제작처한국장애인문화예술원
등록일 2025-01-02
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good morning my name is bety Seagle and I'm the director of the Kenny Center office of accessibility and VSA this is one of my favorite topics accessibility Trends and Innovations and I'm really excited to be joining you to exchange ideas best practices Inspirations and Innovations in Access let me tell you what I'm going to to do today first I'm going to give you a quick introduction to the Kenny Center and the office of accessibility in VSA second I'm going to discuss Trends and innovations that have an impact on accessibility I also want to let you know that all the images you see on the screen today are of people with disabilities participants and alumni and access VSA programs all except for one see if you can find it third and Fin finally I'm going to tell you a story because I think you will like the story to start with let me introduce you to the Kenny Center for the Performing Arts located in Washington DC it is a living Memorial to President Kennedy and a vibrant cultural Hub presenting thousands of performances and worldclass artists annually at the Kennedy Center we believe the Arts celebrate our differences our disabilities our creativity and Innovation we believe the Arts reveal our shared humanity and most importantly we believe that the Arts are for everyone now this belief extends to the office of accessibility in VSA our mission is to create opportunities for people with disabilities of all ages to learn through participate in and engage with the arts and culture our vision is really simple every art form every age everywhere for everyone in the office of accessibility we also strive to ensure that performances programs events and facilities are fully accessible to people with disabilities of all all ages and we do this by removing barriers to participation whether those barriers are programmatic or physical and identifying solutions to the challenges we face every day we continuously seek to improve and enrich our accessibility services in response to the changing and evolving needs and expectations of our community I hope that you will consider joining the access VSA International Network a large community of over a thousand people globally and perhaps consider joining us for the lead annual conference coming up in August of 2025 and if you'd like more information about the office of accessibility please feel free to go to our website I've posted the link here on the slide let's move forward on to the heart of the presentation so what are some of the global Trends and Innovations in accessibility there are a number of significant social trends that are shifting outdated attitudes and perspectives around disability globally there is definitely a move away from approaches where disability is um treated like a charity where access is paternalistic and reluctantly granted and instead we're moving globally to access as a social and civil and human right we are moving away as a society from a medical or impairment approach to disability which assumes that a person with a disability is a deviation from the norm and that the disability resides in the person and that makes them the problem in this model something is wrong with the individual and we seek to change the individual to accommodate Society instead what we're seeing as a trend we're moving towards a social or rights-based approach which acknowledges that difference or diversity is the norm and that it is not the person with the disability that is the problem but that it is society that needs to be fixed in other words there is something wrong with Society all of this and we seek to change society to accommodate the individual this is a dramatic shift and every country and every culture is at a different point in making this transition now another social Trend that we need to consider is how we as individuals a community or a society can more or less disable someone based on their interactions with the physical communication information and social policy environments more or less disable someone H what exactly does that mean I'll use the physical environment as an example my friend Beth who uses a power wheelchair and I love to go to the Kenny center to see plays we always stop at the coffee shop across the street and when we cross the street to go to the Kenny Center the first thing that we see is the grand stairway Architects love Grand stairways so my friend Beth looks at me and I look at her and we both look at the stairway and I turn to her and wave bye-bye and then I run up those steps and I'm in the theater and in my seat where is Beth she's sitting at the bottom of the stairs in that scenario which one of us is more or less disabled Beth is more disabled I had no problem with the stairs I just ran in and got my seat Beth is stuck at the bottom of the stairs because using a power wheelchair she can't go up those steps she is more disabled by that physical environment let's try the scenario again so my friend Beth and I love to go to see plays we stop across the street at the coffee shop and get a cup of coffee and then we cross the street to go to the Kenny Center and the first thing that we see is the grand stairway I look at Beth she looks at me and this time my friend Beth looks a little bit to her left and she sees that there's a sidewalk that bypasses those stairs and takes her directly into the theater so I look at her she looks at me we both look at the stairs and she waves bye-bye and she takes that wheelchair and goes up the sidewalk and is in the theater and in her seat before I am even halfway up the steps now in that scenario which one of us is more or less disabled this time it's me that's more disabled I have to go up the steps and it takes me longer and I struggle sometimes to get up and down steps where is my friend Beth using the sidewalk goes straight into the envir into the theater the physical environment disabled her less when there were stairs and a sidewalk that's how we can fix physical environments that's what it means to more or less disable someone we can also fix the communication environment by providing captioning or sign language interpreters assist of listening devices when we provide these kinds of accommodations and access Services we disable the members of our audiences who are deaf or have hearing loss we disable them less we can fix the information environment by ensuring that our websites are designed and coded to be accessible to things like screen readers so that we disable our blind and low vision Community less and we can also Al address the social and policy environments our laws and regulations are frequently our social policies embodied in those laws and regulations and those can provide protections and disable people less or in my venue my theater I can have internal policies for example to set aside a percentage of seats as wheelchair accessible to always make captions uh available on videos and other media that we produce doing that will disable my audience less these internal policies also like laws can provide protections we make someone more or less disabled simply based on moving a trash can out of the way out of the path of travel we can make someone more or less disabled by remembering ing to face them when we speak to them more or less disabling someone requires each of us individually and collectively to take action and responsibility a really major social Trend seen today is the passage by many countries of disability rights laws and regulations protecting the rights civil human and cultural rights and prohibiting discrimination on the basis of disability some of these laws have been around for quite a long time as the Americans with Disabilities Act passed in 1990 and we can see the results of those prohibitions against discrimination happening right now I encourage you to think about these significant social trends from changing perspectives fixing environment to disable people less and the impact of social policy as expressed by disability and human rights laws as well as your own organization's internal policies to prohibit discrimination as you approach your accessibility work let's move on to some other Trends I just want to introduce a few Innovations and Trends in and emerging accessibility practices that I'm starting to see Pop Up in cultural spaces theaters and museums around the world in theaters and museums we are seeing them use and leverage Universal and human- centered Design Concepts to build experiences in spaces that are inherently more inclusive why because they are designed and expected to embrace difference diff diversity and the VAR needs of our audiences artists and staff I wish I had more time to talk about this particular topic because I could spend hours on it however another Trend that I'm starting to see that is also important is cultural arts workers administrators and managers and Senior leadership starting to build accessibility into everyday experience business practices which focus on access I and inclusive experiences where the content information and interactive social aspects are fully and equally experienced by individuals whether they have apparent or nonapparent Mobility sensory communication and brain-based disabilities you know today there are approximately 1.2 million people with disabilities around the world think about it one out of 20 people have a disability nearly one quarter of the population and this number gets even larger when we look at our aging populations as the demographic shift and the percentage of individuals with disabilities increases we need to embrace plan for and expect differences and disabilities as a normal part of the human condition oh another really exciting and really topical Trend right now is technology technology is having a tremendous impact on the opportunities for inclusion from AI to apps to robots technology often moves us closer to inclusive practices technology can provide new ways of conveying information in a multitude of different modalities and with diversity of ability and mind technology when it is seamlessly integrated can enhance accessibility and participation just be sure to use wiag wcag standards to make sure your web digital and virtual experiences are operable perceivable understandable and robustly accessible one caveat here be careful because technology if not designed and used properly can exclude more people than it includes and sometimes technology just simply cannot take the place of human interventions for Access and if you haven't figured out the image on the right hand side of this slide is was taken when I was lucky to visit Korea last in your National Museum another Trend to consider we are seeing more people centered experiences what I mean by that is we're seeing serences seeing more person- centered individualized customized experiences that meet people where they are not where we want them to be programs like Museum Gallery experiences are being designed for those with Dementia or Alzheimer's relaxed or sensory per friendly performances are being provided in theaters and and all these examples provide different entry points to to the cultural experience and by giving information and offering choices we Empower individuals to choose which experience they will benefit from the most which entry point to experience works for them it's like choosing what kind of seat works best for you as you can see in the slide on the right there are three different seating options a folding stool that the gentleman is sitting in a wheelchair user using a wheelchair and a young woman sitting on a permanently installed bench in the gallery space there are also tremendous and much a tremendous and much needed movement to increase access and inclusion to employment we need to work with with and hire people with disabilities and push for representation on our stages in our galleries but in our offices behind the scenes and in front of the house we need to push for employees as decision makers and in leadership and positions of authority people with disabilities need to be visible and their stories authentically told and finally there is a growing movement to work together to collaborate to take Collective action which leverages limited resources and benefits whole communities we are learning to authentically engage with our disability communities we are learning to Value accessibility that provides both Independence and leverages inter interdependence so what is next the next emerging practice I don't know I do know that accessibility and inclusion is crucial to have in all places where art and culture take place a cultural arts sector that Embraces access and inclusion will not happen overnight it is something that is never done never finished we need to Champion nurture and strive for Access again and again so let me close with a little story this is one I told last year at the World Congress in Busan recognize these folks Star Trek the original you know Star Trek was being broadcast on us television between 1966 and 1969 and it had all kinds of exciting and futuristic Technologies stuff we only dreamed about and never really thought we would ever have as you may recall most episodes of the original Star Trek would start with Kirk and SPX sitting on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise and they would inevitably get a call from Scotty in engineering now I apologize because my Scottish accent is terrible so Scotty would call from engineering and he would say captain captain the war cor is about to explode something was always about to blow up on Star Trek and so Kirk and Spock would leap up and rush to the doors at the back of the bridge and whoos whoosh the doors would open automatically without being touched and they would run through and whoosh whoosh the doors would close again behind them without being touched so now in 1969 the Star Trek producers got a letter from a man an inventor begging to know how they accomplished this miracle this man wrote a letter saying how did you do it how did you create doors that open without being touched I have worked my entire lifetime on this complex engineering challenge and I have not figured it out yet when I turned on my television there it was doors whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh well the start Star Trek producers scratched their heads and they wrote a letter back to the gentleman and they said well we have these two guys Fred and Joe who pull the doors open whoosh whoosh and push the doors closed whoosh whoosh behind the scenes where you cannot see them this is after all television and it is pretend so why do I tell this story well in 1969 when Star Trek was being broadcast shind was landing on the moon automatic self-actuating doors were considered ridiculously futuristic yet today in hotels airports shopping malls grocery stores there they are automatic self-actuating doors they are common everyday technology that was inconceivable 50 years ago the same is true of accessibility what was not possible before becomes possible now what is inconceivable today will be routine and normalized tomorrow so what is next I hope that we all collectively the global cultural Community Embrace inclusive and accessible practices it is these practices which make our organizations relevant and help us Thrive and like in Star Trek we can make possible today what was impossible yesterday for people with disabilities of all abilities we can make a world in which we commit to accessibility and inclusion for all because that is what makes us more human thank you [Music]

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II. 해외 경향 읽기

2강. 접근성의 경향과 혁신 '케네디 아트센터'
접근성의 시작은 어디서부터인가?’

1974년 설립 이래, 미국에서 장애인에 대한 사회적 태도를 변화시키는 데 중요한 역할을 해온 케네디 센터의 VSA(Very Special Arts)를 소개합니다.
시겔은 접근성을 사회적, 시민적 권리로 이해해야 한다고 강조하며, 차별 없는 문화예술 환경을 만들기 위한 국제적 흐름과 혁신적 실천 사례를 소개하고, 문화예술 관계자의 태도에 대해 이야기합니다. 또한, 장애와 차이를 포용하는 디자인의 중요성을 언급하며, 물리적 환경, 기술, 법과 정책이 장애인들에게 미치는 영향을 다양한 예시를 통해 설명합니다.

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