Week Twelve: Access

WEEK TWELVE: ACCESS

1) Talk by Brian Heffernan, public speaker and advocate

Brian's website: http://brianspeaks2u.com/

2) Read Carmen Papalia, “A New Model for Access in the Museum”

http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/3757/3280

3) See links below to the guidelines offered by two high-profile, mainstream arts & exhibition spaces. Just browse these guidelines, checking out what interests you. Smaller arts organizations are often at the cutting edge of access, but the big organizations are generally the ones that produce guidelines.    

The Kennedy Center: Sensory Friendly Programming: A Guide for Performing Arts Settings (17 pages)

https://www.kennedy-center.org/accessibility/education/lead/SensoryGuidebook.pdf

Smithsonian Guidelines for Accessible Exhibition Design (110 pages with Table of Contents, so you can read selectively)

http://accessible.si.edu/pdf/Smithsonian%20Guidelines%20for%20accessible%20design.pdf

And for future reference for those of you interested in exhibitions:

Richard Sandell, Jocelyn Dodd and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, editors, Re-Presenting Disability: Activism and Agency in the Museum (full-length book)

4) On Serendip, please post a reflection on A Fierce Kind of Love, on Rachel Simon's talk, and/or on accessibility (building on ideas that interest you in the reading or websites, thinking about access or lack thereof in the bi-co, at CCW, or elsewhere, or reflecting on anything at all you want to explore in relation to access).  

5) In your lab notebooks next week, list/describe 7 access features you've noticed at CCW, ranging from specific art tools or techniques to different ways of imagining communication, community, temporality, productivity, and so forth.