Special Session
Non-ocularcentric expansive museographies: Accessible museographic narratives for visual impairment disability
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Juan Carlos Montes Rodríguez
A strategic proposal for the evaluation and diagnosis of accessibility is presented, and the processes for structuring and systematizing, empirically tested narrative elements, that intervene in the conceptualization and generation of scripts, both curatorial and museographic, that consider the blind form of sensoperception for the development of exhibitions with accessible narratives for the blind that allow visits free of assistance, autonomous and of free choice as fundamental parts for a sensitive experience of visit as a right to leisure for people.
Museum, art and education by competences: Experiences from challenge-based learning View Digital Media
Innovation Showcase Victorino Morales Davila
The change, direction and way in which education must be built from this second half of the 21st century is a consequence of the revolution in digital technologies. New skills are required to be able to break with traditional logical-deductive thinking. Along with them, spaces such as museums are reconsidered and redefined like these that, from artistic practices and new technologies, break with the linearity and rigidity of the scientific method. From the experience of the MUI (Interactive Urban Museum) in Puebla, a case of educational innovation with new museology is analyzed, developing experiential and challenging learning situations for university students who participate in exhibition projects and visual and museographic strategies of social impact. From the exhibitions produced in the last two years, it is possible to observe and identify a positive change in the domain of skills derived from artistic, museographic and visual content creation practice. It is concluded that this change in the level of mastery is related to the commitment (engagement) that students develop with the projects, as a high degree of experimentation is able to develop in the museum.
Mining identity. The reflection of a city through a museum in Guanajuato, Gto. Mexico View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Ana Renata Buchanan Zarate, Ma Eugenia Sanchez Ramos, Laura Elena Zarate Negrete
The museum was developed in the old mining area of the Hacienda de Valenciana in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, where the San José’s General Shaft is located, a construction that dates back to 1791. The space has iconic and unique architectural elements in the historic city, such as the buttresses, the walls of the winches, the smelting chimney and the steam chimney, as well as other spaces that originally served as galleys or courtyards for the ore processing process. The process of fitting out the space to turn it into a museum was a comprehensive project that involved from general cleaning, painting, masonry and waterproofing works to interventions by conservation and lighting experts. It began in March 2016 with the restoration of the two 22- meter-high steam chimneys, adjacent to the San José’s General Shaft, which were built for the operation of the steam winches installed at the beginning of the 19th century. The objective of this research is to rescue the historical legacy and the identity of Guanajuato as a Mining City through a museum that brings the public closer to the history of mining, its processes, architecture and art through its exhibits and accurate information. The research presented is of a qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and explanatory nature. The results obtained from interviews with visitors, where they commented that they understood the mining entity of the city, the historical data and the reason for the founding of the city of Guanajuato.
