As responsible for the department of museography and production for the museum Laboratorio Arte Alameda (Mexico City), I have been developing several strategies to adapt the space, in order to transform this public space into a more friendly place for all.

I turned this work into an investigation of the three major challenges I face in everyday life: historical heritage, sustainability and inclusion.

Laboratorio Arte Alameda | LAA is a museum belonging to the INBA National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature, organ of the Mexican Federal Government. LAA is positioned as a space dedicated to research, exhibit and documentation of practices based on the crossroads of knowledge – especially between art, science and technology – and the exhibitions are the way to problematize the knowledge flows and its outputs: the documentation centre (CDPL), educational programs and museography, the means to share such knowledge. LAA is a building founded by the monks Dieguinos in 1591, is a historical heritage located in the center of the city.

Part of the program FINBA Sustainable, one of the guidelines of space, and challenges of museography, is to worry about the residues and energy expenses occasioned by each exhibition.

Another guideline is to turn the LAA into a “friendlier” space. The name comes from the committee created in 2017 that thinks and creates strategies to make the space appropriate to receive and be mediator for any type of public. It is important to emphasize here that the vision of inclusion is broad: from our captive audience, art experts, to people with diminished cognition.

Part of my research is to give lectures and share strategies.

I share the slides of these presentations, which are Creative Commons certified, to be shared, modified and scattered as necessary seed for the world.

Lecture

Museography and Accessibility (2016-)
Autor: Paloma Oliveira

Tags: lecture, museography, accessibility

Categorias: lecture