Designing an Inclusive Museum Experience: Postgraduate Space and Service Design

The Postgraduate Space and Service Design programme is a one-year postgraduate degree focusing on designing for change and social service design. Students build on their BA or MA in design (industrial, product, graphic, architecture, interior, etc.) , art or social sciences. They use their own, personal vision to add sustainable value to public spaces and improve the accessibility and experience of public services. Each project touches one or two of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. The postgraduate students work together with real-life service providers as well as the users of the service being created.

The second brief of the 2021-22 schoolyear is working together with the Museum Dr. Guislain to create inclusive museum experiences. As part of a Creative Europe Erasmus + project, the students are working internationally with other european universities on the same theme. The main aim of this project is to support Museum Dr Guislain in providing mindful tourism services that are accessible for mentally impaired people and at the same time not stigmatizing for people or with special needs.

In November 2021, the Postgraduate students worked three days on location in Ghent, Belgium exploring the museum and working with its staff, its team of volunteers as well as local participants with mental impariments.

For more information about studying at the Thomas More University of Applied Sciences in the Postgraduate Space and Service Design programme, please visit: http://www.spaceandservicedesign.be