Creative Users Projects is working with communities with lived experiences of disability and difference across Canada to co-create solutions that make difference discoverable and vital in a world that is transforming to digital. Our research and development initiative, Accessing the Arts, aims to build a business model and service that is created in collaboration with the communities it hopes to serve. 

Accessing the Arts is a Deaf and disability arts initiative bringing together artists and arts leaders to build knowledge around digital strategy in our communities and centre difference in the design and development of accessible digital solutions.

Download the report: Accessing the Arts: Towards Difference-Centred Design

Accessing the Arts Artist Focus Groups

April 24 to May 20, 2020

From April 24 to May 20, 2020, we hosted a series of online co-design thinking workshops facilitated by guest artists to open dialogue about accessing the arts and share stories around what it means to access artistic experiences pre- and post- the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Participants shared their memorable experiences as artists and audience members, as well as the ways the health crisis was impacting their communities or individual lives at the time.

We are grateful to all of the artist co-researchers who brought their approaches and insights to this project.