Neurodivergence

Co-hosted with the Imagining Wellbeing project in the, Centre for Urban Wellbeing. This workshop is the first in a series exploring the lived effects of various kinds of environment. We’ll invite you to reflect on how you feel in current spaces on or off campus, hear from others in a panel discussion, and engage with creative ideas for alternative approaches to built environments.

Learn about the double empathy problem. We’ll screen a short (satirical) film just produced by UOB academics and have some discussion over tea and coffee about the complexities of empathy across forms of difference, especially in the context of autism.

In this brief presentation, I venture some thoughts about the political theology of digital wellbeing with a riff on Nick Walker’s ‘Neuroqueer Heresies’