Inklusive Kunstvermittlung für Menschen mit Sehbee..
Inklusive Kunstvermittlung für Menschen mit Sehbeeinträchtigung in Museen
Start date: Jun 1, 2015,
End date: May 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
The KHM-Museumsverband has the strong whish to offer their immense cultural treasures in an inclusive manner to everybody.
Until now, visually-impaired visitors were only able to enjoy a painting, to comprehend its composition and subject matter in a dialogue with a docent. Since autumn 2010 specially-developed technology has made it possible to transpose a painting into a 3-D relief that visually-impaired visitors, adults as well as young people, can touch and feel. Also the second project, the recently published book "Gemeinsam anders sehen" (autumn 2014) focuses on an inclusive approach to paintings. The combination of written texts (in easy to read black letters as well as in braille) with illustrations in intensified coloured contrasts, transparent tactile sheets for better understanding the composition and auditive informations (2 CDs included in the book) offers everybody, no matter if well seeing or visually impaired or blind, a very useful medium to explore paintings.
The here submitted grant should help to compare the running projects of the KHM-Museumsverband with those of international institutions to enable an improvement of quality, to get new ideas for further projects, to work out european / international standards in development and implementation and to enlarge experience in marketing and fundraising. All the experiences should also help to benefit from synergies. This international network serves to strenghten the sensitizing of the public opinion that offers without barriers in culture and art form an indispensible contribution for an incuisive society. To this effect possibilities of art education without barriers to other target groups as people with ognitive and / or auditive disabilities shall also be developed. For this purpose meetinges lasting three days each in Austria, Germany, Finland and Great Britain are planned.
All the contributors (3-10 per mobility; art historians with experiences in guided tours for disabled people, designer, representatives form the Association for the Blind) are for many years very well experienced in art education for visually-impaired people. The meetings will be accurately planned together with representatives of the target group and of the associations for people with disabilities. Guided tours, workshops, job shadowing, discussions on topics as inclusion, Universal Design, development and production of education tools, service for the target group in the museum and on national and international marketing and fundraising are planned. The conclusions of theese meetings will criticallay be challenged to evaluate the running projects and to develop new and improved ones.
The grant supports the applicant to make an area of life accessible to visually-impaired people which was until now nearly out of reach and enables her to implement the equalisation of visually impaired people as postulated in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities — CRPD in the year 2006.
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