Distraction
Highlights
- Explore the Ian Potter Museum of Art, where creativity sparks curiosity in a vibrant cultural hub.
- Engage with the free exhibition at Science Gallery Melbourne, highlighting the playful nature of modern distractions.
- Navigate through a whirlwind of content, discovering how distractions shape our coping mechanisms in today's chaotic world.
- Immerse yourself in a thought-provoking experience at 114 Grattan Street, where art meets the complexities of existence.
This free exhibition plugs into the streaming torrent of content and the places the brains goes when people want to focus on anything but the thing. You know, that thing you’re supposed to be doing right now?
Your distraction of choice could be scrolling, daydreaming or escaping into a digital universe. When people are bouncing around the whirring, flashing pinball machine of existence – is the wayward attention a way of coping with the chaos?
Visit Science Gallery Melbourne to experience the playful ways people devote their time in an increasingly nonsensical world. With a hundred tabs open and endless avenues to explore, how does one harness the cacophony of content and find meaning within it?
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- Next occurrence: reoccurring
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Actively welcomes people with access needs.
General access
- Offers multiple options for booking – web, email, phone is available.
- Offers a range of contact methods for receiving complaints.
- Companion Cards are accepted.
- Employs people with disabilities.
- Staff are trained in disability awareness.
- Accessibility information and photos, including of a bathroom, room and/or floor plan on their website (can be emailed on request).
- Asks all visitors if there are any specific needs to be met.
- Assistance with booking arrangements (includes providing clear itineraries with written instructions on what to do at various destinations)
Communication
Welcomes and assists people who have challenges with learning, communication, understanding and behaviour. (includes people with autism, intellectual disability, Down syndrome, acquired brain injury (ABI), dyslexia and dementia)
- Staff are trained in communicating with people with learning or behavioural challenges.
- Uses Plain English / easy read signage and information (includes menus and emergency information)
- A quiet space is available at the venue/ facility.
Physical – Mobility
Caters for people with sufficient mobility to climb a few steps but who would benefit from fixtures to aid balance. (This includes people using walking frames and mobility aids)
- Seating in common areas including reception area
Physical – Wheelchair
Caters for people who use a wheelchair.
- Step free outdoor pathways (includes picnic areas, barbecues and shelters)
- A step free main entrance to the building and/or reception area (includes ramps or slopes with a maximum gradient of 1:14, otherwise are too steep for wheelchairs)
- Step free access to restaurant, lounge and bar
- Accessible seating areas in theatrette
- Lifts with enough space for people using a mobility aid to enter and turn around to use the lift buttons. Buttons are at accessible height.
- Doorways which are easy to open and have lever handles (doorways 850mm or wider when open and not heavy).
- An accessible public toilet which is unlocked.
- A wheelchair accessible toilet / shower and change room is available.
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