Embodiments: Art, Atmospheres and Sensory World is a 10-day, interdisciplinary event in Kapnergostasio, in the city of Athens, that explores how access is shaped—and reshaped—within the built environment. Bringing together artists and art professionals, designers, researchers, advocates, and communities, the event creates a shared platform for rethinking how environments are perceived, designed, and lived. Centering neurodiverse perspectives, the event proposes a shift from standardized notions of design toward more responsive, plural, and adaptive environments. It invites audiences to engage, to reflect, and to reconsider how spatial experience is constructed through sensory, cognitive, and emotional processes. 

At its core, the event is concerned with how perception shapes our experience of space, and how space, in turn, can celebrate or thwart difference. Embodiments is not only about access—it is about belonging, agency, and collaboration. Rather than positioning accessibility as a fixed goal or technical solution, the event frames it as an ongoing cultural and spatial practice—one that emerges through dialogue, experimentation, and collective imagination. It is an invitation to curiosity, care, and creative exchange.

The exhibition centers on the multisensory, interactive installation Echoes. An Immersive Exploration of Neurodiverse Spatial Perception and the Documentary Voices. Listeners in the Noise. The works Echoes and Voices were developed by Severino Alfonso and Loukia Tsafoulia as part of the EU Horizon S+T+ARTS (Science, Technology & Art), ReSilence artistic residency, in collaboration with the Greek computer vision company Up2metric and the Center for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH). Alongside these works, the exhibition presents contributions by researchers and artists from Greece and abroad. The exhibition brings together an interactive environment of light and sound, projections, and live actions, following a participatory curatorial approach while also incorporating co‑creation processes with neurodivergent communities. The imprint of the participatory actions becomes an integral part of the exhibition, evolving and expanding throughout its entire duration.​​