We are looking forward to seeing you at our next Creative Connection Club, a space for Neurodivergent adults to connect over creative exploration.
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When & Where
Date: Thursday 18th September 2025
Time: 7 to 9pm (please do not arrive early – doors open at 7)
Location: Viking Hall, Queen’s Road Baptist Church, Broadstairs, CT10 1NU (see “Access & Transportation” details below for public transport and car parking details.)
What is the Creative Connection Club?
The NDFT Creative Connection Club is a programme designed to complement our regular social meetups and coffee mornings, offering a dedicated space for Neurodivergent adults to explore a range of creative activities shaped by community interest. Each month, sessions are facilitated by professional artists and practitioners, with a focus on creativity, connection, and environmental sustainability.
Mapping Minds to Make Space part 1, Workshop Details
This two-part workshop series invites participants to explore how we each perceive and remember space differently—especially through the lens of Neurodivergence. Facilitated by Studio HE’s Hubert Zirconium, the sessions blend playful experimentation with collaborative making, drawing from architecture, design, and cultural storytelling. Participants will benefit from attending both workshops, but it is not essential.
Workshop 1 (18th Sept) begins with drawing exercises and sensory mapping, revealing how personal memory, attention, and emotion shape our interpretation of shared environments. We’ll use these explorations to reflect on what is often overlooked in conventional design—and what might be needed instead. The session fosters open discussion, slow looking, and honest reimagining.
Workshop 2 (16th Nov) shifts into making. Using scrap materials, light, sound, and texture, we prototype spatial interventions that respond to the needs surfaced in the first session. Participants will explore at multiple scales—from paper tests to body-based gestures—culminating in a collective construction that adapts and transforms our environment.
These workshops are particularly suited for those interested in inclusive, adaptive design. No prior experience is necessary—just a willingness to explore, make, and share. All materials provided (though you’re welcome to bring your own tools, scraps, offcuts, or sensory objects).
Expect conversation, creativity, and some mess. These sessions are not about polished outcomes, but about the process—what it draws out of us, what it reveals, and how it reshapes the way we understand and occupy space
Workshop schedule
- 7-7.15pm – Arrival and grounding
- Soft entry: informal welcome, time to settle, explore tactile table
- Introduction to workshop aims: space, perception, Neurodivergence, sustainability
- Group agreement: no pressure, work at your pace, all responses valid
- 7.15-7.40pm – Drawing and perception exercise
- Prompt: “Draw the space from memory“
- Timed rounds: what’s fixed (walls, objects), what’s felt (sounds, temperature, atmosphere), what’s forgotten or avoided
- Brief share back and collective reflection
- Discuss: “Why do our drawings differ? What shaped what we remembered?”
- 7.40-8.30pm – Mapping the Room (Spatial Reflection & Testing)
- Hand out simplified base plans or blank room templates
- Participants annotate, layer, or sketch onto these:
- areas of comfort/discomfort
- where sound/light was too much
- movement paths, avoidances, fixations
- Move around the space as needed to “test” or validate thoughts
- Periodic guided prompts:
- “Where did you feel pulled?”
- What felt wrong or not designed for you?”
- “How would you change this corner?”
- What elements (light, texture, layout) can you now name as sensory triggers or comforts?”
*Drawings are not necessarily formal or to reality. They can map/note with words or be colours/collages of impressions. They can illustrate issues or propose interventions!
- 8.50-9pm – Closing & Transition to Workshop 2
- ·Brief summary of group discoveries
- Explain how Workshop 2 will use these ideas to prototype spatial responses (starting small and building out)
Facilitator Bio
Hubert Zirconium is the creative direction behind Studio HE, a multidisciplinary practice blending architecture, design, and community engagement. Drawing on a rich background in spatial design, Hubert creates playful, process-led workshops that empower participants to explore & express diverse ways of experiencing & remembering space. Their work bridges creative practice with social impact, focusing on adaptive design that responds to human experience, culture and collective memory. Operating outside traditional industry boundaries, Hubert brings a fresh, empathetic approach that values every voice in the creative process. This workshop benefits from their professional expertise and lived curiosity, encouraging participants to co-create environments that resonate deeply with personal and shared histories.
He initiated projects like the LDF’17 “Brixton Playing Fields”, “Cultural Bridge” in Alberta, Canada, and collaborated with the People Dem Collective on workshops exploring “home.” Alongside this, Studio HE was awarded Most Innovate Boutique Interior design & Architectural Studio in 2024.
Is the Creative Connection Club for you?
Who are our workshops for?
Neurodivergent Friends workshops are for Neurodivergents adults from all backgrounds and all abilities, whether diagnosed, self-identifying or questioning*.
*Neuro-curious (questioning whether you might be Neurodivergent) and self-diagnosed/self-identifying individuals are absolutely welcome.
Who are our workshops NOT for? (must read)
Neurodivergent Friends workshops are not for anyone seeking unpaid emotional labour from our community.
Additionally, they are not a place for you to carry out research, arrange consultations or solicit feedback or gather information for your own agenda.
Finally, they are not for anyone being paid to attend on behalf of an organisation.
If you have a feeling that this might be you, please send us an email at info@ndft.org.uk and we’ll do our best to assist you appropriately.
The only non-Neurodivergent people welcome at this event are support-people/caregivers and potentially venue staff.
Only adults who are 18 years old or older can attend our events. Even if accompanied by a parent or guardian, we cannot allow under-18s to attend. This policy is in place to ensure the safeguarding, safety and well-being of everyone involved, including yours.
Welcome Pack & Code of Conduct
We ask all participants of our Creative Connection Club to read, agree and comply with our code of conduct, therefore ensuring the safety of everyone involved as well as their own.
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Access and Transportation
Travelling by Public Transport
Bus Stop ‘Baptist Church’ with buses 8A breeze; 8X breeze; 9X; 69; 946; Loop.
Travelling by Car
Carparks (charges apply), from closest to furthest to venue:
Crofts Place; Albion Street; Chandos Square; Broadstairs Station (train station).
Free street parking:
All street parking spaces labelled as “pay and display” are free after 6pm across Thanet. High street; Pierremonth Avenue; York Avenue; York Street; Belvedere Road; The Vale.
See our venue’s visual story below for visual information about access and transportation.
Venue’s Visual Story
Our visual story is a handy document that shows you what to expect about the venue and where things are. Read it before you come, we hope it helps you enjoy our Creative Connection Club even more!
Is Booking Required?
We recommend booking in advance because we limit the number of tickets available to book for safeguarding reasons. Therefore, once maximum capacity is reached, we won’t be able to let anyone else in.
You don’t have to book a ticket to come, however, it’s the only way to absolutely guarantee your place for the Creative Connection Club.
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