Doing Dis/ordered Mappings: Shapes of Inclusive Spaces in Museums

Abstract

Since knowledge is the commodity museums produce, then understanding how this knowledge is produced, shaped, borrowed, and translated, and through what forces, is critical to creating inclusive museums. Through studies of three national Canadian museums, we came to an understanding of how the shaping of space, physical access, and access to knowledge is used and produced to create inclusive museums, not as a product but as an ongoing process. Doing dis/ordered mappings, as an alternate approach to understanding inclusion, allowed for an exploration of the material relations among people, spaces, and things, creating new trajectories and cartographic methods to explore inclusion within museums. This article introduces the benefits of the doing of mappings to explore differing embodiments of people, with and without disabilities, to create an alternative way to approach/encounter/create inclusion for all people and things in our public spaces.

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