Natasha Trotman

Natasha Trotman MA(RCA), MCSD, FRSA is a current artist in residence at Somerset House (studio 48), an Equalities Designer, Maker and Researcher whose work explores extending the frontiers of knowledge around mental difference, non-typical ways of being and marginalised experiences in addition to also reframing mainstream notions of equality, equity, diversity, and inclusion through an intersectional design lens. Natasha has worked with neurodiverse communities and people with varied abilities, including dyspraxic and autistic persons, as well as those living with a dementia. She has also worked with their carers and supporters.

Natasha completed a Masters degree in Information Experience Design at the Royal College of Art. Previously working as a Research Associate at The Royal College of Art’s Helen Hamlyn Centre for Inclusive Design (HHCD) as well as at The Wellcome Collection Hub on the Wellcome Trust and HHCD Design and The Mind Research project. research project, focused on engagement and co-creation with neurodiverse groups and neurodivergent individuals. She has exhibited widely.

She is also a SEN/D practitioner, working with disabled children and young people in workshop settings where investigative sensorial play is used to explore and build on sensory repertoires. She also works as a disability and mental health activist and highlights, amplifies and signal boosts invisible disabilities and non-typical processing and ways of being and has published a UDHEIT paper on co-creating with the neurodiverse.