Civic University: Seamlessly Sensing at the National Heritage Paralympic Trust

The project uses the Workshop for Inclusive Co-created Audio Description (developed by Thompson with Eardley (U of Westminster) to create Multi-Sensory Description of 12 3D Paralympic and disability related museum objects that can be accessed through 3 virtual galleries:
1. Celebrating Disability across Buckinghamshire Museums,
2. the History of British Blind Sport;
3. Dr Guttmann Founder of the Paralympic Movement.
The project was co-created by National Paralympic Heritage Trust, Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire (CEO Vicky Hope-Walker) and Hannah Thomspon, Royal Holloway University of London and funded by Royal Holloway's Civic University / Social Innovation Research Hub. It also involves 6 Buckinghamshire
museums (Buckingham Old Gaol; the Roahl Dahl Museum and Story Centre, Great Missenden; Amersham Museum; Chesham Museum; Milton Keynes Gallery, and Milton’s Cottage, Chalfont St-Giles) as well as community partners Bucks Vision and Blind British Sport and WICAD Project Research Fellow Lindsay Bywood (University of Westminster). The project used co-creation workshops with blind, non-blind, disabled and non-disabled visitors, museum professionals and heritage volunteers to create multi-sensory audio descriptions of 12 objects in the NPHT Global Virtual Museum.. It also provided training for a range of museum professionals and volunteers across Buckinghamshire, providing them
with the expertise and knowledge to embed the creation of inclusive audio description in their work.