Designing Instruments of Change - Neurodiversity, mindset shift, and the extended mind

How can we design learning encounters that extend what neurodivergent students perceive as possible for themselves? That question guides Designing Instruments of Change, the exegesis of Alisdair Gurling's practice-informed design PhD at WonderLab, Monash University, read aloud chapter by chapter. The preface and the interludes are read by the author; everything else is read by a synthetic voice. It follows a series of co-learning workshops with neurodivergent young people, the instruments of change a learner can assemble to extend their own cognition (digital prosthetics, mind-body strategies, relational practices and space-making practices), and the Neurodiversity Playbook and Neurodiversity.tools database the work produced. Read along, with the figures and tables, at phd.neurodiversity.tools