Consultancy
Summary
- We offer consulting services to artists and organisations
- We can help you scope — and produce — access strategies that are informed by your needs and your community
- Some of the consulting services we offer include tailored access consultations, drop-in access clinics, image description, audio description, captioning, sensory stage and costume design, and accessible publication design
Access consultations for artists and presenters
We especially love talking about access from the early stages of a work — where access strategies can become an integral part of creative expression rather than an unwieldy add-on.
As artists, writers and designers, we relish the chance to listen carefully to your ideas. We can suggest existing methods or tools that might resonate, and fit within your budget. And where no existing methods fit, we can help you devise new approaches.
Drop-in access clinics
For festivals and commissioning programmes, we can host a drop-in access clinic for artists who are considering an application — enhancing the impact of an idea, while supporting them to consider modes of working with access, and also helping them to devise an access budget or rider before submitting a proposal. Drop-in clinics can be organised as in-person sessions and/or online.
Drop-in access guidance can also be useful for artists, independent companies or producers who’ve been looking to extend their engagement with sensory access, but have encountered a barrier – or just gotten stuck on a next step.
Image description
There as many approaches to image description as there are ways of looking at an image! We can talk with you about the range of literary and informative possibilities that could align with your creative and functional objectives. Rather than assuming image description is neutral, we understand point-of-view, and can draft descriptions for single images, slideshows, or collections of images, aligned with your ethics and aesthetics.
Audiodescription for creative works
Most established approaches to audiodescription prefer a neutral position, where interpretation should be avoided. We specialise in fostering audiodescriptive approaches that are interpretive, expressive or even performative — acknowledging the subjectivity of the describer.
Captioning approaches for video and live performance
We love captioning and the incredible potential it holds for conveying meaning through timing, positioning, style and subjectivity. Talk to us about spatially — and temporally-aware captioning of screen content, live performance or even remote performance. (You might never type ‘[music]’ in your captions again...)
Sensory stage and costume design
Is your staging or costuming inclusive for performers or audiences with sensory impairments? We can help you think through sensory wayfinding and performance cues, tactile printing, model-making and more.
Accessible publication design
From marketing to instructional materials, posters and websites to book-length publications, we can bring together skilled people to assist with any process — from writing Plain English or Easy Read copy to contrast-friendly colour palettes, responsive layouts, multilingual design, and textured printing and debossing.