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“Culture for All Bragança” was a large-scale ambitious project designed by the Municipality of Bragança (with funding from the European Social Fund) that was conducted by the IPB. A team of professors-reseachers, junior researchers and collaborators with impairments was in charge of creating a considerable number of accessible resources that were to serve as mediation for anyone visiting 5 of the city’s cultural venues – Graça Morais’s Contemporary Art Centre, Georges Dussaud’s Photography Centre, National Railway Museum of Bragança, Iberian Museum of the Mask and Costume and the City Theatre. The resources encompassed visits for the various exhibitions and information texts for the 5 buildings mentioned above that were made available with audiodescription, in Portuguese Sign Language and in easy language, as can be ascertained on the project’s Youtube channel @culturaparatodosbraganca2121.
In previous work developed, particularly at the Graça Morais’s Contemporary Art Centre (cf. Martins & Freitas, 2019) [1], we conducted traditional access provision, an ad-hoc, a posteriori approach, since it can be defined as exclusive, neutral, non-author and 3rd party (Fryer & Cavalo, 2021) [2] or, as Greco (2018) [3] puts it, as “particularist”, focused on the maker who is usually a person without impairment and thus only triggers users’ reaction. However, the “accessibility revolution” upheld by this author [3] implies that accessibility should be universalist (i.e. for all), user-centred and proactive. Informed by this paradigm change, in this project we sought to embrace a participatory approach with people with impairments: one that would involve them from the outset of the process of design and creation rather than at the end, and would enable them to have a voice and a say at all stages of this process.
We thus aim, in this paper, to present two resources designed by and for people with intellectual/ cognitive and with visual impairments, which offer information in easy language and audiodescription, respectively. We will detail the process from the moment we visited the exhibition with our collaborators and consultants to the moment when the text was recorded in studio and later made available in the Youtube channel.
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People with impairments Visual impairment Intellectual/ cognitive impairment Accessibility revolution Cocreation Participatory approach
Citation
Castro, José Luís; Martins, Cláudia; Martins, Sandra (2024). From creation to cocreation: culture for all Bragança. In International Conference on Co-Creation Processes in Higher Education. Bragança: Instituto Politécnico
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Instituto Politécnico de Bragança