This unique project, with lasting impact and legacy, would support young people with reduced mobility and fine motor control problems to express themselves artistically. We would run activities in partnership with schools specialising in SEND and others, including: - Meeting with and getting to know the pupils and assessing their individual needs.
- Consulting with children, their parents and carers about what mobility they do have, as well as the difficulties they face.
- Review with pupils what different digital artistic packages there are. This will include a fully immersive VR encounter, in which pupils can be released from their physical bonds and enjoy a unique creative experience.
- Review the above, and design and build bespoke physical computing interfacing devices for each young person, to enable them to better engage with one or more of these digital art packages. This work will involve pupils themselves if they are interested, as well as other pupils in the school with an interest in technology.
Return to one or more of the digital art packages, in which each pupil will use their bespoke interface devices to create new art with a freedom beyond anything they will have experienced before. - Exhibit all the finished artworks in a physical installation space, open to the general public to view via screen and Virtual Reality headsets.
- Create a virtual gallery available to all.
Pupils will keep their own bespoke interface devices, which would support connections to any personal computer. |