This project explores how online environments can be reshaped to support wellbeing, connection, and inclusion — particularly for neurodivergent and marginalised artists, researchers, and community practitioners — and asks how digital tools and platforms might be reimagined to enable trust, empathy, and collective care, rather than isolation or burnout.
The main aim is to develop and share practical and creative methods for building equitable online collaborations. Through a series of participatory workshops, artistic experiments, and reflective discussions, the team will co-create a framework for a digital care manual. This will include accessible facilitation tools, communication practices, and small digital interventions that make collective work more sustainable and inclusive.
The project’s innovation lies in centering neurodivergent experience and artistic practice as sources of insight for rethinking how we gather and collaborate digitally. It blends lived experience with research and creative experimentation, producing both conceptual and practical outcomes that can be applied in the arts, education, and community sectors.
The team brings a unique combination of skills in participatory art, collective facilitation, digital culture, and neurodivergent advocacy. They have extensive experience designing inclusive spaces for co-creation and supporting others to work collaboratively across distance and difference. Aligned with the INCLUDE+ Principles, this project values all forms of knowledge — academic, artistic, and lived. It contributes to building equitable digital futures by foregrounding care, access, and shared responsibility. It will generate open-access materials and public dialogues that invite broader engagement with the question ‘What does it mean to care collectively in digital times?‘.
Team
Zofia Kuligowska – Fundacja Przebłysk
Anchor Collective team members: Anna Desponds, Roma Kwiatkiewicz, Richard Stone, Bryony Hussey, Marcus Russell Slater, Justyna Scheuring, Aleksandra Pieńkosz, Hanna Suda, Wojtek Bernatowicz, Zofia Kuligowska