The event took the form of a conference and exhibition organised by the RCA and Imperial College to coincide with National Dyslexia Week.
De Cordova has had a long association with the RCA’s developments and innovations in this area, and was an original member of the Steering Group and Forum.
Participants from a range of backgrounds were invited to speak or present papers on how dyslexia or dyspraxia might have shaped their approaches to problem solving, or influenced their creative practices. This was followed by a panel discussion that focussed on a number of issues, including how a late diagnosis might make sense of long term issues, and how this might be different to those individuals who were aware of their learning difference from childhood.
‘Kicking an Elephant Through a Cat Flap’ was an exhibition of work produced by dyslexic and dyspraxic artists and designers associated with the RCA to coincide with the conference. The two works presented by De Cordova, ‘Sound Track to a Bodied Place’ 2016 (inkjet print) and ‘M’dear Medea’ 2012 (embroidery thread and paper) incorporated homophonic texts (where words sound alike, but have different meanings and spellings) in order to allude to uncertain narratives or interpretations that might arise out of misreading or mishearing.