Innovation Showcase
InquiRing: Create Your Own Museum Experience
Innovation Showcase Pat Villeneuve
The InquiRing is an inclusive, hand-held gallery tool with a menu of options that visitors may use to create their own museum experiences. As the name implies, it is based in inquiry with a constructivist orientation that encourages visitors to generate personally relevant meanings in the museum (Villeneuve & Love, 2007). The presentation will address inquiry, share a range of questions for visitors, and discuss multiple uses of the affordable, low-tech tool.
Detective Art Program : Inclusive Reality in the Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias
Innovation Showcase Rosa de los Ángeles Fernández Lagar
The Museum of Arts of Asturias offers the social and cultural framework for the artistic program: Art Detectives, created by Rosa Ángeles Fernández Lagar (Gey Lagar). This program consists of guided visits to the Museum for children with autism accompanied by other children and their families. After the visit a creative proposal is made in the workshop of the Museum to capture creativity or activate it in an activity related to the theme of the session. All this is done with a clear structure, information through visual supports, visual materials for investigators to investigate. Be part of this professional experience with the person who imparts it as a generator of inclusive programs in natural contexts: Rosa Ángeles Fernández Lagar, graduate in Art History from the University of Oviedo and a specialist in Autism Spectrum Disorder at the University of Alcalá de Henares, as she develops her professional life in direct intervention and workshops with people with autism, as well as promoting activities, workshops, and inclusive programs. During the development of Art Detectives, inclusive synergies have been generated among the museum staff, among the coinciding visitors in time and rooms with the children and among the participants of the program. The access to the museum space has been enhanced to families who did not know the possibility of living a visual and creative experience with maximum understanding and respect. And it has encouraged that families to continue visiting other museums.
