CONNECT: A Field Guide to Putting Unrelated Things Together

What happens when things that don’t usually meet… meet?

CONNECT is a playful field guide to finding unexpected relationships between ideas, people, places, disciplines, nature, and different ways of thinking.

Inside:

🌍 The Connection Loop: Notice → Bridge → Compare → Test → Keep/Break → Share

🧠 The Human Collider + Different-Brain Test

🌿 The Nature Heist

✈️ The Passport Test

👁️ Experiments with generations, languages, and unfamiliar perspectives

🤖 Ways to use AI as an idea collider—without confusing analogy with evidence

✨ Field prompts + permission slips for crossing imaginary boundaries

Different lived experiences are not noise in a system. They are additional ways of seeing the system.

Part of Rio Solara’s Curiosity Lab Field Guides.

Many minds. Many places. Many lenses. More views. More possibilities.