Graduate Technical Methods Seminar in Inclusive Design, using the museum as a site of opportunity to explore innovative methods of inclusive design that broaden notions of inclusivity to issues of race, class, gender, and other embodied differences. Since the 1960’s, artists have called into question the Western notion that art is a visual, disembodied experience that should cater to a normative, able-bodied spectator. The site of the exhibition has, however, often lagged in response to this goal. The course asks: How do we spectate? How do we, as the viewers, set up a relationship between ourselves and what we are viewing within the space provided for us? How does the space of the exhibition either support or subvert these existing relationships? How does the space of the exhibition facilitate our relationship between ourselves and those that are the same as us, and those that are different?
Work by Katy Ashkar, James Dam, Diana Genao, Paul Owusu, Robert Whipple
