Arrive Calm

Hidden Kingdoms is a BOM immersive Studios project. Our first prototype is funded by UKRI. The app is the first project by BOM immersive Studios, a new strand of work by art, tech and science organisation BOM. Through ideation with BOM Immersive staff and our talented residents (artists, producers and technologists) we came up with the idea of an app that revealed beautiful and hidden worlds to support people on their journeys. Since 2016 BOM has held neurodiversity at the heart of it’s engagement work; working with autistic adults on a building refurbishment to ensure an autism friendly setting, running pioneering creative and digital skills development for autistic adults and nurturing autistic practitioners through a person-led professional development programme. This work and being an organisation led by neurodivergent staff meant that we felt it was important to create an app that supported neurodivergent people to lead more independent lives. Through research and anecdotal evidence we learned that city centres and public transport can be a very stressful place for people to navigate and so we developed Hidden Kingdoms to try and alleviate these experiences. We were able to gain UKRI support to bring this idea to life and over the past 6 months a creative team have been working together to bring a prototype of Hidden Kingdoms to life.