Workshop: Visualizing Your Inner World (first session)

What is it like to be you? Slow down and explore your personal experience of the world and Amber’s Conversation Cabinet.

How do you see the world differently from someone else? In this workshop, designer Amber van Gastel invites you to a different way of communicating. It is a way that does not start with finding the right words, but with images, objects and associations.

Located on the roof of the TU Library, you are invited to slow down and explore your personal experience of the world and Amber’s Conversation Cabinet. Using the Detailed Talks card set, you will discover how meaning emerges through intuition and metaphor. This creates space for conversations that feel more open and connected.

In this interactive session, you will experience how different people can look at the same image and connect to it in completely different ways. By sharing these associations, you learn to listen beyond language and recognize multiple perspectives without the need to resolve them.

Who is it for? Anyone interested in communication and perception is welcome. No prior knowledge of neurodiversity is required.

About the facilitator Amber van Gastel is a neurodivergent designer and researcher. After a late autism and ADHD diagnosis, she developed Detailed Talks as a tool to bridge the gap where literal language often falls short. Her work focuses on creating gentle tools for connection through lived experience and design. She believes that understanding begins when we allow multiple ways of thinking and being to exist next to each other.