Sensing Space Workshop: Beta Testing and Project Launch
The Sensing Space project seeks to explore all the ways that we can understand and define our built environment. This beta testing event will introduce the project and ask participants to help test out our prototype app. Come along to share feedback on our activities so far, and suggest ideas for the future.
When and where
- Thursday, 20 March 2025
- 14:30 – 15:00
- Arts Building, Main Lecture Theatre 120, University of Birmingham
About this event
The Sensing Space project seeks to explore all the ways that we can understand and define our built environment. It began with insights from staff and students during a workshop for Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2024, and we have since developed a prototype app to evaluate experiences of different environments. There is a huge diversity in the ways that people experience space, and we are collecting data for this project in part to gather a body of evidence about the different ways that different kinds of human bodies are affected by the spaces where we think and learn together on the University campus. As an optional feature, our app can also be used to keep track of your own experience of different spaces to identify patterns and areas that may prompt a particular set of responses. We aim to celebrate spaces that feel cozy or reassuring, and draw attention to ways a space can make us feel uncomfortable, alert, excluded, thoughtful and so on.
For Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2025, this beta testing event will introduce the project and ask participants to help test out our prototype app. Come along to learn more and share feedback on our activities so far and suggest ideas for the future. Please get in touch with Dorothy (d.butchard@bham.ac.uk) and Jeremy (j.kidwell@bham.ac.uk) for more information.
This event is part of a series of workshops and events by the Neurodiversity Staff Network at University of Birmingham for Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2025. You can see a full list of events here: https://bham.sharepoint.com/sites/news/SitePages/Neurodiversity-Celebration-Week.aspx