Session 7: Co-Designing with Neurodiverse People: An Embodied Creativity Perspective

Wednesday 25 June 2025, 3.30 -5pm, Online session

Dr Laura Malinin, Inaugural Director, Nancy Richardson Design Center & Associate Professor of Interior Architecture + Design, Colorado State University

This presentation describes two multi-year projects where an interdisciplinary group of researchers and students engaged neurodiverse people in co-design processes to improve inclusion and engagement in community programming. The first case involved older adults with dementia and their care partners to develop community performing arts programming. The second project engaged a group of autistic youth to improve visit-ability at a science museum. The projects will be discussed using the lens of embodied creativity as a framework to explain the design and methods used in the different cases as well as outcomes.