An opportunity to spend six months working with Black Laboratory, an award-winning animation and development studio to investigate using remote puppetry to develop indirect conversation tools for people with alternative communication preferences.
You will be exploring the potential of non-human puppet/animation characters as communication aids or facilitators, working with people who are diagnosed or self-identify as Autistic or with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and experience significant barriers with face to face communication.
We recognise that ASD is clinical language and does not resonate with everybody, see note on terminology further down this page.
You will be using puppix® puppets to trial ways in which they can overcome barriers to face to face communication, whether in person or online.
We will award one person £12,000 for six months at 2.5 days/week based at Black Laboratory and the Pervasive Media Studio.