People with disabilities still experience far-reaching exclusions in the cultural sector. Depending on the perspective of their disability, they have only limited and completely different access to cultural offerings, both qualitatively and quantitatively. In order to achieve a sustainable, system-changing opening, it is urgently necessary to develop cultural offerings that take into account specific needs in their accessibility and to publish them in a bundled and easy-to-find manner. Information on accessible cultural events should be available at a glance to both those working in the cultural sector and those interested in it. As a tool for this, a digital, barrier-free platform for culture should be created on which accessible cultural offerings for people with disabilities can be found centrally and in a structured manner.
Together with the inclusion experts from Un-Label, we are developing prototypes for partial aspects of this future platform. In doing so, we work in participation with people with different disability perspectives and cooperate with students of the study program Code & Context.
The results of the collaboration will ideally be incorporated into the development of a nationwide digital, accessible cultural platform.
This project takes place in the Code & Context spaces in Köln Mülheim!