ABSTRACT
Chapter 8: Inclusive Ecologies: Care-full Codesigning in More Than Human Worlds highlights how museums and galleries have made efforts to be more inclusive over the last ten years, primarily through the emphasis on visitor studies. They continue, however, to have issues with making their environments and content accessible. This chapter explores the tensions and opportunities for inclusion in a more-than-human world and how to bring together humans and non-humans to collaborate on new models of practice through a care-based ecological approach and care-full codesigning. By using codesign methods to actively engage people with differing abilities, these studies create new trajectories for inclusion that address the full spectrum of need and choice, for all users of the museum and gallery. Moving beyond visitor studies, the research presents new methods and strategies for museums and galleries when designing for inclusion, sharing key findings from case study research in the national award-winning exhibition, Vis-ability in Brisbane, Australia, and research undertaken in Winnipeg, Canada, at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
