Divergently Together

Working at the intersection

of disability & climate

Divergently Together

Divergently Together supports a fair and just transition to a sustainable future. It challenges stigma by showing that people with lived experience of disability have valuable skills for climate action. These include resilience, problem-solving, specialist knowledge, and creative ways of thinking. However, disabled people are still often left out of climate action and decision-making.

Unmasking Nature

‘Unmasking’ and being your authentic self through a rewilding lens. Just as biodiversity flourishes when given space to grow, many neurodivergent people thrive in freedom. It draws parallels between the two, highlighting how patterns in nature reflect neurodivergent ways of moving through the world.

Our Ecosystem

Divergently Together is a project led by artist AlanJames Burns through Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics supported by Dublin City University. Supported by Cavan County Council, Fermanagh & Omagh District Council, Dublin City Council and Cuilcagh Lakelands Geopark.The project works with a team of creatives with varied lived experiences of neurodiversity and disability, as well as a network of key partners across the intersections of neurodiversity, climate change, art and technology.

Featured Resources

Accessible communication

Report from the Accessibility and Creativity in Climate Action workshop day which was held on 1 October 2025 at DCU. The workshop was about making climate action and climate policy more accessible, using creativity to discover new ways of approaching access.

Collaborative Library

An on-going document that is made up of resources shared by collaborators, our team, workshop participants and our partners. The list covers themes such as: Access in the Arts, Creativity and Climate, Technology and much more.

Easy Read Guidance

This document is meant as a helpful guide for starting out creating Easy Read documents. It is not meant as expert advice, it is written from our research and experience from the Divergent Together project.

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“...it was way more than I would have ever imagined it to be”

Our Funders

The project is funded by the Creative Climate Action Fund (2024–2025), an initiative from the Creative Ireland Programme with Shared Island funding by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media in collaboration with the Department of the Taoiseach, and the Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland Discover Programme (2025–2026).