Estrategias metodológicas para promover la accesibilidad cognitiva en museos orientada a personas con discapacidad intelectual.

Abstract

Abstract: This research delves into an ethnographic analysis of a community, cultural, and creative artistic mediation experience developed over approximately eight years (2017 2025) at the Museos de la Ciudad Foundation in Ecuador. However, it focuses on the specific case of the Quito Contemporary Art Center during two years of work (2022 2023) alongside the Ecuadorian Federation for the Care of People with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Families (FEPAPDEM) in the co-creation of cognitive accessibility measures aimed at people with intellectual disabilities. This is achieved through a participatory process that placed people with intellectual disabilities as protagonists and with them, various tools were designed and implemented such as: an easy-to-read guide, signage with cognitive accessibility criteria, a sensory discharge room and visit routes built under the wayfinding approach. This proposal is framed above all in the social model of disability and in the pedagogical approaches of non-formal education, recognizing people with disabilities as subjects of rights and propositional elements and not only as passive recipients.