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Our Neurodivergent Narratives: Visual Storytelling Through a Prototypical Design Framework
The inclusion of diverse representation of neurodiversity is lacking in the dialogue and methods of the built environment. Authors of disability theory, Tobin Siebers and M. Remi Yergeau, would agree with our frustrated sentiments. Neurotypicals are currently inscribing us as medicalized symptoms, stereotypes, and “non-human”, whereas we neurodivergents are authoring our narrative identities in evolving, reflexive, contextual, communicative, and architectural space. By avoiding engaging diversity within neurodivergence, architectural discourse focuses on product design-oriented solutions and exclusive, unempathetic practices. Actively ignoring neurodivergent lived experience removes crucial context. As two neurodivergent women within built environment professions, we share this neurodivergent label, but our narratives, needs, and responses vary. This visual essay suggests an inclusive, co-creative, adaptive design framework, to guide the neurodivergent authoring “resonant” and “multiple embodi[ment]” of neurodivergent narratives. Our narrated experiences reflect on establishing trust, understanding the social context of our interactions, advocating for preferred forms of communication, discovering our sensory perceptions and needs, defining our comforts, and expanding our philosophy of empathy. This design framework is a “resonant” prototype that reflectively adapts to those who are there, by inviting modification. From this neurodivergent exchange of experiences, we hope to convey the importance of diverse neurodivergent inclusion within the design process, and beyond.
Our Neurodivergent Narratives: Visual Storytelling Through a Prototypical Design Framework
The inclusion of diverse representation of neurodiversity is lacking in the dialogue and methods of the built environment. Authors of disability theory, Tobin Siebers and M. Remi Yergeau, would agree with our frustrated sentiments. Neurotypicals are currently inscribing us as medicalized symptoms, stereotypes, and “non-human”, whereas we neurodivergents are authoring our narrative identities in evolving, reflexive, contextual, communicative, and architectural space. By avoiding engaging diversity within neurodivergence, architectural discourse focuses on product design-oriented solutions and exclusive, unempathetic practices. Actively ignoring neurodivergent lived experience removes crucial context. As two neurodivergent women within built environment professions, we share this neurodivergent label, but our narratives, needs, and responses vary. This visual essay suggests an inclusive, co-creative, adaptive design framework, to guide the neurodivergent authoring “resonant” and “multiple embodi[ment]” of neurodivergent narratives. Our narrated experiences reflect on establishing trust, understanding the social context of our interactions, advocating for preferred forms of communication, discovering our sensory perceptions and needs, defining our comforts, and expanding our philosophy of empathy. This design framework is a “resonant” prototype that reflectively adapts to those who are there, by inviting modification. From this neurodivergent exchange of experiences, we hope to convey the importance of diverse neurodivergent inclusion within the design process, and beyond.
Our Neurodivergent Narratives: Visual Storytelling Through a Prototypical Design Framework
Sustainable Development Goals Series
Mostafa, Magda (editor) / Baumeister, Ruth (editor) / Thomsen, Mette Ramsgaard (editor) / Tamke, Martin (editor) / McLain, Shannon (author) / Updegrove, Rachel (author)
World Congress of Architects ; 2023 ; Copenhagen, Denmark
2023-09-03
30 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Neurodiversity , Neurodivergent , Narrative , Inclusive design , Mental health , Co-creation , Design process , Multi-modal communication , Adaptable , Place-making , Human-centered design , Trust , Social , Communication , Sensory , Comfort , Empathy , Art therapy Energy , Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings , Design, general , Developmental Psychology , Sustainable Development , Engineering
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