IN3’s Urban Transformation and Global Change Laboratory (TURBA Lab) is pleased to invited you to the International Online Seminar «Public space, play, and neurodiversity. Challenges towards an urban European agenda» that will be held, through zoom, on Tuesday, January 24 at 11:00 h (CET).
Venue
Online
Espanya
When
24/01/2023 11.00h
Organized by
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, IN3's Urban Transformation and Global Change Laboratory (TURBA Lab)
Program
The seminar will bring together teams of experts from different countries to share their experience in projects about public space, play, and neurodiversity. Through these experiences, the event will open a debate about what has been done in Europe about this matter, what are the challenges to be addressed and how could these be tackled.
TURBA Lab will present the project ASD Publics: Activating Spaces for Neurodiversity, held in Barcelona, that aims to improve public space and particularly public playgrounds, with and for children with autism and their families.
Program
11:00 Welcome
11:10 Projects presentation
Urban Design and Planning for Autism
Valentina Talu. Università di Sassari - Dipartimento di Architettura, Design e Urbanistica (DADU). Tamalacà.
Autism Spectrum Disorder, a singular perception of the city
Marie Pieron. Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, Université de Paris - CNRS.
Play and public space… reflections from Wales
Marianne Mannello. Play Wales.
AutSPACEs: co-creating a citizen science platform
Georgia Aitkenhead, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras and Otis Smith. The Alan Turing Institute.
Activating Spaces with neuroDiverse Publics
Blanca Calvo Coixet and Raquel Colacios. Urban Transformation and Global Change Laboratory (TURBA lab), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
12:00 Discussion
Chaired by Ramon Ribera-Fumaz. Urban Transformation and Global Change Laboratory (TURBA lab), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
12:30 Closing and Farewell
Participation is free, but registration is required.