New Kinds of Minds

The dataset

Everything on the map is a row in a file you can download, cite, and correct. Version 0.1.0, regenerated 2026-09-09.

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The data is published under CC BY 4.0: use it for anything, credit New Kinds of Minds. The code is MIT. Every record carries the page it was verified against and the date, so a reader can check the claim rather than trust the map.

How a record is built

A record is one initiative: a name, a place, a one-paragraph description written in plain terms, and a small set of classifications. Three of those classifications do most of the analytical work.

Kind is the initiative's main activity. Eight values, each drawn with its own mark on the map, so that a region can be read at a glance as a pattern of shapes rather than a rainbow of dots.

  • Peer communityNetworks run by and for neurodivergent people
  • Advocacy and rightsPolitical, legal, and policy work
  • Arts and cultureCollectives, studios, theatre, festivals
  • ResearchLabs, centres, participatory inquiry
  • EducationSchools, learning projects, training
  • Work and livelihoodEmployment, cooperatives, enterprise
  • Care and clinicalTherapeutic and health services
  • Media and publishingMagazines, podcasts, archives

Leadership records whether the initiative describes itself as run by neurodivergent people, by families and professionals, or by a mix. This is the fault line the movement itself argues about most, and the atlas will not guess it: the value is unknown unless the initiative says so.

Focus lists the forms of neurodivergence the initiative names. The list includes autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and the other familiar categories, and also Mad Pride, psychiatric survivor, and hearing-voices movements, which share the neurodiversity argument even where they refuse the word. The About page says why the list is provisional.

Fields

id             kebab-case, stable, unique
name           name as used internationally
name_local     name in the initiative's own language, or null
summary        one or two plain sentences, up to 320 characters
type           advocacy | community | arts | research | education | work | care | media
focus          list of focus slugs (see data/TAXONOMY.md)
leadership     nd-led | mixed | ally-led | unknown
mode           physical | online | hybrid
country        ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
country_name   country in English
region         city or region
lat, lng       WGS84 coordinates of the city
languages      ISO 639-1 codes
url            official website
source_url     page the facts were verified against
founded        year, or null
added          YYYY-MM-DD, date the record entered the atlas
verified       YYYY-MM-DD, date it was last checked
added_by       editorial | community
notes          moderator notes, or null

The full schema, with the reasoning behind each field, is in data/SCHEMA.md. The taxonomy, with its known problems, is in data/TAXONOMY.md.

What is planned

A read-only API with the same records; per-record history, so that corrections are visible rather than silent; a field for network membership, so that federations and their members can be drawn as links; and translations of summaries into the languages the initiatives work in. Each of these is a small change to the file, which is the point of keeping the file simple.