The report compiles the results of the MIXmuseum Study, consisting of five years of research derived from collaborations with our museum partners to understand the inclusive design challenges they face. The report presents these findings alongside documentation of the January symposium, including responses from panelists and workshop attendees, as well as an overview of the participatory design process that guided our approach.
Read the full interview HERE. Our contribution to the exhibition brings the design for a reimagined ground-floor restroom area at the Cooper Hewitt Museum to a new, international audience. Click HERE for more details. The exhibition catalog is available for purchase HERE. On display through a travelling exhibition on display at the Overgaden in Copenhagen through August.
Held in January, the event brought together museum staff, architects, artists and activists to discuss how we can design museum spaces that consider the spatial consequences of accessibility beyond code compliance to better meet the needs of their diverse visitors, regardless of ability, age, race, or gender.
In a multidisciplinary symposium sponsored by the Architectural League of New York , designers and museum professionals consider museum spaces that embrace the needs of all visitors. Over the past decade, art museums have demonstrated their commitment to DEAI Diversity, Equity, Access, and Inclusion by diversifying their staff and boards and mounting exhibitions featuring the work of underrepresented artists.
However, museums are just beginning to consider the spatial consequences of accessibility beyond code compliance. Click Here to Register. In the piece, titled Look, Linger, and Touch Something , Sanders and Fuss discuss the ways in which their thinking about embodied museum spectatorship has evolved over the past decade, as well as the work MIXmuseum has accomplished to address the issues raised by their seminal text.
