PROGRAMME
Panel Discussion 1 【Accessible Cultural Services for All: A Multisensory Approach】
Introduction
-Ms. Annie Leist／Beyond Accessibility: The Multisensory Museum
-Ms. Florence Chao／
-Ms.Li-chuan Emily Wu／The Insights into “Home & House”- Cultural Accessibility Exploration Area for All
Speaker
Moderator
Mr. Chun-Hung Chen
- Director, National Human Rights Museum
Chun-Hung Chen is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Soochow University. He holds an MA in Social Science from the University of Chicago and a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His main research interests are human rights theory, modern political philosophy, and international political theory. He was the recipient of Soochow University Outstanding Teacher Award in 2007, 2010, and 2011. Mr. Chen served as the director of the Chang Fo-Chuan Center for the Study of Human Rights (2014-2017) and the chairperson of Taiwan Association for Truth and Reconciliation (2011-2013). Prior to these positions, he was the director of Amnesty International Taiwan (2008-2010) and a member of the Human Rights Promotion Panel of the Executive Yuan (2009-2010). While working as the chairperson of Taiwan Association for Truth and Reconciliation, he helped edit “The Struggle of Memory Against Oblivion: A Report on Transitional Justice Stages in Taiwan” (three volumes). He is also the author of “Human Rights, Justice, and Politics of Difference” and “Justice in Education.”
Panelist
Ms. Annie Leist
- Artist, Museum Educator, and Cultural Accessibility Consultant
Annie Leist is an artist, educator, and accessibility advocate from New York City. She has taught and consulted at many major cultural institutions. Her art has been seen in numerous solo and group exhibitions over the years, and is represented in corporate and academic collections in the US and abroad.
Panelist
Ms. Yu-Tzu Chao
- Senior Producer and Message Designer of Audio Description Development Association
- Founder of Message Impact, Ltd.
Yu-tzu Chao is a leading audio description lecturer, producer and consultant in Taiwan. She has dedicated herself to the development of accessible services for people with visual impairment and related training programs, particularly for the television, film, performing arts, and museum sectors. Chao is known for her interdisciplinary approach to accessible services by integrating communication, art, education and digital technology. Based on theories of audio description, interpersonal communication, and information transfer, she has developed cultural literacy materials, tactile aids, and user interfaces that are holistic and accessible to a wide spectrum of visitors.
Panelist
Ms. Lichuan Emily Wu
- Assistant Researcher, Education Division, NTMoFA
Lichuan (Emily) Wu has close to ten years of art administration experience in museum exhibitions that spanned non-profit organizations and private galleries. She joined the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts at the end of 2012 and switched gears from museum management to the Education and Promotion Department. Influenced by principles of modern museum studies, she took on the challenge of setting up the first “Demonstration Area for Visually Impaired Audience” in the Museum. In honoring equal rights for all demographics, she has since promoted accessible services and programs for visitors with special needs. In 2017, Lichuan Wu proposed an overall “holistic and accessible” approach to museum programming, and in 2019, she combined education exhibitions with services for the visually impaired and universal design principles, and executed those visions in the exhibition contents, display facilities and educational events.