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Seminar: access all areas
Sensory Objects presented their research and their Sensory Labels for the British Museum at a seminar called Access All Areas organised by the Visitor Users Group
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Sensory objects at the British Museum
The Sensory Objects project creates multisensory interactive artworks that respond to museum collections and generate alternative ideas for museum interpretation
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Seminar: sensory objects
Seminar exploring the Sensory Objects Project at the British Museum for 65 delegates
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PurpleSTARS present to the Disability History Conference London Metropolitan Archive
Members of PurpleSTARS presented their experiences of exploring their history, both as people with learning disabilities and as people of African and Caribbean Heritage. The presentation included details of their work with the Lord Rix archive and as well as their contributions to audience engagement and preparations for a pop up installation with Hackney Museum's Roots, Records and Rhythms exhibition on the Borough's history of African and Caribbean Music.PurpleSTARS Inclusive History and Culture through Digital Media
The purpleSTARS team will led conference delegates in creating personal and reflective material in accessible digital and multimedia formats to demonstrate the inclusive ways of working with history and culture that the purpleSTARS have been pioneering
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PurpleSTARS present at Preparing for Adulthood
PurpleSTARS co-presented on Friday 4th May at the 'Preparing for Adulthood’ event an Erasmus+ Project with Professionals from Lithuania, Sweden and the UK that aims to work together to shape new and innovative learning opportunities for young people with learning disabilities, which will address barriers to accessing employment and community. PurpleSTARS demoed Virtual Reality interactive work for MERL and Judith Appiah’s Building Better Opportunities work placement
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#Purplelightup international persons with a disability day British Museum
purpleSTARS were invited to be part of the British Museum Wolfson Advisory group 2017-18 they contributed to a participatory event for #purpleLightUp International Persons with a Disability Day British Museum and were invited to showcase their award wining sensory labels from 2015 in created in response to objects from the Enlightenment Gallery
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Pride of place
PurpleSTARS developed a Pop Up event with Raw Material in response to the Roots, Rhythms and Records Exhibition at Hackney Museum. With music studio Raw Material purpleSTARS created spoken word rap poetry which they performed at the two Pride of Place events. An easy to use wiki web page researching the exhibition and a set of sensory objects in a suitcase was also created related to with their personal responses to the Roots, Rhythms and Records exhibition. The Suitcase with sensory materials will be used for Schools workshops co- facilitated by the purpleSTARS
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purpleSTARS – inclusive curation and production creates inclusive museums
purpleSTARS Essay for Access Smithsonian, the Institute for Human Centered Design (IHCD), and MuseWeb (formerly Museums and the Web) groundbreaking online publication of collected essays about inclusive digital exhibition interactives.
Includes work by developers of inclusive museum exhibits/interactives; designers of inclusive museum technology; and user/experts with a wide range of abilities and disabilities who are inclusive technology designers and/or are museum visitors who use interactives. This document is not a definitive how-to document; instead, it is a demonstration of the current state of the art of inclusive interactives design, posing questions and problems for further research, experimentation, and evaluation
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The MERL's making SENse
Celebration and launch of purpleSTARS virtual reality (VR) interactive experiences. Modern Shepherd Quad Bike experience and English Forest four seasons experience. Interactive sensor sheep and horse & cart sounds. The interactive exhibits were commissioned from purpleSTARS by the MERL and funded by the Earley Charity
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Sensory Objects Enterprise - Co-Development and Start Up project AHRC Follow on Fund Project pupleSTARS
purpleSTARS developed from the award-winning Sensory Objects (2012 – 2015)
The project aimed to improve the accessibility of our cultural heritage for those with learning disabilities, helping them interpret museums, galleries and archives by combining art, technology and opportunities to explore using all our senses.
Sensory Objects was led by artists and technologists fromthe University of Reading with co investigators from RIX Research and Media at the University of East London. Collaborating with co-researchers from; Liverpool Mencap Access to Heritage forum (A2H); Reading College Learners with Learning Difficulties and Disabilities Department; and the Tower Project London. The Sensory Object research project worked with museums and heritage sites including, Speke Hall (Liverpool), The Museum of English Rural Life (Reading) and The British Museum (London). The research project underscored the need for accessible heritage interpretation developed with and by those with disabilities, and, the benefits of their wider involvement in the sector. The follow on funded Sensory Objects Enterprise - Co Development and Start Up project, purpleSTARS was founded to fulfil this need and build on the successful practice developed by researchers during the Sensory Objects project. purpleSTARS brings together artists and technologists with and without learning difficulties/disabilities totransform museum experiences and make them really inclusive. The enterprise aims to:
• Create sustainable employment opportunities for people with learning disabilities
as artists and technologists to help make museums engaging and inclusive.
• Enable museums to bring a richer sensory perspective to their collections and use
digital tools to widen the appeal and inclusivity of what is on offer.
• Support people with learning disabilities to communicate their insights and
expertise so as to augment sensory museum experiences.
• Work with museum teams to rethink the design and curation of their collections
with people with learning disabilities to widen their appeal to everyone