bio
With twenty years experience in communities, organisations and institutions across Australia, North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East & North Africa, I am an interdisciplinary researcher, facilitator, curator, partnerships specialist and producer driven to “engage with difference that makes a difference to what was initially thought,” (Bhambra).
Starting in community arts and cultural development, I spent the first fifteen years of my career producing and curating experimental arts programs: from capacity building and site-specific underground festivals to high profile conferences, award-winning urban placemaking and participatory heritage initiatives.
My interdisciplinary research practice then took the lead where I have collaborated with an international network on responsible research and innovation: from radical pedagogy, affect theory, and decolonialism to neurodiversity, collective intelligence, decentralised technologies and social innovation. And while I have coordinated winning grant proposals to the value of 1million+ euro, co-edited international journals and published book chapters with leading academic publishers, my research is always research-creation, ie. It results in a co-created output.
After five years of maternity leave caring for our two daughters, the eldest who lives with Down Syndrome, I am passionately stepping back into the workforce. My dream is to contribute to a movement of neurodiverse leaders. And I want to co-create neurodiverse care tactics for collective well-being in the process.
If you’re curious about what this means or just curious about me, I’d love to connect so get in touch. Based in Italy, I was born and bred on Gadigal land (Sydney, Australia), and have lived in seven countries on five continents, so I’m sure we’ll find something in common.
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contact
email: anique.vered [ at ] protonmail [ dot ] com
linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/aniquevered
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