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DM-GY 9103 Museum Access and Accessible Interpretation

This multidisciplinary course allows students from a variety of backgrounds to work together to learn about and develop assistive technology for historical sites and museums. Students will work in teams to develop prototypes for individuals with diverse motor, cognitive, sensory, and behavior-emotional abilities.

Instructors : Amy Hurst, Tripta Velamoor

Sample Syllabus

DM-UY 4913 Digital Accessibility and Creative Applications

In this course students will learn fundamental concepts and skills of digital accessibility and apply them creatively and intuitively to their own creative projects. Accessibility will be centered as a requirement for creation, rather than as an afterthought. We will explore how implementing accessible modalities such as alt-text, tactile graphics, captioning, audio description, and touch objects can deepen students’ understanding of the chosen subject or theme while broadening the audience for their work. Students can focus on creating accessible interpretations of existing artwork in the public domain or their own original artwork in any medium, such as (but not limited to) AR/VR, gaming, photography, drawing/painting, textiles, sculpture or physical computing. Students will use Adobe Creative Suite for video and sound editing and for creating captions and audio descriptions. Digital fabrication tools such as 3D printing, laser cutting, embossing, microcapsule printing and digital embroidery can be used for creating tactile graphics and touch objects. Disabled artists and members of the disability arts community will be invited as guest lecturers and critics. We will survey artists working across access modalities and read texts on Disability Arts Activism, disability-centered art praxis, and creative access.

Instructor – Stefanie Koseff

DM-GY 7053 Developing Assistive Technology

This multi-disciplinary course allows students from a variety of backgrounds to work together to develop examples of assistive technology. Partnering with outside organization students will work in teams to identify a clinical need relevant to a certain clinical site or client population, and learn the process of developing an idea and following that through the development of a prototype product. The major learning activity is the design and fabrication of a device (piece of equipment, software, etc.) that meets a specific need for a specific person with a disability or a clinic that treats clients with disabilities or a category of people with similar needs as a result of their disability.

Most recent class site : https://wp.nyu.edu/ap_classes_dat_f23/

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Instructors: Amy Hurst, Anita Perr