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Making Sense: Working together to create new resources

We share more about this exciting partnership project to create resources for blind and partially sighted visitors

During 2025 we started working on Making Sense, a project with adults and young people who are blind or partially sighted, designed to improve their experience of visiting DCA.

Working with University of Dundee, Studio Ordinary, PhD student Eevee (Jinyu) Han, Dundee Sight Support and Social Hub, and North East Sensory Services (NESS) Young People’s Sensory Service, we've been exploring how we can co-create resources that assist people who are blind or have low vision to experience exhibitions in DCA Galleries and printmaking in DCA Print Studio. Here's the story so far...

Published

Thu 22 Jan

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Touch tours and audio guides

To explore how we can provide gallery experiences for blind and partially sighted visitors, we worked with adults from Dundee Sight Support and Social Hub.

The process started with members of our Learning and Exhibition teams visiting the hub. they took along sensory boxes, filled with materials and items linked to our exhibitions for the groups to explore. 

This was followed by the groups coming to DCA for touch tours of Lauren Gault’s work in bone stone voice alone. They also worked on creating and testing a collaborative audio guide to the work on show. 

Led by Dr Paul Gault, DJCAD Lecturer, and Eevee, PhD researcher, this collaboration will continue with upcoming exhibition, We Contain Multitudes, with the goal of developing even more accessible resources for visitors of all ages.

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Supporting young people to create prints

This project also saw us working with young people from North East Sensory Services (NESS) Young People’s Service to pilot various printmaking techniques.  

This group of young people living with sight loss visited Create Space for Saturday sessions led by our Learning team and freelance artist tutors David P Scott and Suzie Scott. The group created their own artwork and learned more about printmaking by visiting DCA Print Studio. 

NESS Coordinator Diana Daneels shared:

Suzie and David supported them really well with explaining what different effects look like and it was lovely to see the young people roll up their sleeves to experiment.

Collage of black shapes on white paper
Making Sense
Abstract gelli print made with black and pink ink
Making Sense
Tote bag with red rectangle with the name Roddy printed in green ink
Making Sense
Collection of collages on a red table
Making Sense
Collage of black shapes on white paper
Making Sense
Abstract gelli print made with black and pink ink
Making Sense
Tote bag with red rectangle with the name Roddy printed in green ink
Making Sense
Collection of collages on a red table
Making Sense
Collage of black shapes on white paper
Making Sense
Abstract gelli print made with black and pink ink
Making Sense
Tote bag with red rectangle with the name Roddy printed in green ink
Making Sense
Collection of collages on a red table
Making Sense

What's next

We've really been enjoying working with both groups and are excited to see how the project develops. We look forward to welcoming them back to DCA in 2026 and working together to create a range of resources that will improve visits for blind and partially sighted people of all ages.

Thanks to the University of Dundee Collaborate for Impact award for providing funding towards this activity.

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