TOURISM IN BRAZILIAN CITIES: ACCESSIBILITY CONDITIONS FOR MUSEUMS DECLARED AS HISTORIC PATRIMONY IN RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL REGINA COHEN, CRISTIANE ROSE

TOURISM IN BRAZILIAN CITIES:ACCESSIBILITY CONDITIONS FOR MUSEUMS DECLARED AS HISTORIC PATRIMONY IN RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL

REGINA COHEN, CRISTIANE ROSE DE S. DUARTE, ALICE BRASILEIRO, NATÁLIA [email protected]

TRANSED INDIA 2012 13TH International Conference on Mobility and Transport for

All

Tourism in Brazilian Cities:Accessibility Conditions for Museums

Declared as Historic Patrimony in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Regina Cohen, [email protected]

Alice Barros de H. Brasileiro, DSc. Cristiane Rose Duarte , DSc.

Natália Rodrigues de Melo, MSc.



The Pro-Access Group

Research supported by Carlos Chagas Aid Research Foundation (FAPERJ)

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro



• Accessibility, Design for All and Inclusive Architecture• The Concept of ATMOSPHERES• Mobility and Routes• SENSES AND SENSATIONS – Touch, Feel, Hear, Access, Way finding, Walk Through

Theoretical Basis



[senses and sensations]Atmospheres

“Atmosphere is the foundation of sensibility, because it associates the one who perceives with the perceived object. An atmosphere is born from the physical surroundings, my corporeity with its ability to feel, move, and become an affectionate

tonality ".

Jean-François Augoyard. La construction des atmospheres quotidienne: l'ordinaire de la culture.



What factors make the atmosphere of a museum more important than others, giving

a particular significance? How, beyond the physical aspects, the

sensations and the perceptions that appear in a museum, some atmospheres make

appear a sense of care and give singular experiences?

Museums - Atmospheres



[care with a museum]What environment makes evident on the level of

emotions.

The capacity of developing care with a place depends on the grade of embracing that these

ATMOSPHERES give for the persons...



Republique Museum - Rio de Janeiro

Access



Access to Art Museums in London placed near the Tames from Trafalgar Square.

Access



Way finding



Informative Panel with big letters,

contrast of colors and information in

braille

Tactile Maquette and

Map

Way finding



Tactile Maquete and Braille

Way finding

Museu Tiflológico - Madrid



Tactile Map

Quais Branly Museum – Paris, France

Way finding



Videos and Explicative Audios Victoria and Albert Museum

London, UK

Way finding



Walk Through

D’Orsay Museum – Paris, France



La Villete – Paris, France

Walk Through

AndWay finding



Museu Tiflológico - Madrid

Walk Through And Way finding



Yad Vashem Museum – Jerusalém, Israel

Walk Through



Victoria and Albert Museum – London, UK

Walk Through


REGINA COHEN, CRISTIANE ROSE DE S. DUARTE, ALICE BRASILEIRO, NATÁLIA [email protected] Museum, Paris, FranceLouvre Museum, Paris, France

Walk Through



See,Feel, HearTouch,

EXPERIENCE



TouchThe hand, this essential tool of the

environmental world perception, becomes the support of multiples tactile

explorations. The participants with a glove create a second instrument that changes for instants the touch and reveal unexpected

sensations. Centre Pompidou



Guided Visits with signal language

Louvre Museum – Paris, France

See, Feel, Touch, Hear



“If very few persons with disability go to the cultural

places, it’ s also because they don’t know if they could be

received”.

How are the Brazilian Museums?



Ricardo Brennand Museum

Recife



Army Museum

Rio de Janeiro



Museum of Modern Art

São Paulo



Pinacoteca de São Paulo

Ramp of Access

Tactile Pavement

Working with IBRAM we did a diagnosis and proposals for

interventions in museums of Rio de Janeiro



Camp Research on Accessibility

to Museums of IBRAM in RJ

Supported by FAPERJ





National Museum of UFRJ

The National Museum Guided Tour





National Museum of Arts

Ramp in the Main AccessRamp in the Interior of the Museum



National History Museum

Exterior Atmosphere with Ramp

Elevator in an Interior Space



Villa-Lobos Museum

Rio de Janeiro



Art Religious Museum of Cabo Frio

External Access coming from the Street Access to the Museum





In order to accomplish the analysis, we followed the routes made by many visitors

with the aid of art-educators or simply someone from the staff that knew how to explain the route. They were sometimes

permitted to touch a piece and being able to do so would surprise and delight our

visitors.

ROUTES



“It’s necessary more imagination and less charity with persons with

disability. We can say without fear: Yes, there is the museum disability,

the imagination disability in museums and these institutions are more

disabled than persons who cannot see, for instance”.

Evgen Bavcar, 2008.



The Museographic Experience

Touching and Accessing...



Phenomenology and Museums: Revitalizing the Dialog

"To speak of perception is to speak of the body.

The body knows, the body understands, and it is in it,

that the meaning of things manifests itself."

"Having all the organic senses is completely different from lacking one. Everyone understands the world based

on their own personal views and experiences,

without which the mechanisms of science would have no meaning."

"Every aspect of the perceived object is an invitation to see beyond."

Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The Phenomenology of Perception. 1984

The sensations – A Report"My experience was amazing. Touching a Monalisa

brought back the memories of the reproductions I had seen when I still had my eyesight.

The interesting part was that no one could determine if the piece was good or not . For me, it

was perfect! I recovered for a second, the visual arts,

something I had lost when I became blind at 21. Yes, they brought back through my hands

what I had already seen and remained in my memory".



“I had the same sensation when touching the sculptures in Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Because touching sculptures is forbidden,

but there not. The emotion of ‘seeing’ again, of being

able to use freely my body and my perceptions to understand the artistic

reality.”

Marco Antonio - MAQ. Blind, Inclusion and Accssibility, 2007.

The sensations – A Report



The sensations – A Report



Museum of Image and SoundRio de Janeiro 2016



Museum of Art of Rio – MARRio de Janeiro 2016



Museum of the FutureRio de Janeiro 2016



TRANSED 2012 13TH International Conference on Mobility and Transport for

All

Regina Cohen, [email protected]

Alice Barros de H. Brasileiro, DSc. Cristiane Rose Duarte , DSc.

Natália Rodrigues de Melo, MSc.

THANK YOU! Pro-Access Group

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

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