Landing Zones (Unruly Ecologies. Art, Attention, Neurodiversity)
Project led by Emma Bigé, Morgan Labar, Ivana Meštrov, Joe Dumit. Project Coordinator: Lucas Fritz ESAA (École Supérieure d’Art d’Avignon) Contact: Ross Louis
The Landing Zones project (Unruly Ecologies. Art, Attention, Neurodiversity), which has received Creative Europe funding for 2025-2026, aims to foster spaces and cultures at the intersection of neurodiversity activism and ecology through the creation of a transnational digital library and installations that adapt work spaces. For several decades, neurodiversity activism and theory have been unfolding in social, cultural, and academic spheres, seeking to remind us of the threefold fact that:
• there is a multitude of ways of perceiving, interacting with, and being in the world,
• a whole series of pressures are exerted to make us believe that one way is better than others,
• it is necessary to create concrete conditions (spaces, modes of attention, resources, methodologies) to open up welcoming spaces for neurodiversity.
We research and experiment with napping practices, creating napping zones, cripping plainer language translations, and library and zine creations.
Partners forming this consortium include: the École supérieure d’art d’Avignon (Higher School of Art of Avignon); ENSBA Lyon (National School of Fine Arts of Lyon); Umjetnički Paviljon Zagreb (Art Pavilion Zagreb) and Aarhus University in Denmark.