Accessibility at SAAM

Sensory Map for Musical Thinking New Video Art and Sonic Strategies at Smithsonian American Art Museum

The images below reflect access work I developed in Musical Thinking. The first set is the sensory map, a device to help people with ASD and a range of disabilities have a warning of sensory experiences in the gallery before they enter a space. I designed the sensory map and worked collaboratively with the curatorial team and an access coordinator to ensure it met access standards. The second set is a rail bumper system I developed using furniture bumpers. These bumpers went around artworks, QR codes, and text blocks to cue for low vision or blind folk that there is information ahead. The last set are process images of me collaboratively building a dance floor with haptics and lights inside the blocks. Haptics is a way for hard of hearing and D/deaf folk to feel vibrations coming from sound.