2017 Cultural Skill Programme: International Museum Academy "Audience Engagement" in Taiwan

Next to an exciting line-up of senior museum curators and practitioners, professors in art and architecture fields and practicing architects from across Taiwan, British Council in Taiwan has invited the below three UK professionals to participate in the IMA programme to give keynote speeches and to lead professional workshop. 

• Marcus Dickey Horley: Visitor Experience Manager and Curator of Public Programmes, Tate, London

  Marcus Dickey Horley has worked for over twenty years in the delivery of visitor experience, accessibility, staff training and audience development across the cultural sector in the UK. At Tate, he has developed and delivered a series of popular and successful programmes that have enabled previously excluded audiences to engage with gallery collection displays. He has developed a series of training courses to enable Deaf people to become qualified Gallery Guides and has championed the use of British Sign language as a first language for gallery tours. Working with Visually Impaired artists, he has also delivered a series of artist-led gallery workshop activities and has curated spotlight exhibitions such as Edges and Extremes, which addressed the way in which museum collections manage their physical spaces in order to enable everybody to participate. Internationally, Marcus has lectured in Sydney, Moscow, Dubai and Qatar on the themes of access and inclusion, and has recently delivered Access audit and inclusivity training at the National Museum of Oman and to the Sharjah Museums Service in the UAE.

• Claire Dobbin: International Museum Consultant, KCA London, UK

  Claire is a curator and educator with a broad range of international museum experience. She has developed and delivered professional development training in the UK and the Gulf, where she is currently working with TalentS|KCA to train the facilitator team for the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Claire was Senior Curator at London Transport Museum, where she worked for seven years (2005-2012), specialising in the Underground’s art and design heritage. Between 2012 and 2016 Claire worked for Qatar Museums, managing a Curatorial and Collections department. Claire is also a visiting lecturer on the Museums, Galleries and Contemporary Culture MA course at the University of Westminster, and she is involved in a number of research projects relating to multisensory learning.

• Asif Khan: Architect and Designer, UK

  Asif Khan founded his architecture practice in 2007. The studio works internationally on projects ranging from cultural buildings to landscapes, exhibitions and installations. Khan's practice investigates how technology, matter, nature and human sensibility can be utilised to define and enhance the atmosphere and specificity of place and space. His interest expands this idea into how material and social innovations can fundamentally alter the way people experience and shape their environment. His current projects include UK Pavilion for Astana Expo 2017, the forthcoming new Museum of London at West Smithfield, and various works at Expo 2020 Dubai. Notable past projects include Serpentine Pavilion 2016, MegaFaces Pavilion at Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics and Coca-Cola Beatbox at London 2012 Olympics. Khan is the recipient of numerous awards including a Red Dot Design Award, Cannes Lion Grand Prix for Innovation, and D&AD award. He sits on the Board of Trustees for the Design Museum and teaches MA Architecture at the Royal College of Art.