Imagination is the most advanced human faculty — The imagination is that faculty which gives form to thought — … form capable of being uttered in shape or in sound, or in any mode upon which the senses can lay hold. It is, therefore, that faculty in [hu]mans which is like […] the prime operation of the power…

Personal essay about needing, finding and freeing space — “Ideas, representations or values which do not succeed in making their mark on space, and thus generating (or producing) an appropriate morphology, will lose all pith and become mere signs, resolve themselves into abstract descriptions, or mutate into fantasies.” — Henri Lefebvre. (1974/91). The Production of Space. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing…

Words, Not Walls — DYSPLA Founder, Lennie Varvarides speaks on why poetry is urgently needed in areas of high deprivation Before you begin reading this post, let me say that I am not an Education Specialist — but I am an expert on how society and schools fail people with Learning Differences through the work I do at DYSPLA. I identify as Working Class…

LIKE WHO? …I hear you ask…, well, like; Agatha Christie, F. Scott Fitzgerald, W. B. Yeats, Jules Verne, John Irving, Richard Ford, George Bernard Shaw, Octavia Butler, Sally Gardner, Walter Disney, Jeanne Betancourt, Patricia Polacco, Lynda La Plante, Victor Villasenor, Robert Benton, Steve Mcqueen, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Steven Spielberg…

16 short moments of loathing — I Dear Brian, Eagerness grows less eager throughout the month. Have you noticed that? Today is another disappointing Sunday full of broken promises, un-rectified with their second chance due to unresponsive energy. Even with your good intentions, good advice receives no response. …

Review by Laiza Silva Goncalves — Neurodivergent (Autism and ADHD) creative, Isabella Sperotto first connected with DYSPLA during their Storymaker Residency in 2020, where she made it to the final 8 with her synopsis of, “The Yellow Traffic Light”. Sperotto has also been featured in the DYSPLA Podcast and was a participant in the DYSPLA Colonialism…

A monthly British round-up of events by or for Neurodivergent people — DYSPLA makes experimental award-winning art with British Neurodivergent Storymakers through subversive means. With the continuous support of Arts Council England, DYSPLA is pioneering ways of mixing new technology such as volumetric capture and poetic storymaking. They are artists and art producers who predominantly work in Moving-Image, VR, AR, photography, and poetry to illuminate the ‘Neurodivergent Aesthetic (NDA)’, a term they coined in 2018 at the first DYSPLA International Moving Image Festival, in London. The ‘NDA’ is the emblem of playful and intuitive storymaking, representing the experience and process of making as a Neurodivergent artist.

A monthly British round-up of events by or for Neurodivergent people — DYSPLA is an experimental multi-media art studio developing ‘Neurodivergent Storymakers,’ through subversive means. We predominantly work in Moving-Image, VR, AR, Photography and Poetry. With the continuous support of Arts Council England, DYSPLA is pioneering ways of mixing new technology and poetic story-making. DYSPLA is a celebration of creative difference in the form of gritty, raw, complicated, explorative, and esoteric artmaking. We only collaborate with and produce the work of Neurodivergent artists, raising awareness…

A monthly British round-up of events for or by Neurodivergent people and a case for the existence of the Neurodivergent Aesthetic (NDA). — DYSPLA is an experimental multi-media art studio developing ‘Neurodivergent Storymakers’ through subversive means. We are predominantly working in, Moving-Image, VR, AR, Photography, and Poetry. DYSPLA is a celebration of creative difference in the form of gritty, raw, complicated, explorative, and esoteric artmaking.