There are a number of blog posts I need to write about the last Mozilla Festival in the UK but I wanted to start with this one about my art piece in the all new neurodiversity space.
I started a physical mindmap on Saturday morning in the neurosiversity space and hung up information from the dyslexic advantage book, something I have written a lot about. I then invited the public to read and write on postage tags what they thought the advantages of dyslexia look like. These were hung up for others to read and explore.
Here is the document I wrote if you want to read the MIND strengths in more detail.
I left it over the weekend and let people just add more and more. I also had some great conversations with different people about the advantages. One lady didn’t know there were advantages and lived with dyslexia all her life. As a whole lots people were correctly diagnosed at University and College, which is the norm as the book says. I think I met about 4 people who were diagnosed in School.
I have some great photos and when Mozfest finished I took them with me. Reading them in full it was quite amazing to read.
Here’s the almost complete list (I couldn’t read some of them and I removed the duplicates)…
- Right maths, wrong numbers!
- Creative
- Sequencing
- Non-reading information sensitivity
- Interconnected thinking
- Spatial thinking
- Network of thoughts
- Advantages?
- Telling stories
- Attention to details
- Improvising & Creativity
- Pattern recognition / Recognition pattern
- Ability to tell stories
- Link themes
- Empathy to others
- Empathy
- Lateral thinking
- Concept formation
- Storytelling
- Crasy?
- Mapping strengths
- Roles can lead to success
- Future prediction
- Understanding
Glad I did it and the conversations were amazing, shame I couldn’t be around in the ND space all weekend. Massive thanks to the Spacewranglers of neurodiversity for accepting my session and helping out.
