Stimpunks is a connected ecosystem of ideas, tools, patterns, and environments. This map shows how the major parts of the project fit together.

Some people enter through lived experience. Some enter through patterns, design, or philosophy. All of these paths connect to the same larger system: understanding neurodivergent life and redesigning environments where different minds can thrive.

The Universe at a Glance

STRUCTURAL PILLARS
Values, philosophy, and moral foundation
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FRAMEWORK
How the system fits together
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DESIGN METHOD (ARLES)
Attention → Regulation → Language → Environment → Systems
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PATTERN LANGUAGE
Recurring structures of neurodivergent life
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PATTERN LIBRARY
Core patterns like Monotropism, Sensory Load, and Processing Time
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PATTERN RECIPES
Ways patterns combine to redesign real situations
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ENVIRONMENTS
Classrooms • Workplaces • Meetings • Learning Spaces • Cavendish Space
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SYSTEMS CHANGE
Rethinking institutions, norms, and infrastructure

This map is one way to see the whole project. Another way is to follow how people often move through it.

Experience
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Pattern
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Language
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Recipe
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Environment
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System

1. Structural Pillars

This is the philosophical foundation of Stimpunks: dignity, interdependence, authenticity, disabled-led knowledge, and the belief that many struggles come from broken systems rather than broken people.

• The Structural Pillars of Stimpunks
• Mission
• Philosophy
• Our Lens

Question answered: What does Stimpunks stand for?

2. Framework

The framework explains how the major layers of the project fit together: values, method, language, patterns, recipes, and environments.

• The Stimpunks Framework

Question answered: How does the whole system fit together?

3. Design Method (ARLES)

The Stimpunks Design Method provides the core analytic path:

Attention → Regulation → Language → Environment → Systems

This method helps people understand how minds work, how environments affect regulation, how language shapes understanding, and how systems create or remove barriers.

• The Stimpunks Design Method
• The Stimpunks Design Language

Question answered: How do we analyze and redesign environments?

4. Experiences

Many readers begin with something they are feeling but cannot yet explain.

• Experiences of Neurodivergent Life
• Sensory Overload
• Deep Attention
• Processing Time
• Social Exhaustion

Question answered: What am I experiencing?

5. Pattern Language

The pattern language describes recurring realities of neurodivergent life. It translates lived experience into reusable design knowledge.

• A Pattern Language for Neurodivergent Life
• Core Patterns of Neurodivergent Life
• Pattern Library
• The Stimpunks Pattern Graph

Question answered: What recurring patterns shape neurodivergent life?

Early core patterns include:

• Pattern 01 — Monotropism
• Pattern 02 — Spiky Profiles
• Pattern 03 — Sensory Load
• Pattern 04 — Processing Time
• Pattern 05 — Deep Attention
• Pattern 06 — Social Energy
• Pattern 07 — Regulation First

6. Pattern Recipes

Pattern recipes show how multiple patterns can be combined to redesign real situations.

• Pattern Recipes
• Designing a Neurodivergent Classroom
• Designing Inclusive Meetings
• Preventing Autistic Burnout

Question answered: How do patterns become practical design?

7. Environments

Recipes become meaningful when they shape real environments.

• Designing Neurodivergent Environments
• Neurodivergent Classrooms
• Neurodivergent Workplaces
• Inclusive Meetings
• Learning Spaces
• Cavendish Space

Question answered: What does this look like in real spaces and practices?

8. Systems and Infrastructure

The outer layer of the Stimpunks universe asks why environments are often broken in the first place and what new systems need to be built instead.

• Broken Systems, Not Broken People
• The Myth of the “Average User”
• Consent Beats Compliance
• The Myth of Meritocracy
• Care Is Infrastructure

Question answered: What broader systems create these barriers, and what should replace them?

How to Use the Universe Map

• Start with experience if you are trying to understand something in your life.
• Start with patterns if you want the deeper structures.
• Start with recipes if you want practical design moves.
• Start with environments if you want to redesign a classroom, workplace, meeting, or space.
• Start with philosophy or systems if you want the broadest lens.

No matter where someone enters, the paths connect.

Stimpunks is building a design ecosystem that moves from lived experience to patterns, from patterns to environments, and from environments to systems change.

                         SYSTEMS
                     (institutions)

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                      ENVIRONMENTS
                      (real spaces)

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                        DESIGN
                (methods & recipes)

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                          │
                       PATTERNS
           (structures of neurodivergent life)

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                          │
                      EXPERIENCES
                    (lived reality)