This project explores whether art can reduce stigma around mental health and neurodiversity. Through community-based exhibitions, participatory coloring events, and fundraising for autism support organizations, the artist reframes help-seeking as acceptable and shared. The work positions art as a tool for visibility, dialogue, and collective healing.

This research examines how public engagement in science is shaped not just by researchers and audiences, but by institutions, environments, and material objects. By following PhD researchers across Europe, it investigates how engagement practices emerge, why they often remain exclusionary, and how understanding these “actors” can make science communication more inclusive.