Neurodiversity and creativity: catalysing change through artful agitation: a conversation with artist and researcher Dr Kai Syng Tan

Tan, Kai Syng (2022) Neurodiversity and creativity: catalysing change through artful agitation: a conversation with artist and researcher Dr Kai Syng Tan. Beshara, (21).

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Abstract

'Why is normality the gold standard, when the "norm" hasn't worked for a while? Isn’t it time for new models of leadership, and new role models? Isn't it more exciting to be non-standard, to be covered in glitter, and to embrace a phenomenal spectrum of colours and possibilities?' This is an interview with Jane Clark of Beshara Magazine, which discusses my art-psychiatry commission #MagicCarpet as the first artist in residence at the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology; Neuroscience, the genesis of the 350-member global Neurodiversity In/and Creative Research Network, and the importance of looking out of classroom windows (+ the need for new classrooms). The Beshara Magazine, an independent, non-profit publication published by the Beshara Trust (a UK-based educational charity founded in 1971, with Beshara meaning 'good news' in Aramaic), 'provides a platform for intelligent and thought-provoking material embodying a unifying perspective.

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