Getting Involved

Information about participating in the Project:

I am gathering a group of neurodivergent creative practitioners to work together on this project.

Participation is open to anyone who thinks they would enjoy it based on the lists below.

For this project, the word ‘Neurodivergent’ will refer to a wide and evolving definition that initially applied to includes autism and ADHD, but is expanding to include dyslexia, BPD, and other ways in which people feel that they have significantly different brains from those in ‘wider society’.

Participating will involve practicing and exploring your creative work in whatever way works for you.

While doing this, we will explore ways to be creative together that would work better for us as neurodivergent people.

Together we will come up with ideas for making it better for us to be part of the wider creative and arts community.

Potential participants
– consider themselves neurodivergent and think of this as a core part of their identity;
– consider their creative work (for example visual art, writing, movement) the most important thing they do;
– want to be part of creative communities but feel acutely excluded from these because of the neurotypical ways in which these are structured;
– are passionate about and committed to changing this.

They DO NOT need to
– have a formal diagnosis of any kind;
– make a living or have gained ‘recognition within neurotypical society for their creative work;
– meet or speak to anyone at any point during the project;
– mask or ‘act neurotypical’ or take part in any kind of neurotypically structured engagement during the project.

Participation is unpaid.

The project offers participants

– a playful, safe, experimental space for all kinds of creative making and sharing;
– involvement in developing new forms of neurodivergent-driven connectivity and exploring what that might mean, look like or feel like;

– platforming of their creative work and ‘voice’ (linguistic or otherwise) on the project website;

– the same platforming and publicising of their creativity at arts and academic events;

– the opportunity to contribute (in writing or creatively, and with accreditation) to publications and presentations about the project.

In summary: participants can ‘play’ and experiment creatively on the site, and develop it through consensus into a new space which works better for neurodivergent creativity and collaboration.

The project asks participants

– to visit the website and ‘play’ in whichever part of it they want to, for any length of time they choose, every other week or so: this might mean making or sharing your creative work of any kind, engaging with the work of other participants, or sharing your ideas (linguistically or otherwise) about how to make the website better for neurodivergent creatives;

– to participate in text-based ‘asynchronous’ meetings (for example, meetings taking the form of online written ‘chats’ which are open for several days) around twice a year, where we will review our ideas and plan actions for making the site better.

Apart from these, participants can choose to work and create using the site in all kinds of other ways as we develop it and share ideas.

Project supported by the Icelandic Research Fund grant no. 239667-051

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