Accessibility at MOXI 2/19 - Angela

1. How can MOXI better serve people with physical and developmental disabilities?

2. How can we best study and develop ways to engage people with disabilities? 

Simple add-ons could be added to current exhibits in order to make them accessible such as adding different levels of access to the light bright pegs so that people who cannot reach the ground are still able to build on light bright. In addition, when building future exhibits, making sure that the exhibits are build with different bodies in mind making them inclusive for everyone.

I think one of the best ways to study and develop ways to engage people with disabilities at MOXI is for people to interact with the museum and give feedback on their experience. In addition, I think the exercise of going to all of the exhibits and thinking about different disabilities and limitations could be a beneficial exercise in order to develop a better understanding of how people interact with the space and how we can make interactions better through Sparking and modifying the space. However I think this activity would be more beneficial with more training on different disabilities.

When Samantha was talking about adding audio to BiTiRi, I started listening to the track much more closely similar to how Ron was. I was listening to all the different component from when the cars stop, to their change in velocity/when they left the track to when the car hits the end and finishes. 

I think overall having more training on different types of disabilities and what those might look like in a setting similar to MOXI would to beneficial to MOXI staff. In addition, having groups come in and having those interactions first hand could benefit staff on how to better serve people with disabilities.