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Day 3: SPEAKERS

Research 2B – Inclusivity

Research 2B – Inclusivity

Session Time: 11.30am
Venue: River Room, Level 2

Accesibilidad Emocional en El Museo Para Una Sociedad Más Sostenible

Mdm Rosa María Hervás Avilés
Full Professor, University of Murcia

Los museos son instituciones accesibles e inclusivas al servicio de la sociedad. Fomentan la diversidad y la sostenibilidad (ICOM, 2022). Son puntos de encuentro que posibilitan experiencias satisfactorias en la rutina diaria de personas mayores con un deterioro cognitivo y sus familias.

Uno de los objetivos de esta investigación fue analizar la atención, la interacción grupal y la conexión emocional de los participantes durante la intervención de mediación cultural llevada a cabo en el Museo de Bellas Artes de Murcia (España).

Para el desarrollo de este trabajo ha sido imprescindible utilizar una metodología experimental observacional, basada en el registro audiovisual de todas las sesiones implementadas en un taller con un grupo de 10 personas diagnosticadas de probable demencia tipo Alzheimer, GDS 4, de edades comprendidas entre los 63 y 78 años. Como protocolo y registro de datos observacionales se diseñó el Instrumento para la observación de recuerdos y emociones en personas con Alzheimer (IOREPA) (Delgado, Hervás, Arnardóttir y Castell, 2012).

Asimismo, se utilizó el Facial Action Coding System (FACS) (Ekman, Friesen & Hager, 2022), un sistema de codificación de la actividad facial para la observación de la expresión no verbal de las emociones básicas analizadas.

Los resultados obtenidos muestran que la mediación cultural en el museo a través del arte favorece experiencias significativas para los participantes debido a los altos niveles de atención, interacción y conexión emocional obtenidos. Constatamos que gracias a esta mediación fue posible conectar con la identidad individual de personas con un deterioro progresivo de las funciones cognitivas y cumplir una función terapéutica.

Las estrategias de mediación cultural utilizadas favorecieron el recuerdo, avivaron las emociones, facilitaron la comunicación, la interacción y las relaciones sociales de los participantes. Asimismo, provocaron momentos de bienestar que mejoraron su autoestima y su calidad de vida.

Los resultados obtenidos en esta investigación pueden contribuir al diseño de experiencias museísticas que potencien la accesibilidad del museo para personas con un deterioro cognitivo y la estimulación emocional como verdadera herramienta de envejecimiento activo y de sostenibilidad social.

“Do You Really Want to Hear What I Have to Say?” – Questions, Opinions and Decisions of a Cross-Institutional Youth Advisory Board

Ms Carolina Silva
Researcher, Institute of Social Sciences University of Lisbon

The youth advisory board Listening LAB: Youth, Culture, Participation was co-organised with five cultural institutions in Lisbon, Portugal. These included the Museum of Art, Architecture and
Technology (MAAT), BoCA: Biennal of Contemporary Art, Casa da Cerca: Contemporary Art Centre, LU.CA: Luís de Camões Theatre and the Municipal Galleries. The goal of the youth advisory board was to evaluate their educational and youth programmes and to establish a research network between cultural stakeholders that are based in the same area of the city. Overall, 52 young people, aged 15 to 25, participated in group roundtables to discuss specific issues related to youth arts programmes in museums. These included the role and voice of youth in cultural spaces, collective identities and co-programming with youth, as well as communication and culture, inter-institutional partnerships and professional networks. The impact of the Listening LAB was threefold: 1) Enhancement of cross-institutional youth programming; 2) Youth’s critical awareness of their participation in museums; and 3) Development of participatory and arts-based research methods. This research paper describes the operational processes and participatory methods involved in setting up, managing and mediating the youth advisory board, as well as its outcomes.

Museum as Education Sphere by Collections Connecting with Diverse Ethnic Groups: A Practice of National Taiwan Museum’s Exhibition “A Centenary Dialog: When Transnational Migrations and Museum Collections Cross Paths.”

Ms Emily Hsuwen Yuan
Research Assistant, National Taiwan Museum

Museums are unique educational institutions that provide opportunities for people to engage with diverse cultures and histories. In recent years, museums have increasingly become a centre for promoting mutual understanding of social and cultural diversity. This essay aims to explore how museums can be an education centre for enhancing mutual understanding of social and cultural diversity by using museum collections as actants as the result of the exhibition “A Centenary Dialog: When Transnational Migrations and Museum Collections Cross Paths” in National Taiwan Museum (NTM), Taiwan. NTM has welcomed and made the museum accessible to Southeast Asian migrants since 2014 by initiating the “Museum Tour Docent Project in Southeast Asian Languages.” NTM connects and collaborates with diverse migration communities to provide educational events representing the diversity and multilayers of cultural aspects of the Southeast Asian region in Taiwan society. With the influences of the collaboration with migration communities, National Taiwan Museum started the act to further education and research of Southeast Asian collections within the museum in 2018. NTM collections comprise diverse artefacts representing the cultural and social heritage of different ethnic groups in Nusantara. These collections have the potential to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and understanding between different communities. In this sense, museum collections can serve as actants to enhance mutual understanding between diverse groups of people in contemporary Taiwan. This essay will also explore how NTM be an education platform for promoting and educating people about the cultural diversities in Taiwan and how museum collections can enhance mutual understanding. While NTM collections and transnational migrations are both from Southeast Asia, NTM, at the same time, provides a unique platform for immigrants to engage with the interpretation of collections and elaborate their unique personal stories that bring various perspectives and help Taiwanese society to learn the cultures from the Southeast Asian region. Thus, even though the museum faces challenges, such as lacking museum professionals to interpret Southeast Asian collections, the traditional roles of museums as educators can have a fascinating interchange through the project that collaborates with SEA migrations.

Museum Accompanies You Through Ageing – A Study of Museum-Based Elderly Education Program

Ms Yu Fang, Chen
Student, Taipei National University of Arts

Taiwan is about to enter the era of super-ageing society. What can museums do with the elderly? This article uses a case study of an elderly education programme held at the Museum of World Religions to explore the feelings and experiences of the elderly during a six-week museum-based educational activity. Qualitative research methods were used to collect and analyse data through observation and interviews with participants. The study found that museum education activities have the potential to expand cognition, promote physical and mental vitality, and promote self-integration among the elderly.

The Museum of World Religions “Hall of Life Journey” exhibition is divided into five stages: birth, growth, middle age, old age, and the world after death. It displays ritual objects from various cultures at each stage of life, conveying the idea that people from different cultural backgrounds share similar life experiences. The education programme uses this exhibition resource and art therapy methods to lead the elderly to recall their life experiences from birth and to create and share life experiences under the guidance of the activity leaders.

Most participants expressed gratitude to those who had helped them in the past. During the art creation process, most participants experienced the process of overcoming difficulties, faced challenges with courage, and gained confidence and a sense of achievement from it.

Finally, this article proposes aspects that museums can pay attention to when organising elderly education programmes from the perspective of Erikson’s psychosocial development theory: combining exhibition resources with the temporality of reviewing life experiences and using diverse sensory objects to help the elderly expand cognition, making the museum a venue for integrating experiences and learning for the elderly.

Using the Easy-to-Read of Manual to Practice Citizen Participation Mechanisms for People with Disabilities: A Case Study of the National Palace Museum

Mr Zhou Yu-hong
Graduate Student, Taipei National University of the Arts, Graduate Institute of Museum Studies
Mr Su,Tzu-Lun
Graduate Student, Taipei National University of the Arts, Graduate Institute of Museum Studies

In recent years, with the emergence of cultural equality in Taiwan, museums have begun to pay attention to the cultural participation of disadvantaged groups, lower the threshold and visit restrictions, and care about whether diverse audience groups can get closer to culture, which is regarded as one of the service objects. In 2018, the National Palace Museum cooperated with the Taipei City Yangming Home for the Disabled to launch an easy-to-read guidebook, starting from the permanent exhibition, and empowering people with disabilities to easily obtain information. This study will take this case as the research subject, through literature review, focus groups, to further understand how the easy-to-read handbook implements the CRPD for people with disabilities.

The study found that the easy-to-read of manual is one of the methods for museums to adopt social inclusion. It reinterprets objects so that audiences can easily understand the museum and are willing to visit museum. Based on the audience’s experience, it gives objects new contemporary value and meaning.

In addition, the production process of the easy-to-read of manual is very complicated, and the museum needs continuous consultation and communication with external cooperative communities. Modify to meet their needs, implement citizen participation.

The content of the easy-to-read of manual pays attention to the functionality of objects and the relevance of life, which can easily arouse the resonance of the audience’s life experience, so as to open a friendly dialogue with audiences with disabilities. On the whole, the manual takes care of the diversity of audiences, takes into account the needs of diverse audiences, emphasises citizen participation, and promotes museums to think about more inclusive interpretation and communication.