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"Welcome to the Fifth Quarter", the Tesco shopping centre FKA Paul Street, Cork.
AKA "The Raj Quartet Addendum".
Desire lines, lane-forming and patterns of movement at the RDS #Dublin during the #Autism Europe Congress, hosted by #AsIAmIreland in September.
The video is annotated with locations and movement patterns, with a transition into a motion intensity heatmap (showing how one group establish and retain a small territorial refuge space to eat).
In recent years, art museums have increasingly focused on offering experiences of learning, socialization, and self-determination to all visitors, including those who are neurodivergent. As repositories of the visual arts, art museums have great potential to engage neurodivergent visitors through the richness and complexity of their collections. However, museums often unwittingly maintain barriers to access. Tension continues to exist between the traditional role of museums as institutions dedicated to the preservation of collections and their role as spaces in which that collection is available to a diverse public. The goal of empowering neurodivergent people to visit museums on their own terms is a multidisciplinary effort, often relying on input from the fields of medicine, public health, architecture, engineering, design, and museum education. This symposium, “Neurodivergence and Art Museums,” brings together voices from these fields to discuss recent developments in the accessibility and ease of experiencing cultural spaces and future possibilities for the inclusion of neurodivergent audiences. One of the symposium’s guiding questions will be: How can we imagine art museums as public spaces that embrace and engage individuals with a diverse range of neuro-abilities, and create opportunities for dialogue, connection, and innovation? Panelists will address the process of creating neuro-inclusive environments from the experience of neurodivergence; audiences for neuro-inclusive design; and the ways in which neurodivergent visitors can discover, navigate, and make use of these environments. These cross-disciplinary discussions will explore how different fields engage and embrace neurodivergent visitors and consider how art museums can look to interdisciplinary solutions to open their spaces to the neurodivergent community. In addition to the programming, First Place–Phoenix, a residential community school in Phoenix, AZ, is supporting exhibitions of art by keynote speaker Stuart Neilson at New Alliance Foundation Art Gallery at CT State Gateway and at Chapel Haven Schleifer Center, a residential school in New Haven for adults with social and cognitive disabilities, from October 23 through November 21, 2025.
"Picturing Inclusivity" will be playing in the "Reflection of disability in art" International Festival / Διεθνές Φεστιβάλ "Η αντανάκλαση της αναπηρίας στην τέχνη" in the University of Macedonia, 28th November - 5th December.
The short film is about using video art to help understand #place as an #autistic adult, by John Schaffer, featuring Stuart Neilson, with a score by Laura Nadine, and produced by Asperagus Productions and First Place Global Leadership Institute.
https://rodi.uom.gr/en/reflection-of-disability-in-art-internatonal-festival
The 4th Annual NOT #InspirationPorn #Disability #FilmFestival 2025 will be showcasing several award-winning short films highlighting the #disability experience, including two locally produced films - "Take Care" and "Picturing Inclusivity".
October 15 2025.
"The cow version of the Rose of Tralee"
I am speaking at the symposium "#Neurodivergence and Art #Museums" in Yale, Connecticut, 23-24 October 2025.
In addition to the symposium programming, #FirstPlacePhoenix, a residential community school in Phoenix, Arizona, is supporting exhibitions of art accompanied by video and poetry from #neurodivergent creators at New Alliance Foundation Art Gallery and at the Chapel Haven Schleiffer Center from October 20 through November 23, 2025.
https://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-programs/neurodivergence-and-art-museums
In recent years, art museums have increasingly focused on offering experiences of learning, socialization, and self-determination to all visitors, including those who are neurodivergent. As repositories of the visual arts, art museums have great potential to engage neurodivergent visitors through the richness and complexity of their collections. However, museums often unwittingly maintain barriers to access. Tension continues to exist between the traditional role of museums as institutions dedicated to the preservation of collections and their role as spaces in which that collection is available to a diverse public. The goal of empowering neurodivergent people to visit museums on their own terms is a multidisciplinary effort, often relying on input from the fields of medicine, public health, architecture, engineering, design, and museum education. This symposium, “Neurodivergence and Art Museums,” brings together voices from these fields to discuss recent developments in the accessibility and ease of experiencing cultural spaces and future possibilities for the inclusion of neurodivergent audiences. One of the symposium’s guiding questions will be: How can we imagine art museums as public spaces that embrace and engage individuals with a diverse range of neuro-abilities, and create opportunities for dialogue, connection, and innovation? Panelists will address the process of creating neuro-inclusive environments from the experience of neurodivergence; audiences for neuro-inclusive design; and the ways in which neurodivergent visitors can discover, navigate, and make use of these environments. These cross-disciplinary discussions will explore how different fields engage and embrace neurodivergent visitors and consider how art museums can look to interdisciplinary solutions to open their spaces to the neurodivergent community. In addition to the programming, First Place–Phoenix, a residential community school in Phoenix, AZ, is supporting exhibitions of art by keynote speaker Stuart Neilson at New Alliance Foundation Art Gallery at CT State Gateway and at Chapel Haven Schleifer Center, a residential school in New Haven for adults with social and cognitive disabilities, from October 23 through November 21, 2025.
