Pupils with Profound multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) held an interactive musical show early summer at Birkett House, Wigston, Leicestershire.
The pupils worked alongside practitioners from Enabling Electronicals, Bamboozle Theatre and House of Scattergood on a Sci-art Fusion project.
Sci-art Fusions, is a part of the Ignition* programme, which inspires, surprises and delights young people and wider audiences with the connections between arts, culture, STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) subjects and society.
The Beautiful Butterfly and The Magic Flower is an interactive musical story for children with profound and multiple learning disabilities that is created by the children via novel sensory communication technology.
The butterflies have been specifically designed to interact to movements similar to a Wii games remote.
Using this communication technology the children will be encouraged to participate and change the direction of the story, respond to events within the story and make the musical story ‘theirs’ and so create their own art in a unique and empowering experience.
Dr Sai Pathmanathan, programme director for Ignition*, said, “The Beautiful Butterfly and the Magic Flower’ is a fantastic project which merges creative communication and storytelling with cutting-edge technology.
The technology which develops from the project will have a real impact on the lives of young people with profound and multiple learning disabilities enabling them to communicate in new ways.”
Ignition* is a partner programme of The Mighty Creatives, the young people’s creative development agency for the East Midlands.
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