S2 Ep1: Autistic Affordances: design thinking for self-emergence

This episode introduces the concepts of 'affordances', 'disaffordances', and 'dysaffordances'; concepts from design thinking that have a lot to offer the project of reframing the value and importance of recognising and embracing what our bodyminds afford us to do, experience, understand. TRANSCRIPT This episode mentions: A designer's approach: how can autistic adults with learning disabilities be involved in the design process?, By Katie Gaudion https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/43099267.pdf Activist Affordances: how disabled people improvise more habitable worlds By Arseli Dokumaci Design Justice: commuity-led practices to build the worlds we need, by Sasha Constranza-Chock ___________ The Unmasking Unschool Podcast is for autistic visionaries, creatives and change-makers. Who are seeking to exit the burnout cycles, pathology paradigms, masks and self-negations of the past that keep you stuck, and want to realise the self-reinventions, life pivots and culture-shifting projects to become your boldest most authentic self. Hosted by Louisa Shaeri, artist, coach, cultural activator, founder of SOLA Systems. Learn more at solasystems.xyz