Access for Disabled People workshop 24-25.5.2011
The Accessibility and Exhibits Network organizes a pre-conference workshop in Warsaw at this year's ECSITE Conference
The "Accessibilty and Exhibits Network" formed at last year's ECSITE conference of science centres and museums will be running a two-day pre-conference workshop on 24-25 May at this year's ECSITE Conference of science centres and science museums in Warsaw.
At 100 Euros (£90 approx.), the two day workshop is good value. Three disabled or deaf professionals are part of the team who run the workshop, including Hoelle Corvest, who is blind, and Eric Lawrin, who is deaf, from the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris.
The seminar will also be of interest to collegues who do not work in science centres and museums.
Bookings are made on the ECSITE website: http://www.ecsite.eu/annual_conference/register?destination=node/add/conference-registration
For further information contact:
Nathalie Puzenat
nathalie.puzenat(a)universcience.fr
tel: 0033 1 40 74 80 11
Workshop Programme Information
- What does accessibility really mean?
- Who can benefit from accessibly designed exhibits? Is physical access enough?
- What are the most recent legal duties, what are international policies to promote cultural equality?
- How to consider accessibility not only as technicals constraints but as a creative challenge?
- How to offer access with elegance?
- What does "design for all" or "inclusive design" mean?
- With whom can you work to reach diversity? When to include stakeholders in the exhibition development process?
- How to publicise accessible services? How to manage commitment to accessibility within the organisation?
- What are the costs of adaptating existing exhibits and of planning accessibility right from the start?
- How can we contribute to shape a world that takes into account all the aspects of human diversity?
This two-day workshop will combine theoretical sessions with numerous good practice case studies, simulations and practical exercises at the Copernicus science center in Warsaw.
This workshop is aimed at exhibition developers and designers, facilitators and explainers, directors and managers of museum and science centres, and professionals interested in accessibility projects.
Below is the schedule of this "ecsiting" two days before ECSITE
conference.
You can register on line at:
http://www.ecsite.eu/annual_conference/register?destination=node/add/conference-registration
Workshop registration cost is € 100 - By May 13
Programm
Tuesday, 24 May 2011
9:00-11:00
Welcome and Introduction
- Welcome to the group, description of the two days session
- Summary of participants´ experiences according to the results coming from a survey sent in May.
Guest speaker: Marcus Weisen, director of Jodi MattesTrust for accessible digital culture.
- Meeting the creative challenge of accessibility.
- Socio-political overviews and European policies for accessibility and culture
Practical exercise: Touch and grasp at the Copernicus science center
11:00-11:30
Coffee break
11:00 - 13:00
Practical exercises to become aware of specific needs of visitors.
Groups of 5 to 7 persons visiting different exhibition rooms of the Copernicus science center with wheel chairs, eyes masks, visual impairment simulation glasses, ear plugs, etc to understand that nothing, even the imagination will ever replace one´s own experience.
13:00-14:00
Lunch
14:00-16:00
Non verbal communication - short practical initiation
- Eric Lawrin, in charge of accessibility for deaf and hearing impaired visitors, Universcience, France
Access solutions
Solutions for readability and visibility
- Nadine Dutier, visual impairment expert and occupational
therapist , Association pour les personnes aveugles et malvoyantes (APAM and FAF-ACCESS), Paris, France
Exhibition cases studies from the experience and point of views of visually impaired persons.
16:00-16:30
Coffee break
16:30-18:00
Solutions for deaf and hearing impaired people
- Eric Lawrin, in charge of deaf and hearing impaired visitors
Making provisions with tools such as text level, subtitles, speech organisation, sign language levels.
Solutions through architectural and exhibition design which allow physical access to exhibits (guidelines, etc.)
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
9:00-11:00
Design for all
How to pay attention to all the senses (cases studies, tricks, ...)
Ergonomy
Practical exercise: observations or remediation
Groups of 5 to 7 persons visit different exhibition rooms of the Kopernicus
science center for observation or remediation on preselected Kopernicus exhibits
11:00-11:30
Coffee break
11:00 - 13:00
Practical exercise: design of a prototype paying attention to all
(beginning)
Group of 5 persons with documentation and foam cardboard, material, pen, scissors, glue etc. to create or imagine prototypes to explore a scientific question.
13:00-14:00
Lunch
14:00-16:00
Practical exercise: design of a prototype paying attention to all
(second part)
16:00-16:30
Coffee break
16:30-17:30
Presentation of results and prototypes
Summary, conclusions
More information:
Nathalie Puzenat, Exhibit developer
Universcience-Palais de la découverte, Paris, France
nathalie.puzenat(a)universcience.fr
tel: 33 10 40 74 80 11
with:
Hoelle Corvest Morel, in charge of accessibility for visually impaired persons, Universcience-Cité des sciences, Paris, France and
Fatima Alves, Access Manager, Pavilhão do Conhecimento - Ciência Viva, Lisbon, Portugal