What if we designed our world with empathy as our north star? What if every innovation, every creation, every digital space was measured not by metrics of efficiency or growth, but by its capacity to nurture care and connection?
From painting to music, poetry to digital spaces, technology to community, there are no boundaries for where love can lead the way.
In Love Unbound, our speed-dating session with big ideas, we’ve gathered six brilliant minds for five rapid-fire explorations of love's transformative potential. Watch the magic happen as these diverse perspectives collide in a lively cross-pollination of ideas.
Here’s a little presentation of our speakers (but tbh these few lines don’t really do them justice):
Kenneth Chu is the founder of Switch-Lit, an arthouse Internet platform-publisher of collaborative prose and poetry for the collective imagination. He is also the co-founder and creative director of Studio Esmé, an independent agency that produces original films, multimedia storytelling, and content strategy inspired by the emotional perspective of kids, teens, and families in the coming of age and across societal change.
Sundus Abdul Hadi is an artist and writer of Iraqi origin. She was raised and educated in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, where she earned a BFA in Studio Arts and Art History and a MA in Media Studies. Articulated through her artistic practice, writing and curation, Sundus’ work is a sensitive reflection on trauma, struggle, and care.
Melanie Kahl is an innovation leader, strategist, and experience designer who crafts programs, services, and gatherings for human flourishing. Her practice is focused on bringing relationship, joy, care, and wholeness to organizational & systems change — and she's intent on bringing a more creative approach to kinship into the world, because we all need more aunties, uncs, and godfolk in our village.
Rachel Chak is a Filipino-Chinese designer, researcher, and DJ based in London. With a background in Health Sciences, her practice explores technology as a generative tool for shared well-being, examining how nature and indigenous values of care can inform our relationship with digital spaces. Ever wondered about topics like co-creating infrastructures of care in web3? Digital mindfulness? The poetic web? Rachel's your girl.
Paqui Lizana⚡ MBA, MTH and Jenny Nicholson. Two moms, endless questions, and a passion for exploring the intersection of technology and humanity. Their joint AI studio focuses on research and experimentation to explore the evolving relationship between humans and machines, challenging algorithmic norms and envisioning AI's future impact on lives, minds, and ecosystems. And their latest experiment? Designing AI systems and brains to empower self-love, empathy and connection to the world. They call it Lovotics.
So mark the date, and don’t forget to share the love and tell a friend, because the more, the merrier. We’ll see you on November 14th.
