Accessibility:
an ethical standard designed to guarantee everyone independent participation in cultural life.
Approach:
the overall way of responding to thematic issues of accessibility, inclusion and equity.
Cultural mediation:
a cultural action strategy that uses custom-designed projects for and with distant publics in order to build bridges between them and cultural organizations or institutions.
Cultural organizations and institutions:
organizations of every type that participate in training, creation, production, performance and dissemination activities pertaining to the arts and culture.
Diversities:
all types of diversity, including, but not necessarily limited to, cultural, social, linguistic, cognitive, functional, artistic, corporal, sexual/gender, generational and regional diversity – in other words, the entire population with the inherent particularities and differences of its individual members.
Equity:
the equitable or fair representation of all types of diversity in cultural organizations and institutions.
Inclusion:
the use of educational and cultural mediation approaches to support the active participation of groups more distant from organizational and institutional sites.
Marginalized groups:
all groups that are systemically denied equal status in society.
Principle:
a major thematic concept that can inform the understanding of issues and the responses to them.
Public:
all the varied and constantly changing social groups reached by the programming of cultural organizations and institutions.