A series of ten chapters, which addresses topics such as the lunar surface, electromagnets, and procedural memory, among others, was created exclusively for the deaf community and led by Constanza, whose primary form of communication is Chilean sign language (LSCh). The result leaves no one indifferent.
By Dania Escobar andy Darío Cuellar
/ cicat@udec.cl
/ Photograpies: Courtesy of CICAT
Little by little we have become accustomed to seeing audiovisual content that includes interpretation in sign language; however, this space is always relegated to a corner of the screen. How would a production designed and developed for the deaf community be like?
ScienceInSings is an initiative developed by the Explora Biobío Project, funded by the Ministry of Science and executed by the Universidad deity of Concepción, through the Interactive Center for Sciences, Arts and Technologies (CICAT) primarily destined to the deaf community in our country.
The process behind ScienceInSigns was full of challenges.
José Lazcano, co-founder of Lense Biobío, the organization in charge of running the capsulesshort videos, comments: “The objective of the initiative is to bring science closer to the deaf community, but generating content for themselves. What makes these capsules short videos interesting is that they are in sign language and their protagonist is a deaf person”.
This way, he clarifies that the project is relevant because it contributes to visualizing sign language, understanding that it is a language that allows access to all types of information.
This series of ten chapters is the second season of this initiative, since the first experience of this type took place at the end of 2020, when Explora Biobío decided to run ScienceInSigns: Biobío museums, where eight museums of the region were shown, capsules were also perfomed by deaf people.
In this version, the contents were focused on showing different scientific experiments and concepts, where all the chapters were recorded at CICAT, located in Coronel city.
From Explora Biobío, its director Juan Carlos Gacitúa comments: “With ScienceInSigns we seek to design and provide materials that were exclusively created for the deaf community. The pandemic has highlighted the main inequalities in society and we have realized that on the Internet, social media and television, there is no material designed especially for this community.” He continues, “from the Explora Biobío project we believe that science, scientific knowledge and technology must reach everyone, this is part of our commitment to reduce inequalities and access to scientific information for all the population”.
The series addresses topics such as the lunar surface, electromagnets, procedural memory, among others, and it can be found on Explora Biobío, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
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Last modified: 2 de junio de 2023
