Zero Project Inclusive Arts

The Zero Project seeks innovative forms of art and expression worldwide that allow people with disabilities to actively participate in the arts and realize their full potential. The Essl Foundation supports inclusive art projects. The Zero Project Inclusive Arts initiative is dedicated to harnessing the transformative power of Arts and Culture to positively impact society. The Zero Project believes that exposure to and participation in the Arts can strengthen communities, drive economic growth, enhance education, and improve health and wellbeing. This commitment is aligned with international standards, including the UN CRPD, the Marrakesh Treaty, and the American Disability Act of 1990.

The Zero Project finds and shares solutions that remove barriers for persons with disabilities that hinder people with disabilities from accessing the Arts, including access to buildings, education, training, and employment opportunities. An accessible world of Arts and Culture fosters vibrant, inclusive communities, supports disabled Artists, promotes independent living, and encourages entrepreneurship.

Making culture and art more inclusive for all the people, also people with disabilities, notably by:

• creating a Zero Project Database that should let the creators to make world more accessible and the information more known
• building a network and collaborations to amplify the visibility of inclusive arts in society
• promoting intersectional socially engaged work by creatives and professionals across various sectors worldwide
• advocating for the intersection of arts and sustainability
• sharing web/digital accessibility advancements in the arts
• prioritising inclusion and the elimination of various human barriers
• highlighting the importance of the arts in society and its economic value
• recognising the far-reaching impact of inclusive arts on society

Zero Project Inclusive Arts

Zero project is a part of Essl foundation (founded by Martin and Gerda Essl and their children), that is a non-profit foundation according to Austrian law.

i.essl@zeroproject.org

https://zeroproject.org/initiatives/zero-project-inclusive-arts

Principally Austria, but Zero Project also operates in India and Latin America, and their ideas are reproduced in other countries.

Improving the accessibility of cultural European establishments, promoting artists

“Inclusion” by Street Art Belgrade

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AI-based solutions, easy to read and understand, and others (a database of solutions was created as a part of this project)

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private donations, membership dues, governmental contributions

Zero Project India, Zero Project Latin America

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Website accessible in English, materials accessible in English and/or German

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