DAY 3 WORKSHOP • THURSDAY 17 SEPTEMBER • 13.30 – 14.30
Sensory mapping; Designing more predictable and inclusive experience
Sensory maps are a valuable pre-visit resource to help identify the sensory experiences within the built environment. They help to map the environment indicating elements such as noise levels, smells, light, material textures, crowds, rest points, temperature and interactive elements/exhibits, helping to make an experience more predictable. Sensory maps can benefit everyone, and are particularly helpful for people with sensory processing differences (common amongst neurodivergent people).
The workshop will be a creative and collaborative opportunity to provide feedback about sensory experiences in the space (e.g. light, sound, smells, textures), which will feed into the design of a sensory map for future events.
Madeleine Granland, Senior Accessibility and Inclusive Design Consultant, Mima
Madeleine Granland
Madeleine is a Senior Accessibility and Inclusive Design Consultant who specialises in designing for neurodiversity and the cultural sector. She has experience working across projects in UK, United States, KSA and Australia.
Madeleine is passionate about the using best practice guidance and research alongside embedding stakeholder engagement and co-design processes into projects to create inclusive and equitable experiences within the built environment.
She has lead two research studies on sensory mapping, drawing on input from over 600 people with lived experience of neurodivergence, across 23 countries.