:::Weds., 04.09.2025:::2–5PM:::EMPAC:::
2025 International Symposium for Assistive Technology in Science and Art
Neurodivergent Knowing and Creating: Media, Thinking, Scholarship, Pedagogy, Crip Curation
When we talk about “neurodivergence,” what exactly do we mean? Within EMPAC’s 360-degree projection space, this open dialogue brings together researcher-practitioners making valuable contributions to the field to consider how neurodivergent body-minds relate with their environment, technology, humans, and the more-than-human. Through Erin Manning’s Pro-Tactile practice, Hanne De Jaegher’s theory of Participatory Sense-Making, and co-facilitator Jonny Drury’s Autism Dialogue Approach, we will explore neurodivergent media, thinking, scholarship, and pedagogy, as well as crip curation. This includes the subject of access in academia, a lens through which the breadth of institutional colonialism may be discussed. Together with the audience, the collective acumen and experience of our hybrid panelists will be dreaming these subjects forward.
Please join philosopher, artist, and scholar Dr. Erin Manning in generative dialogue with experts. This session opens and closes with 30-minute periods reserved for participants to gather and rest in a 360-degree space of ambient sound and moving image.
2–5PM hybrid event: 2:30–4:30PM panel, bracketed by 30-minutes in EMPAC’s 360-degree immersive panoramic screen.
_Panelists:
– Erin Manning, Research Chair, Speculative Pragmatism, Art, and Pedagogy, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University
– Hanne De Jaegher, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist; Scientific Advisor and Teacher, Mind & Life Europe (In(ter)dependent)
– Ellen Waterman, Professor in the School for Studies in Art and Culture, Helmut Kallmann Chair for Music, Carleton University
– Ann Fox, Professor of English, Davidson University, Crip Curator (Independent)
– Lindsey Dolich Felt, Lecturer, Writing and Rhetoric Program, Stanford University; Disability and Access Impact Lead, Leonardo/ISAST
– Allison Leigh Holt, Facilitator, PhD Candidate, Arts Department, RPI
– Jonny Drury, Co-director, Dialogica UK, Autism Dialogue Approach creator (co-facilitator)
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