Innovation Showcases
Museum Making Sense : Co-designing Better Museum Visitor Engagement Experiences with Visually Impaired Individuals
Innovation Showcase Jinyu Han, Paul Gault
This research addresses the need to improve gallery art experiences for visually impaired individuals through digital multisensory design. It solves the challenge of visual accessibility in traditional galleries using a co-design approach with visually impaired users. Aiming to foster inclusive art engagement, the methodology involves go-along interviews, creative workshops, prototype trials, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Expected outcomes include innovative multisensory art experiences and practical design frameworks for galleries. The project promotes inclusivity in art, advancing cultural accessibility and supporting disability rights within gallery spaces.
Latino cARTographies: A Visual Digital Archive & Public Knowledge Tool
Innovation Showcase Pamela Anne Quiroz, Juana Guzman, Marisela Martinez
Latino cARTographies is a portable, fully bilingual, and truly interactive 360-degree digital touchscreen that presents and preserves the Latino art of Houston. A response to the call from local Latino artists and community members, Latino cARTographies was designed to embrace and empower the city’s Latino arts community by bringing the museum to the community and the community to the museum. Combining research in library archives, Internet data, and interviews with artists and community members, Latino cARTographies provides an engaging and educational introduction to the Latino art of Houston. With just a swipe of the finger visitors have access to 300+ Houston Latino artists, eight Latino communities, and 81+ landmarks, accompanied by first-person memorias. With more than 5000 images, video, text, avatars, animation, virtual galleries, and special effects, digital arts activities, and QR codes that drive the visitor directly to the artist or public and private sites, visitors can also meet the artists who introduce their art in vodcasts, and witness the artistic process. Visitors can even participate in the creative process through digital arts activities. The concepts and technologies used in Latino cARTographies can be adapted to any city seeking to preserve and digitize the artistic, cultural and historic contributions and experiences of their communities. This dynamic Artscape represents a permanent yet dynamic platform that addresses the historic inequities of Houston’s underserved Latino populations and provides an alternative to the traditional ways in which people can access art and experience culture.
Clay Cycle - a Material Methodology : A Visual Presentation Exploring a Material-rooted Methodology, the Impact on an Addiction Recovery Journey Engaging in Gallery-based Pedagogy
Innovation Showcase Dena Bagi
This visual presentation reports on how a material-rooted methodology was utilised to construct pedagogic content in a gallery setting. We review the methodology utilised, titled Clay Cycle, and its potential for leading democratic and creative knowledge production in a pedagogic scenario - for those in addiction recovery. Particular attention is given to the methodology's roots in clays epistemic capacity, and how this intersects with the addiction recovery journey. We then present a case study, detailing how my Clay Cycle methodology was used to steer pedagogic creation/curation at The British Ceramics Biennial. An impact report is shared, which details the methodology's ability to instigate the curation of pedagogic content that enabled deep epistemic cognition relating to the addiction recovery journey. In particular, the way that Clay Cycle's reflexive, iterative, and cyclical process of presenting data 'back' to the individuals with lived experience, afforded ‘space’ for metacognition. Images of the clay-based pedagogic sessions (workshops) as featured, as will images of individuals and artists interacting with the messy and relational maps, that from the backbone of the methodology.
