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Sensory Street

Universities of Oxford and Reading

Research | Immersive experience

Our Wellcome Trust funded project conducts research and educates people on how public spaces are experienced by autistic people with sensory processing differences and how these places can become more enabling.

Watch the videos below to find out more about our research and Sensory Supermarket immersive experience.

Contact

Please get in touch with us at
sensorystreet@psy.ox.ac.uk
Or follow us on social media to learn more about the project

We are going to be featured tonight (Wed 30th) at 6:30pm on BBC1's South Today. We are grateful this project is spreading awareness about how autistic people are disabled by public places and how they can be made to be more enabling. Tune in! #AutismAcceptance #autismawareness #sensoryprocessing #sensory #SPD #autism #research #bbc #OT #psychology You can now view the videos from our Sensory Supermarket event on our website and YouTube channel! Thanks to Molly at See Speak Hear for the wonderful videography. Let us know what you think 😁 https://buff.ly/3XfwWpX It is great to read the new bsi guide: design for the mind - neurodiversity and the built environment. There is so much overlap with what we have found in our research, supporting how public places can be designed to be more enabling for autistic people! #autism #sensoryprocessing #SPD #architecture #builtenvironment #inclusion We couldn’t have created our recent event without the support of @SensorySpectacle, who designed our supermarket space and led people through our event across the two days. Becky has extensive experience in exploring sensory processing differences through creative workshops, and we’re so grateful to have had her supporting ours! We’re excited to say that our research paper '“It Is a Big Spider Web of Things”: Sensory Experiences of Autistic Adults in Public Spaces' is available online with Autism in Adulthood! Thank you to everyone who contributed including our fabulous research team and all the people involved in our feedback and focus groups. We also have a more accsessible version of all the info from the project on our website (link in bio!) @theanxiousscientist @thecommuni_cat @21andsensory Within our event we had the chance for people to enter the Sensory Supermarket in two different states. One of these was designed to highlight some of the challenges people described to us in our focus groups. The second time around we made some very simple changes to the space to explore changes that businesses could do to make spaces more inclusive. Interested in learning more? Visit our website to read more including our booklet from the event. “I just focused on my shopping list and missed so many things the sounds were so distracting… When the environment was adjusted it’s like everything came into focus - the aisle names, products and other people.” While we were creating our event in Dagenham, we heard the news that our research paper all about the project has been accepted by the journal Autism in Adulthood! We can’t wait to share what we have learnt and are excited to see it in print soon :) Thank you to our research team such as @theanxiousscientist, @thecommunicat and @21andsensoryfor bringing such a range of different expertise and experiences to our project. We were lucky to have the chance to bring their skills together in our event to create something in collaboration with the autistic community. Visit our website to learn more about our team and our findings
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