The Education plan

It is an introductory level course that, in 5 hours, promotes a complex, critical, project-based, and participatory vision of accessibility.
Through dialogue between experts and discussion of case studies, the course reviews the historical evolution of the principles and practices of accessibility in cultural contexts, analyzes barriers – visible and invisible – affecting both the work of cultural institutions and the experience of audiences, explores cultural, linguistic, and cognitive biases impacting inclusion dynamics, and finally outlines the legal framework of accessibility within the broader concept of the "right to culture."

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Designed to build new awareness among those who design, the education course – divided into 3 independent courses – helps to rethink accessible design beyond mere regulatory compliance, in a humanistic, holistic, and relational perspective that places the “person at the center”: from design for all to city by all, for a total of 30 hours.
Each course grants 10 continuing education credits (CFC) and, for those enrolled in the Board of Architects, 10 professional training credits (CFP).

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The course is primarily aimed at front-of-house and reception staff who have the crucial responsibility of welcoming, informing, assisting, guiding, narrating, and interpreting the hospitality of a cultural venue.

Principles, tools, and techniques for the cultural mediation, narration, and communication of the cultural heritage for every audience: styles, services, supports, resources, to engage with an accessible, plural, inclusive perspective.

• Accessibility mission targets the training of 250 chiefs of cultural heritage institutions and leverages the idea of accessibility as the mission itself of the cultural site.

• Construction sites offers to diversified groups of operators, identified on a territorial basis, the opportunity of a straight confrontation with cultural organizations engaged in systemic operations of rethinking their own accessibility.

• Widespread training of Accessibility track, thanks to the collaboration of local cultural organizations, responds to the specific training needs of the territories in their context and their current situation.

• Beyond barriers is the workshop where the staff of a museum, an archive, a library, an archaeological park work to identify an approach and a study methodology of visible and invisible barriers shareable at a national level.

Accessibility without borders offers a group of 40 professionals, selected through a public announcement, the opportunity of connecting with the strategies, methods, and tools implemented by institutions from two European countries: Portugal and Finland.
Finland, with its advanced social policies, is a model for the universal design of cultural heritage institutions and for the integration of diverse audiences; Portugal stands out for its ability to combine tradition and innovation in accessibility processes.