Cards for Inclusion is a card game that helps the cultural sector think creatively about barriers to cultural participation for people with disabilities and Deaf people. It challenges us to think outside the box about how to make what we propose to the public more accessible.
The cards were designed by Jo Verrent of Unlimited, the UK organization that commissions, supports, funds and promotes new work by disabled artists, for audiences in the UK and internationally.
Access to the game in Portuguese
Unlimited proposed to Acesso Cultura to translate the game into Portuguese. In each country where the game is translated, the illustrations are done by a disabled artist. The illustrations in the Portuguese version are by Daniel Moraes. The Portuguese version has also something new: it includes, via QR code, the audio description of all illustrations. This work was done by Catarina Sobral and Emanuel Rodrigues, audio describers in training.
About Daniel Moraes and his inspiration
“The illustrations created for the game “Letters for Inclusion” were inspired by the woodcuts of Cordel Literature from northeastern Brazil. This originally goes back to the stories told by Renaissance romance novelists, printed in Portugal in leaflet format in the 16th century. Based on the graphic style of the original cordel drawings – simple, synthetic aesthetics, with few colors and associated with popular culture – I developed this series of 75 digital illustrations, which take into account the thematic titles of each card in the game.”
Daniel Moraes (São Paulo, 1981) has Master’s degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and graduated in Design from Facamp. From the beginning of his career, he has investigated conflicts between his body and artistic practices, mainly through drawing, painting and video-happening. Decorporeity – studies on the corporeality of disability – is the focus of his current productions, which articulates relationships between monstrosity and humanity, def studies and tensions between art, body and education. More recently, he developed the course “Art and Disability: a possible design” for Sesc Avenida Paulista (São Paulo, 2024); he exhibited the video-happening “Hand in hand with my sister” at the exhibition Lines of Thoughts, CICA MUSEUM (Korea, 2021) and at the collective exhibition Do Drawing at Centro Cultural da Caixa (Rio de Janeiro, 2024).
Credits
Conception: Jo Verrent
Illustration: Daniel Moraes
Design: Rui Belo
Translation: Maria Vlachou
Audio description: Catarina Sobra and Emanuel Rodrigues (in training)
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