Peter Ride

• PhD
• Principal Investigator at University of Westminster

Families with young children typically struggle to engage with traditional art museum environments. This research examined the impact of multisensory tools on family engagement within Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Qatar. Sixty families with at least one child aged 0–11 were observed during two tasks. One task required participants to look at a...

Within a museum context, audio description (AD) is generally thought to be a tool for enhancing access for people with a visual impairment, in other words, as a means of providing access, through verbal description, to visual details of an object or artwork. Taking evidence from researchers and practitioners, we argue that AD has a much broader pot...

The authors discuss the principles of “access for all” in museums, both physical and intellectual access. They explore this question of multisensory processing in neurologically typical individuals, and case studies of two Portuguese museums that experimented with implementation of an “access for all” approach to the presentation of their permanent...

This paper discusses the 'Spectactor' Project, a collaboration between STAR (Science Technology Art Research, University of Plymouth) DA2 (Digital Arts Development Agency), and the Barbican Theatre. The 'holding form' for the Spectactor project is Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, which provides the rich structure of a pilgrimage, which incorporates an i...