neurodivergence – SLRandom ArtCrew

Why Second Life Still Has a Future

Black and white charcoal drawing of a person at a desk looking at a computer screen showing the Second Life login page, with a dim room, keyboard, lamp, and personal items around them.

Second Life’s onboarding has improved. Retention hasn’t. Here’s why people leave, what actually makes them stay, and why the community matters more than the platform.

Small Spaces, Big Culture: Why Second Life’s Quiet Destinations Matter

Charcoal-style line drawing of two friends sitting at a small café table beneath a rose arch, surrounded by handwritten notes about Second Life culture, friendship, seasonal care, and digital spaces. The café setting includes coffee cups, pastries, flowers, chalkboard signs, and messages about quiet places becoming meaningful through care and connection.

Not every meaningful Second Life destination has to be vast. Sometimes a café with roses and a chalkboard is enough. A reflection on why small spaces, seasonal care, and friendship are the real culture of the grid.

FLARE-UP at Goldsmiths CCA: Illness, Disability and Contemporary Art

Charcoal-style line drawing showing a seated figure with their back turned, surrounded by handwritten phrases about illness, disability, neurodivergence, Deafness, care, access, rage, joy, mourning, and resistance. A sketch of Goldsmiths CCA appears in the background, with the phrase “The body refuses to be neatly displayed

Goldsmiths CCA’s FLARE-UP explores illness, disability, neurodivergence and Deafness through contemporary art, access, care, activism and embodied experience.