Resources
Consistent with our mission to help facilitate and encourage neurodiverse engagement at all stages of the planning process, the network has produced helpful toolkits, blogs, articles, and podcasts. Our goal is to promote awareness, knowledge, creative thought, and consideration throughout the industry.
The following sections includes links to webinars, articles, podcasts and the Neurodiversity In Planning toolkit.
Network publications and learning
A flagship publication of the Neurodiversity in Planning Network. The toolkit outlines and explores 7 key principles for enabling quality engagement with Neurodiverse populations through the planning and design process.
Why Planning should be more Neurodiverse
Layla Vidal-Martin MRTPI – co-founder of the Neurodiversity in Planning Network – highlights the untapped pool of neurodivergent individuals within the planning profession, discusses the creative value they could bring and suggests initiatives for how recruitment processes could be more inclusive.
Matthew Harmsworth – member of the Neurodiversity in Planning Committee – invites readers to consider how challenging it is being in environments and doing activities that are not designed for neurodivergent characteristics and needs. He shares exercises and video simulations of what it can be like to have dementia or be on the autistic spectrum and try to get around a typical neighbourhood. Find out what questions to consider through the design process and how we can be considerate of the needs of all users.
Atefeh Motamedi AssocRTPI is Strategic Planner at Atkins, co-founder of ‘Neurodiversity in Planning’, member of the RTPI General Assembly and the RTPI North West Regional Activities Committee’s Policy and Research Task Group.
Why Planning Needs Neurodiversity
In this piece written for Neurodiversity in Planning, network contributor Mollie Foley aims to reach out to other neurodiverse planners who may need to take a moment to appreciate the wonders of a brain that works a little differently.
Additional guidance
As network we believe in highlighting the good initiatives, articles and messages that other people have put forward in the interests of promoting as much good practice and awareness as possible.
Podcasts and webinars
Further links of interest
As network we believe in highlighting the good initiatives, articles and messages that other people have put forward in the interests of promoting as much good practice and awareness as possible. Here as some additional resources we wish to highlight in this regard:
by Deborah Smith
by Kyle Ezell
The Inclusion Imperative: Towards Disability-Inclusive and Accessible Urban Development Report