Hyperhuman

Hosted by Carl Heyden Smith

The Hyperhuman week is an intensive lab experiment in designing the conditions that shape perception, cognition, and imagination.

The week begins with an exploration of Context Engineering where we will treat context as a medium: participants learn to read the chateau, forest, group dynamics, and timetable as active interfaces, then adjust them deliberately to widen attention. This skill becomes the backbone for Holotechnica: composing repeatable experience stacks that convert short-lived state shifts into altered traits that remain when the stimulus and scaffolding drop away.

From there, we will train in Double Consciousness, the capacity to hold more than one experiential field at once. Concretely, participants practise switching viewpoints: inner and outer experience, self and other, digital and physical, and private and public. The aim is clarity under split attention and layered perception to deepen agency rather than dilute it.

Midweek, Umwelt Hacking moves the focus beyond the human default, using ecological and neurodiverse reference cases to destabilise a single “normal” model of intelligence and wisdom. We will consolidate a practical repertoire of Hyperhuman Methods for state regulation, perceptual widening, epistemic resilience, and relational capacity, each converted into daily protocols.

The week culminates in a live Museum of Consciousness where participants will co-curate audio-based exhibits, practice high-resolution reporting, and discover a feedback loop between art, measurement, and iteration.

Participants will leave the lab with a shared vocabulary, a personal operating system of hyperhuman protocols, and a clearer ethic for using technology as a scaffold rather than a substitute.

Monthly theme:

April | Feÿ Ludens - We play