Sensing Space

The Sensing Space project explores all the ways that we can define our built environment. It began with insights from University of Birmingham staff and students during a workshop for Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2024 co-hosted by the Imagining Wellbeing theme in the Centre for Urban Wellbeing.

The Sensing Space project is collecting data to gather a body of evidence about different ways that different kinds of human bodies are affected by the spaces where we think and learn together on the University campus. It aims 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.

If you’d like to get involved with the project, please get in touch with Dorothy (d.butchard@bham.ac.uk) and Jeremy (j.kidwell@bham.ac.uk). You can find out more and submit your own perceptions of space on the project website: sensingspace.bham.ac.uk/