Community Design Charrette: Designing for Neurodiversity in Built Environments
Who: Eskenazi School Interior Design Program
Where : Indiana Resource Center for Autism
When : 09/19/2025, 10AM to 4PM
How : Space design workshop with information session
Why : (For them) commemorating 100 years of program, (for me) Neurodivergence is interesting topic for me.
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After finding Valiz’s Exhibiting for Multiple Senses, I briefly wondered if the workshop was necessary. Why attend, when the very resource I had hoped for was already in hand? Yet being present brought its own value—meeting faculty, trying out neurodivergent design exercises, and sharing the atmosphere of ideas in motion.
I especially appreciated my conversation with Rebecca Martinez, director of the autism center, who spoke about girls and women masking their neurodivergent traits. People teamed-up and thought through universal design and how the center might open itself more fully to inclusivity. Other moments lingered too: the interior design student toolbox, and Sherwin-Williams’ color book with shades named “evergreen fog,” “rejuvenate,” “lullaby.”
And as an unexpected gift, I discovered a center I hadn’t known before. They’ll host a NeurodiversiTea Open House next Thursday, September 25—a quiet invitation to return.
Where : Indiana Resource Center for Autism
When : 09/19/2025, 10AM to 4PM
How : Space design workshop with information session
Why : (For them) commemorating 100 years of program, (for me) Neurodivergence is interesting topic for me.
See the Poster
After finding Valiz’s Exhibiting for Multiple Senses, I briefly wondered if the workshop was necessary. Why attend, when the very resource I had hoped for was already in hand? Yet being present brought its own value—meeting faculty, trying out neurodivergent design exercises, and sharing the atmosphere of ideas in motion.
I especially appreciated my conversation with Rebecca Martinez, director of the autism center, who spoke about girls and women masking their neurodivergent traits. People teamed-up and thought through universal design and how the center might open itself more fully to inclusivity. Other moments lingered too: the interior design student toolbox, and Sherwin-Williams’ color book with shades named “evergreen fog,” “rejuvenate,” “lullaby.”
And as an unexpected gift, I discovered a center I hadn’t known before. They’ll host a NeurodiversiTea Open House next Thursday, September 25—a quiet invitation to return.
