What’s love got to do with neurodiversity and HE art and design?

Kai Syng Tan (Author) (2024) What’s love got to do with neurodiversity and HE art and design? Society for Research into Higher Education

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This article was published on the Society for Research into Higher Education SRHE website on 29/11/2024. Through a loved-filled Neurodiversity in the Arts Symposium directed by Dr Timothy Smith for which I was the keynote speaker, and which took place amid a severe winter storm in Helsinki, Finland, I outlined the need to dis-arm love-less stormy populist violence today, including those embodied by Musk, Trump and other self-proclaimed ‘high IQ revolutionaries’, weirdos and misfits. The 3000-word article drew on posts I had published on LinkedIn and Instagram previously, found here (15/11/2024, written in response to this Guardian article published on the same morning) and here (24/11/2024). An earlier version of the article was entitled How musk weaponises his autism — and how autistic academics, artists, activists and allies must disarm him. An abridged version focusing on the symposium is published on the CHEAD website, entitled How to curate a love-led symposium? Neurodivergent artist-academics show a way. Founded in 1965, the Society for Research into Higher Education SRHE is a UK-based international learned society concerned to advance understanding of higher education, especially through the insights, perspectives and knowledge offered by systematic research and scholarship. The Society aims to be the leading international society in the field, as to both the support and the dissemination of research.
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Abridged version: an abridged version entitled 'How to curate a love-led symposium? Neurodivergent artist-academics show a way' appeared on the Council for Higher Education in Art & Design CHEAD blog on 3rd December 2024.

Citation: Tan, Kai Syng. 2024. ‘How to Curate a Love-Led Symposium? Neurodivergent Artist-Academics Show a Way’. Council for Higher Education in Art & Design CHEAD (blog). 3 December 2024. https://www.chead.ac.uk/how-to-curate-a-love-led-symposium-neurodivergent-artist-academics-show-a-way/.

CHEAD: this is the UK representative body for 70 Higher Education institutions (HEIs) in art, design, creative media, and related disciplines.

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