Synesthetic Research & Design Lab

The International Neurodiversity & the Built Environment Symposium explores how design can honor diverse sensory, cognitive, and relational experiences. This year’s theme, Building Empathy, includes practitioners, researchers, artists, students, and self-advocates to rethink how environments can support dignity, agency, and belonging.

SR&DL is happy to have co-organized the 3rd Annual International Neurodiversity and the Built Environment Symposium: PlaceMaking.

Excited to share the 2nd annual Neurodiversity and the Built Environment Symposium and looking forward to critical discussions on inclusion, advocacy and accessibility. Join us for a day of international conversation between designers, artists, medical field experts, tech companies, educational institutions, self-advocates, and caregivers.

Neurodiveristy: Building Community and Rethinking the Built Environment was an online, 4-day, cross-disciplinary symposium of critical...