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Submission Number: 142
Submission ID: 191
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| Given name | Anna |
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| Surname | Püschel |
| anna.pueschel@kuleuven.be | |
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| Title | Stimming a Space - Dancing at the Margins of a Neurodivergent Cosmology |
| Format | Project presentation |
| Main language | English |
| Abstract | Neurodiversity is gaining more and more attention in the public discussion, slowly but persistently countering wide-spread prejudices around neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, dyspraxia or ADHD. As the narrative surrounding neurodiversity is expanding, so are the possibilities to understand neurodivergent ways of thinking and doing. This development can bring immense relief and appreciation to neurodivergent individuals that are used to encounter constant misunderstandings, frustration or fatigue. In the rather recent field of neurodivergent academic writing, the neurodiversity paradigm that treats neurodivergent individuals as equals and entitles them to telling their own story opens new pathways to understanding neurodiversity as a variation of human existence and brings different ways of thinking-making-being into the discourse. Many authors in this still emerging field choose auto-ethnographic approaches, opening their experience to a larger audience and uncovering a sensuous world in constant movement, interwoven and enmeshed with the neurodivergent bodymind. This creative contribution traces my first steps of dreaming what I call a neurodivergent cosmology in which time, space and language as experienced by my neurodivergent peers constitute a whole new reality that can inspire us to re-think societal structures and institutions. If time defies linearity, if bodies are intertwined with their surroundings, and if language is not necessarily verbal, can these realms inspire us to do things differently? My artistic research feeds into current decolonial discourses and serves as an invitation to dwell at the margins of the neurotypical universe in an attempt to explore how neurodivergent (self)care and connection can offer alternatives to a collapsing world order. |
| Link to the Exposition | https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/4151290/4151291 |
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| Previous presentations or iterations of the research | I have presented my work at the CA2Re Conference in Aarhus in 2023, at the Subject/Object/Practice/Place conference in of the University of Malte, Valletta, in 2024 and the seminary Corps vivants, corps sensibles : penser, créer, expérimenter of the EHESS in Paris in the series Art, Autisme et Silence in 2024. There is an article published by Cogitatio Press about my research called Dancing Hands: On Neurodivergent Embodied Knowledge, and one in the process of being published with Cosmos in 2026 |
| Additional information | I would like to give presentation of appr. 30 mins, with a Q&A/discussion of appr 20 mins. So an hour in total including transition time for the audience. |
| Spatial and technical requirements | If possible, it would be wonderful to have a room in which people can easily get up as I would love to do a short embodied exercise at the beginning of the lecture. So a room with spaced tables would be more suitable than e.g. an auditorium. Furthermore, I need a screen and a laptop to do my presentation. That is all! |
| Potential risks or ethical concerns | There are no ethical concerns as to this presentation. |
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