The Carrying of Passengers is Forbidden
- Submitting institution
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Teesside University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 10023967
- Type
- L - Artefact
- Location
- DaDaFest International, St Georges Hall and Museum of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
- Open access status
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- Month of production
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- Year of production
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The Carrying of Passengers is Forbidden stepped outside normative museology (Sandell and Dodd, 2010) to intervene intellectually in multiple discourses; design for disability (Goldsmith, 1992; Guffy, 2017), the mobilities paradigm (Goggin, 2016), technology and disabled people (Roulstone, 1998; Harris, 2010; Nussbaum, 2011; Millar, 2014), material culture studies and Universal Design (Imrie, 2014), fine art, heritage and motor history. It developed new knowledge and analysis within design and disability history in order to provide a critical account rich in a range of perspectives.
McKeown revealed lost and absented national and international records, recognising iconic but once quotidian disability motor vehicles, to create a cohesive model of museum and gallery practice. The resulting transformations of notions of the invalid tricycle built a significant research narrative, instigating a more holistic, inclusive approach to mainstream motoring history. McKeown acts as a pioneer in acknowledging a cultural status and relevance, previously missing, ignored and suppressed.
By identifying and analysing at risk and forgotten materials, McKeown established the UK's most extensive collection of historic disability-related vehicles and contemporaneous ephemera. This led to significant engagement with the UK Disability Art festival, DaDaFest International (2018), the Museum of Liverpool, St Georges Hall and Beamish, creating a model for engagement with the public, producers and historians to ensure recognition and contextualisation of lost history.
McKeown secured Heritage Fund support, commissioned the first book on disability tricycles, created an innovative 3D interactive heritage animation and with disabled volunteers, informed new approaches to curation by museums. As an expert, his contribution was sought by Channel 4’s Great British Car Journeys, Forces TV and the BBC Four's People’s History of the NHS.
Through this research, McKeown became the voluntary Director of the Invalid Carriage Register, custodian and co-creator of a unique archive, and custodian of elements of the Disabled Motoring UK archives.
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- Non-English
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