Sensory Objects Enterprise - Co-Development and Start Up project

我们的目标是提高屡获殊荣的AHRC资助的“感官对象”项目的价值和效益。通过开发感官互动物品，这丰富了博物馆和遗产地内有学习障碍的人的体验。由于感官物品项目，我们有机会与包容性就业机构（就业企业和培训JET）合作，共同-为有学习障碍的人提供就业机会，作为培训和感官对话服务的一部分，帮助博物馆和遗产地实现为有学习障碍的游客提供更容易获得、更有意义的体验。我们的目标是为有学习障碍的人在博物馆和遗产中创造长期可持续的就业机会，并通过融入在感官物体项目期间开发的理解和工作方法来帮助该行业实现更广泛的社会和文化包容性。我们的包容性团队将使用创造性的感官方法和多媒体与博物馆专业人士合作。我们从感官对象项目中获得的经验是，有学习障碍的人告诉我们，他们感到受到尊重，能够与博物馆专业人士交流他们的想法，例如，英国乡村生活博物馆馆长Kate Arnold-Forster在感官对象研讨会MERL 25.02.15期间告诉我们，由于感官对象方法，他们面临着重新思考感官参与方法的挑战。我们将创建一个社会企业感官对象企业（SOE），将提供一套创新的服务，可以提供给博物馆和遗产地。SOE将提供与博物馆专业人士对话的替代方法，为博物馆藏品创造替代感官解释，并鼓励人们更多地认识到有学习障碍的人为博物馆和遗产部门做出的宝贵贡献。我们将建立一个可行的和自我维持的业务工具来提供这项服务，并将其细化为三个不同的产品：1。直接向博物馆工作人员提供互动研讨会，和/或与工作人员共同向当地学习障碍社区提供。2.提供感官焦点小组，以参与性和创造性的方式让残疾人参与，与博物馆工作人员和承包商一起有意义地审查藏品和策展方法。提供感官对话服务，以协助设计和开发互动展览的沟通。这个产品链模型将通过团队与专业博物馆互动制作公司的合作进行排练。这些产品将与代表性的文化组织，伦敦破烂学校，然后，这些资料将作为一个可行的商业方案的核心进行宣传，这将是后续行动的核心成果-在融资阶段。这将为博物馆和文物部门提供服务，我们可以放心地推向市场。

We aim to enhance the value and benefits of the award-winning AHRC-funded 'Sensory Objects' project. This enriched the experience of people with learning disabilities within museums and heritage sites through the development of sensory interactive objects.Resulting from the Sensory Objects project we have the opportunity to work in partnership with the inclusive employment agency Jobs Enterprise and Training JET), to co-develop employment for people with learning disabilities as part of a training and sensory dialogue service that can help museums and heritage sites to realise more accessible and meaningful experiences for their visitors with learning disabilities.We aim to create long-term sustainable employment for people with learning disabilities in museums and heritage and to help that sector achieve wider social and cultural inclusion by incorporating the understanding and working methods developed during the Sensory Objects Project. Our inclusive teams will use creative sensory approaches and multimedia to work with museum professionals. Our experience from the Sensory Object Project was that people with learning disabilities told us they felt respected and were able to communicate their ideas and museum professionals e.g. Kate Arnold-Forster Director of the Museum of English Rural Life during the Sensory Objects Seminar MERL 25.02.15 told us they were challenged to rethink their approaches to sensory engagement because of the Sensory Objects approach. We will create a social business Sensory Objects Enterprise (SOE) that will provide an innovative set of services that can be provided to Museums and Heritage sites. The SOE will offer alternative approaches for dialogue with museum professionals, create alternative sensory interpretation of museum collections and encouraged greater awareness of the valuable contribution people with learning disabilities bring to the museum and heritage sector. We will establish a viable and self-sustaining business vehicle to deliver this service and refine these into three distinct product offers: 1. Provision of Interactive Workshops direct to museum staff and/or co-delivered with staff to the local learning disability community. 2. Provision of Sensory Focus Groups that work in participatory and creative ways to engage disabled people to meaningfully review collections and curatorial approaches with museum staff and contractors.3. Provision of Sensory Dialogues services to assist communication in the design and development of interactive exhibits. This model of product strand will be rehearsed through engagement of the team in partnership with a professional museum interactive production company These will be co-produced and trialled in three pilot implementations with representative cultural organisations, The Ragged School London, MERL and The British Museum.These will then be disseminated as publicity at the heart of a viable commercial package that will be the core outcome of the Follow-on Funding phase. This will constitute a service offer for the museum and heritage sector that we can take to market with confidence.