A forward thinking, genre pushing work … primal and futuristic.

 

Experience the Power of Connection

Immersive Art, Serious Science

Birds flock. Fish school. Reindeer herd. This is emergence: when individual parts of a system interact, self-organize and become something greater than the sum of their parts.

Synch.Live is a live-action cooperation game modeled on collective behavior in nature that uses simple rules, wearable technology, and a novel game challenge to prime groups for connection and creative problem-solving.

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EXPERIENCE

The Set Up
Groups of 10-20 wearing custom LED hats try to synchronize their hat lights through movement.

The Rules
No talking, no touching, keep moving.

The Catch
Participants can’t see or control their own hat lights.

The Reward
The thrill of human connection!

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SCIENCE

Developed with neuroscientists as an open-technology framework for evidence-based research on human collective behavior, Synch.Live science builds on the research that shows the positive effects of shared experience and physical synchrony on rapport, cooperative conversation, and team problem solving. Our first experiment with nearly 200 participants demonstrated that players in winning groups reported significantly higher connectedness to others after playing Synch.Live.

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VISION

Synch.Live fosters human connection on three levels: as a deeply personal experience, a shared group practice, and a catalyst for a more connected society. It offers people something rare and urgently needed: an embodied, first‑person experience of connection in a world that pulls us apart. It invites groups to sense, adapt, and collaborate in real time, building the skills and perspectives needed to navigate an uncertain future. Each game generates rich data on how collective behavior emerges, creating an evidence base to understand, measure, and advance the science of human connection.

This fusion of lived experience, civic rehearsal, and scientific insight drives our vision: to foster human connection at scale, equipping people everywhere to work together and flourish in the face of change and to meet the future with optimism and possibility.

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What people are saying…

  • “I love this. There's no judgment, there's no preconceived notion of what it should be.”

  • “Finding the connection with other people without saying anything - that was really cool."

  • “I tend to lead in certain areas and I love this because you can't assert yourself in any individualistic fashion.”

  • “I would love my work team to be doing this instead of trying to problem solve in our usual dysfunctional way.”

  • “It’s a fun way to explore yourself and your physical connection to the world around you."

  • “It was really fun being in communal movement with everybody. It was so satisfying to feel like we had achieved something together.”

  • “It only happened once I stopped thinking about it and started just responding.”

  • “It's a chance to get out of yourself and experience others in a different way.”

  • "Congress should play Synch.Live!"

  • "I feel like if people did this right before they tried to collaborate on an assignment, they would have a higher success rate."

  • "There's so much faux team building out there. This actually is team building."

  • “I think everybody needs to come try this out."

  • "I learned grammar in school, but nobody taught me how to read a body."

  • "There’s a sense of embodied playfulness that only happens in connection with others."

  • “I was not okay in the beginning with not knowing, but in the end I didn't care anymore."

  • “Beautiful. I think I’m going to dream of schools of fish tonight.”

  • “I want classes like this every week.”

  • “As adults we need special permission to act childlike, but that kid is inside us.”

  • “It only happened once I stopped thinking about and just started responding.”

  • “Felt like there was a thought process happening but not in my mind. It was in my body and with others."

  • “I feel like I dropped into something that made my whole being smile. I felt very connected to these strangers.”

A MOVEMENT FOR THIS MOMENT

Synch.Live is a global project to foster human connection, created and directed by artist Hillary Leone, and developed in collaboration with research scientists at Imperial College London, Queen Mary University of London, and University of Sussex and an ever-widening network of international contributors.

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