RéCIT project organised by the Signes de Sens association

RéCIT is the Réseau Culture Inclusif Territoire (Inclusive Culture Network Territory). It is a group of people working on Inclusive Culture. The RéCIT project group is made up of 15 participants. Half of the participants are local cultural players. The other half are self-representatives with disabilities. The RéCIT project supports the Hauts de France region and cultural establishments in their transition to inclusive culture. The inclusive cultural transition is the change towards a way of thinking and doing culture with, by and for everyone

The work consists in regularly organised meeting and workshops where potential inclusive solutions are discussed, as well as the competencies of every person involved and analysing how these competencies can be useful for the project. These people are also talking about their previous cultural experiences and how they can be reused or improved to create a more accessible cultural experience. One of the discussed aspects was for example the visit of a person with a disability in a cultural establishment, from the preparation, through the access to the museum, to the way people with disabilities would navigate through the potential exhibition. The RéCIT project wants to come up with a tool that will, based on these analyses, let evaluate the level of accessibility of every cultural establishment and of every cultural offer. The RéCIT project is being tested for a year. This project is important, because it involves people with disabilities that are suggesting the best solutions adapted to their needs, that they would like to see in cultural establishments.

RéCIT project organised by the association Signes de Sens

Association

Maëlle Bobet is responsible for the RéCIT project. m.bobet@signesdesens.org

https://www.signesdesens.org/le-r%C3%A9seau-recit

France (it is a Lille-based association, but they operate in a wider scope than their city)

• accessible service design
• edition
• accessible document production
• mediation
• training

RéCIT is the Réseau Culture Inclusif Territoire. It is a group working on Inclusive Culture. The RéCIT project supports the Hauts de France region and cultural establishments in their transition to inclusive culture.

Malakoff humanis, Fabernovel, Fondation MACIF, Ville de Lille and others

For the RéCIT programme, all the materials have been written in easy to read and understand. A co-design method has been applied during the creation of materials for this project.

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• 2019 : AG2R Regional Trophy for Social Innovation for Bulle Elix
• 2019 : Alliances Network Diversity Award for the Accessible Youth Edition programme
• 2019 : Winner of La France s’engage for the Elix programme
• 2019 : Label “Tous concernés, tous mobilisés” from the Conférence Nationale du Handicap for the Silence on signe project and the Edition Jeunesse Accessible programme

and many more in the previous years

Private sponsorship, public subsidies, own revenues

For the RéCIT project, Signes de Sens collaborated with Fondation de France; Nord, le Département; Préfet de la Région Hauts-de-France

On demand, as a part of their offer

French, French Sign Language (FSL)

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