A New Toolkit For Multisensory Museum Learning

Lauren Race is an accessibility designer,
researcher, and educator working in academia and industry. Her
process combines human-centered, multisensory, and co-design
methods to remove barriers to information access. After earning
her master’s from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program
(ITP), she joined the NYU Ability Project—a research space
dedicated to the intersection of disability and technology.
There, she researches the design of accessible educational tools
in formal and informal learning environments. She teaches
Multisensory Design at New York University, a course that seeks
to increase access for those who learn best through sight,
hearing, touch, taste, and smell.


Charlotte Martin (she/her) has over ten years of
experience working in museum education and accessibility. She is
director of access initiatives at the Intrepid Museum, where she
and her team develop specialized programs and resources for
visitors with disabilities and collaborate across the institution
to embed accessibility in programming, training, customer
service, design, infrastructure and hiring. Charlotte has
presented at conferences around the world, and worked and
consulted at a variety of museums. She previously served as
president of the NYC Museum Educators Roundtable. Charlotte has
an M.A.T. in Museum Education and a B.A. in History of Art.


Links:


Intrepidmuseum.org/access


ability.nyu.edu


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