Rafie Cecilia

Inclusive technology and creative digital innovation practice, especially in relation to museums and collections, including AI applications, 3D printing and modelling, accessible software, wayfinding & navigation. Artificial Intelligence as assistive technology in the cultural sector and higher education for people with disabilities and other learning needs. GLAM audiences and the way they make meaning of museum collections, focusing on politics of display, situated meaning-making, and embodied forms of cognition. Identity and representation of people with disabilities in GLAM collections, particularly looking at positive representation of disability through the lenses of emancipatory framework. Inclusive governance and policy-making, and specifically the use of co-design and co-creation to challenge traditional and ableist forms of governance, to enable people with disabilities to be fully involved in organisational decision making.

Cecilia, R., 2024. Challenging ableism: including non-normative bodies and practices in collections care. In A. Stevenson and C. Krmpotich, (eds.) Collections Management as Critical Museum Practice. London: UCL Press, chapter 7. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800087040 Cecilia, R. Moussouri, T., Fraser, J. 2023. AltText: an institutional tool for change. Curator: The Museum Journal, 66/2: 225-231