Developing W-ICAD as a means of enhancing equity, diversity and inclusion within museum digital audio interpretation

开发 W-ICAD 作为增强博物馆数字音频解说公平性、多样性和包容性的一种手段

• 批准号: AH/Y005996/1
• 负责人: Alison Eardley
• 金额: $ 15.62万
• 依托单位: University of Westminster
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FY005996%2F1
• 关键词: Developing; ICAD; means; enhancing; equity

Central to the purpose of a museum is communicating with their audiences about their collections. Within the AHRC-NEH funded project (AH/W005549/1) we developed the Workshop for Inclusive Co-created Audio Description (W-ICAD). W-ICAD provides museums with a new tool for supporting communication with audiences. It does this by redefining the way that museums think about and produce digitally available recorded audio description (AD). AD is often described as a verbal description for information available through vision. It is a key tool for blind and partially blind audiences who would like to experience museum collections. In both the UK and US, museums are legally obliged to ensure equitable access to their collections. However, museums need to dramatically increase AD provision both within museums and online. Building on opportunities afforded by the digital revolution, W-ICAD provides museums with a new, equitable and inclusive way to co-create AD. It provides both a theoretical rationale and a practical process that will transform museum digital audio interpretation for use within the museum (often via a mobile phone) or online. W-ICAD transforms thinking by drawing on evidence from psychology and neuroscience to refute three key implicit biases that underpin current museum AD practice: (1) 'experience' through sight is objective; (2) AD is only beneficial to blind or partially blind people; and (3) full sight provides people with a privileged experience of visual arts, and therefore sighted people must do the describing for blind and partially blind listeners. W-ICAD transforms practice by providing museums with a model for producing AD that redefines how museum AD is created, who it is for, and who does the describing: subjectivity and the lived experience of the describers is embraced; descriptions are created equally for blind, partially blind and sighted audiences; description is led by partially blind co-creators, in collaboration with blind and sighted co-creators. Through W-ICAD, we have transformed the ways in which museum collections can be experienced by audiences (in museums and online).This follow-on impact and engagement funding will enable us to embed W-ICAD into museum practice, whilst extending its reach within the museum and heritage sector. We will work with 8 flagship W-ICAD museums, across the UK and US, to make inclusive co-created audio description a standard part of their communication with audiences. The partners include: globally-leading national organisations (National Science and Media Museum, UK; Imperial War Museum Duxford, UK; National Museums Liverpool, UK; Natural History Museum, UK; Smithsonian Institution, US); Medium - large size museums (Eiteljorg Museum, US & Wexner Center for the Arts, US) and Small organisations (Heurich House, US). With these sector partners, we will expand W-ICAD to incorporate: - description of different environments (including exterior), different artworks (including abstract) and museum objects- co-created audio description for multisensory experience including describing tactile exploration - different lived experiences (e.g.intersectionality, diverse cultural backgrounds) within museum interpretation- guidance for W-ICAD to support co-creators to ethically and sensitively describe diversityTo maximise the reach of W-ICAD, and to ensure its legacy, we will work with our flagship museums to create an open access online W-ICAD training course for museum professionals, AD practitioners and stakeholders. This will enable other museums across the world to implement W-ICAD within their interpretation strategy for digital AD (available within the museum or online). The promotion and implementation of this model within museum practice will strengthen awareness of the ableist biases within current practice and enhance equity, diversity and inclusion within the museum sector and beyond.

博物馆的核心目的是与观众交流他们的藏品。在 AHRC-NEH 资助的项目 (AH/W005549/1) 中，我们开发了包容性共同创作音频描述研讨会 (W-ICAD)。 W-ICAD 为博物馆提供了支持与观众沟通的新工具。它通过重新定义博物馆思考和制作数字化录制音频描述 (AD) 的方式来实现这一目标。 AD 通常被描述为对通过视觉获得的信息的口头描述。对于想要体验博物馆藏品的盲人和半盲观众来说，它是一个关键工具。在英国和美国，博物馆有法律义务确保公平地获取其藏品。然而，博物馆需要大幅增加博物馆内和网上的广告提供。借助数字革命带来的机遇，W-ICAD 为博物馆提供了一种新的、公平且包容的方式来共同创造 AD。它提供了理论依据和实践过程，将博物馆数字音频解说转变为在博物馆内（通常通过移动电话）或在线使用。 W-ICAD 通过利用心理学和神经科学的证据来驳斥支撑当前博物馆 AD 实践的三个关键隐含偏见，从而转变思维：(1) 通过视觉的“体验”是客观的； (2) AD仅对盲人或半盲人有益； (3)完全视力为人们提供了视觉艺术的特殊体验，因此视力正常的人必须为盲人和半盲听众进行描述。 W-ICAD 通过为博物馆提供制作 AD 的模型来改变实践，该模型重新定义了博物馆 AD 的创建方式、为谁提供以及由谁进行描述：拥抱主观性和描述者的生活经验；为盲人、部分盲人和视力正常的观众平等地创作描述；描述由部分失明的共同创作者主导，并与失明和视力正常的共同创作者合作。通过 W-ICAD，我们改变了观众体验博物馆藏品的方式（在博物馆和在线）。这种后续影响和参与资金将使我们能够将 W-ICAD 嵌入博物馆实践，同时扩大其影响范围在博物馆和遗产部门内。我们将与英国和美国的 8 家旗舰 W-ICAD 博物馆合作，使包容性的共同创作音频描述成为他们与观众沟通的标准部分。合作伙伴包括：全球领先的国家组织（英国国家科学与媒体博物馆；英国达克斯福德帝国战争博物馆；英国利物浦国家博物馆；英国自然历史博物馆；美国史密森学会）；中型至大型博物馆（美国艾特尔乔格博物馆和美国韦克斯纳艺术中心）和小型组织（美国赫里希故居）。与这些部门合作伙伴一起，我们将扩展 W-ICAD 以纳入： - 不同环境（包括外部）、不同艺术品（包括抽象）和博物馆物品的描述 - 共同创建多感官体验的音频描述，包括描述触觉探索 - 不同的生活体验博物馆解释中的（例如交叉性、多元文化背景）——W-ICAD 的指导，以支持共同创作者以道德和敏感的方式描述多样性为了最大限度地扩大 W-ICAD 的影响力，并确保其遗产，我们将与我们的旗舰博物馆为博物馆专业人士、AD 从业者和利益相关者创建开放式在线 W-ICAD 培训课程。这将使世界各地的其他博物馆能够在其数字 AD 解释策略中实施 W-ICAD（可在博物馆内或在线获取）。在博物馆实践中推广和实施这一模式将加强对当前实践中体能歧视偏见的认识，并增强博物馆部门内外的公平、多样性和包容性。