Same Same but Different; A practice-based exploration into the embodied experience of neurodiversity and neurodivergence and whether creativity, especially in clay can encourage a sense of wellbeing and be a vehicle for communicating personal experience

26isfam122 10.3205/26isfam122 urn:nbn:de:0183-26isfam1220 Meeting Abstract Same Same but Different; A practice-based exploration into the embodied experience of neurodiversity and neurodivergence and whether creativity, especially in clay can encourage a sense of wellbeing and be a vehicle for communicating personal experience Lucas Lucas Samantha S

University of Sunderland

author German Medical Science GMS Publishing House

Düsseldorf

610 20260612 engl This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Dieser Artikel ist ein Open-Access-Artikel und steht unter den Lizenzbedingungen der Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (Namensnennung). M0652 122 International Society for Arts and Medicine The Healing Arts – Forging Alliances of Arts & Medicine Presentation Abstracts Berlin 20260618 20260620 26isfam122 TextResearch encourages us to examine things differently. Growing up with difference, led me to explore the neurodivergent bodymind through means other than words. Working with clay enabled exploration of my feelings of my neurodivergent experience. The properties of clay emulate skin and the warmth from touch, create space to explore intangible experiences of being, resulting in tangible dialogic forms.Same Same but Different is a creative PhD investigation using clay to explore the diversity of neurodiversity, exposing similarities and differences of living in a neurodivergent bodymind through a narrative-self lens. Mapping my own neurodivergent experience with others and adopting Technologies of the self and Semi - structured interviews with intersectional neurodivergent women were undertaken, to explore how clay can encourage an embodied experience. A transdisciplinary investigation, My Body in My Hands was a cocreated social media provocation/exhibition engaging over 500 creative representations of how it feels to be in the body, highlighting diversity within neurodiversity, in concept, material and outcome. The artifacts were displayed within a touring physical exhibition and book. The ceramic dialogic forms are interchangeable assemblages, reminiscent of two-dimensional exquisite corpse drawing, a metaphor for bodymind which is not static but fluid and changed through experience and new research into neuroaesthetics reinforces that engagement with clay has a transformational effect.I propose engaging the conference in a hands-on drop-in workshop; to create a clay object in response to the provocation How does it feel in your body? Offering an alternative discourse and presenting a paper. 0 0 0 0