The workshop leader is Hestia Peppe, Access Space Artist in Residence

Divination is the name given to the ways in which people have, throughout history, sought answers to questions for which they otherwise unable to determine an answer.

Common forms of divination are pendulum dowsing, tarot card reading, palm reading, and the I Ching.

Artists, writers, readers, and makers are invited to come together to explore the potential of working with the mistakes, troubles, and mysteries of process rather than against them. We will examine ideas such as debugging, hacking and self diagnosis in relation to divination.

Hestia Peppé is a neuro-atypical artist, researcher and writer, working on a PhD concerned with divination as an expanded practice of speculative reading, at Sheffield Hallam University. In July this year she was Access Space Artist in Residence.

This afternoon workshop will introduce the ancient and resurgent practice of divination in relation to the computational application of pseudo-randomness in contemporary technology. Together we will try out some divinatory gestures and methods and investigate what can open up in process whenwe do not attach significance to outcomes or mastery.

We will consider the challenges presented by divination to goal directed assumptions about making in relation to the emerging paradigm of neurodiversity, which through the self-diagnosis and self-advocacy of neuro-atypical people seeks to understand and support 'all kinds of minds'.

Neurodiversity is understood to be intersectional with existing movements in disability,decolonisation, anti-racism, anti-fascism, feminism, climate justice, and LGBTQIA and worker solidarity.