Audio edition
Neuroformer, read aloud
The whole exegesis as sound: 6 chapters in 41 sections, three interludes in the author's own voice, and the lexicon. about 6.5 hours in all. Listen instead of reading, or alongside it; the words on the page are the transcript, and the two stay in step.
The recordings are being produced now and will be published here section by section. Durations below are estimates from the text.
- Runtime
- 6 h 28 min
- Chapters
- 6
- Sections
- 41
- Interludes
- 3
Three ways to listen
Read and listen
In the reader
A play button on every section. The paragraph being read is tinted as it is spoken, so eye and ear move together; switch the tint to a margin bar if it distracts.
Audio first
Listen mode
The running text steps aside. Figures, lexicon entries and callouts surface at the moment the narration reaches them, like a slow, narrated gallery.
Podcast feed
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Each chapter is an episode with section markers, so the exegesis can travel: on a walk, on the train, offline. Subscribe once and new chapters arrive as they are finished.
The chapters
arriving published
Fit the First
Dolphin Diving
In which this practice-informed research is mobilised by theory to create an informed context for inquiry.
- —Interlude: Dolphin Diving read by the author2 min
- 1The Boat50 min
- 1.1Introduction2 min
- 1.2Positionality: What I Brought with Me1 parts10 min
- 1.3How These Ideas Matured5 min
- 1.4Why This Work, Why Now?2 min
- 1.5The Challenge of Compatibility4 min
- 1.6Methodology3 parts8 min
- 1.7Research Design3 parts5 min
- 1.8Methods3 parts6 min
- 1.9Workshop Trajectories2 parts4 min
- 1.10Research Questions and Contributions2 min
- 1.11What Does Success Look Like, and Who Gets to Define It?1 min
- 1.12Boundaries of the Inquiry3 parts2 min
- 1.13Conclusion1 min
- 2The Ocean1 h 30 min
- 2.1Introduction: A Narratively Informed Literature Review4 min
- 2.2Dis/ability & Neurodiversity: A Foundational Re-framing6 parts17 min
- 2.3Mindset Shift, Autonomy & Change1 parts8 min
- 2.4Learning and Transformation1 parts12 min
- 2.5Technology, Cybernetics, and Extended Cognition8 parts23 min
- 2.6Design, Creativity & Play5 parts23 min
- 2.7Conclusion4 min
Fit the Second
Travels
In which the messy reality of fieldwork, workshops, creative practice and iterative designerly discovery is documented.
- —Interlude: Travels read by the author2 min
- 3Ugly Ducklings1 h 43 min
- 3.1Introduction2 min
- 3.2What did I do?2 min
- 3.3Eggs (Initial Realisations)3 parts12 min
- 3.4Ducklings (The Messy Middle)5 parts1 h 20 min
- 3.5Instruments of Change: A Practice Overview4 min
- 3.6What Took Flight2 min
- 4Creative Practice46 min
- 4.1Introduction3 parts12 min
- 4.2For the Community of Experience (Neurodivergent Learners)3 parts16 min
- 4.3For the Community of Care (Space Makers: Teachers, Facilitators and Parents)3 parts17 min
- 4.4Conclusion1 min
Fit the Third
Territories
In which we explore the ideas that have been surfaced and refined throughout this research, and we see how they may be used beyond this project.
- —Interlude: Territories read by the author2 min
- 5Contributions54 min
- 5.1Introduction2 min
- 5.2Exploring the Terrain2 min
- 5.3Research Orientation: A Contribution to Practice-Informed Design Research2 parts15 min
- 5.4Designing Workshops: Insights and Outputs for the Neurodivergent Community2 parts17 min
- 5.5Designing Transformation: Theorising from a Transformative Design Practice2 parts15 min
- 5.6An expansive view of cognition3 min
- 6Reasons to Be Excited!15 min
- 6.1Introduction1 min
- 6.2Conclusion2 parts4 min
- 6.3What's Next: Invitations for Future inquiry1 parts5 min
- 6.4The Stilts2 min
- 6.5For the Stilt People2 min
Appendix A
Prolegomena
A designerly practice lexicon of key concepts, words and ideas
How the audio is made
The body of the exegesis is narrated by a synthetic voice produced with ElevenLabs, chosen by ear and kept the same from the first section to the last. The three interludes that open each Fit are read by Alisdair himself, over a light soundscape that sits well below the voice and can be muted.
What you hear is the exegesis, not a summary. Section headings are announced, figures are read by number and caption, and quotations are marked as quotations. Citations in parentheses are left out of the narration so the argument runs unbroken; the author's name stays where the sentence needs it, and every reference remains in the text and the bibliography.
The narration is aligned to the text sentence by sentence. That alignment is what lets the reader highlight the passage being spoken, lets listen mode show the right figure at the right moment, and lets you move between reading and listening without losing your place.
Listening on your terms
- Speed from 0.8× to 2×, and the position in every section is remembered on this device.
- The player works by keyboard and with a screen reader; the current paragraph is exposed as text, so nothing is audio-only.
- Highlighting can be a soft tint or a thin bar in the margin, or switched off.
- Everything here is offered as a way of reading, not an accommodation. Reach for whichever instrument suits the day.