The Project

Funder: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Project Website: https://bodiesintranslation.wordpress.com/

Partners

Re•Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice at the University of Guelph

Tangled Art + Disability.  

Goals

Goal of the Bodies in Translation project:

• Create access to art for non-normatively embodied people and opportunities for the public to engage with such art, in order to:

• expand understanding of non-normative vitality and advance social justice in Ontario.

Goal of the knowledge platform:

• Provide accessible and inclusive teaching/learning tools that will facilitate the sharing of digital information (as described above).

• Spark the curiosity of those who might not otherwise imagine inclusive ways of working.

Goal of the co-design sessions:

• Collaboratively generate design ideas for the knowledge platform in interactive, useful and playful ways, considering:

• what the knowledge platform could be, what potential users want to see in a platform, and how users would want to engage with the platform.

Deliverables

• Knowledge Platform Wireframes
• Design Brief Document:
  • Knowledge Platform User Stories
  • Summary of 4 co-design sessions
  • Developer/designer guide to turn this into the knowledge platform

Working Documents

Co-design session #4

• Planning & Schedule (In progress)

Co-design session #3

• Planning & Schedule
• Notes from the session#3
• User scenarios from the session
• Revised Knowledge Platform Map based on results from session 3

Co-design session #2

• Planning & Schedule
• Notes from the session#2
• Design elements discussed in session#2
• Knowledge Platform Map based on results from session 1 & 2

Co-design Session #1

• Planning
• Schedule
• Notes from the session#1

Resources and Related Projects

• Creative user connector
• Vital Practices in the Arts (work in progress)
• Art in Translation
• BiT Principles of Governance and Engagement
  • BiT Guiding Principles Video (with audio description)
  • BiT Guiding Principles Video (without audio description)
• Artists Database (work in progress)

Communication

Meetings:

• Knowledge platform sitemap review July 15 2:30-3:30pm ET
• Third co-design session May 31 2019 9:30-2:30pm ET
• Planning meeting May 16 2019
• Planning meeting March 14 2019
• Second co-design session Mar 5 2018 10-2:30pm ET
• Planning meeting Feb 28 2018 1pm ET
• Meeting notes Dec 14, 2017
• First co-design session Oct 19 10am - 2:30pm ET
• Planning meeting Oct 16, 2017
• Planning meeting Oct 10 , 2017
• Planning meeting Sept 27, 2017 3:30-4:20pm ET
• Planning meeting Sept 14, 2017

Meeting notes

Communication channel or platform (link): Zoom, Vidyo