology UK. Robyn Landau will be on a panel with Linda Boronkay (Interior Designer) and Helen Neumann (Director of Lighting Design, Occhio GmbH), exploring the cerebral and visceral effects of illuminating interior spaces. We can't wait to share our insights and engage in these conversations around design, light, sleep and wellbeing. Hope to see you there.

Thrilled to announce that we are are part of the eleventh annual cohort of NEW INC, as part of the Creative Science track. NEW INC is cultural incubator from New Museum of Contemporary Art cultural incubator, and committed to supporting those at the intersection of art, design, technology, and entrepreneurship. We are so excited to see what this year will bring as part of this incredible program!

Earlier this week, we had the privilege of being featured in two articles that both touched on a fascinating subject - how art, in its many forms, can trigger awe, and how that shapes our brains and our experiences. Robyn Landau spoke to Charlotte Krol for Digital Frontier about whether overexposure to generative AI art dulls our sense of the sublime. While AI art offers endless creative possibilities, it also comes with the risk of saturation—could this abundance lessen our ability to experience true wonder? “Ultimately, Landau says, achieving awe comes down to a "balance" of digital consumption with more natural or analogue, IRL experiences. If there's one thing she would advise people to do to whip up those feelings of the sublime, it's to become more open to, and more aware of, what's already around us." Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eKABWjqw Meanwhile, Katherine Templar Lewis was interviewed for Good Housekeeping on the positive impact art has on our health. They also explored how awe plays a crucial role in our relationship with art: “Scientific assessments have shown that when we feel awe – for instance, when we see an outrageously beautiful view – the process causes a disruption in the brain; people who have been awestruck by a piece of art are often kinder to others and feel more connected to nature, themselves and their emotions.” Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eQ5NTuKu While technology offers new ways to experience awe, it reminds us that balance is key in nurturing a deep connection to the world around us. 💭 What do you think? How have different forms of art—whether digital or traditional—sparked feelings of awe for you?