Working at the intersection of attention, perception, and human experience.
Among the Hamar — a people known for their warriors — an elder took my hands.
I expected a greeting. Brief. Firm. The kind of grip that comes from a life built around strength.
He held them lightly instead — and didn't let go.
Nothing was said. No message passed through his fingers. Just his hands, around mine, in no hurry to end.
I stood there longer than I meant to. The longer it lasted, the less certain I became about what a handshake was supposed to be.
Somewhere in that stretch of time, without noticing exactly when, an old assumption loosened.
By the time he let go, something in the moment had changed. Not the gesture itself. Something around it.
INERA HOUSE is built from moments like that one.
INERA HOUSE is created by Gunda Hackbarth.
She has spent years chasing the same question through very different doors.
Holding her breath until it taught her something. A winter lived inside arctic darkness. Time spent travelling and living among people and cultures far from her own. Hundreds of books read for the same reason — anatomy, philosophy, old wisdom, new science. Years of working with touch professionally, her hands on strangers and familiar faces alike, listening for the same small thing in all of them.
The work is shaped by a fascination with the subtle moments that form our inner lives — the words we repeat, the sensations we overlook, the patterns we rarely question.
INERA HOUSE grew from this ongoing curiosity.
Its work is simple: to design small experiences that invite people to notice more — and, through noticing, discover more about their own way of being.
