00:00Obviously the rail is great for that. You see people that you don't meet anywhere else in passing and make friends as you go.
00:07It's also about using art and people's creativity as a medium to communicate, to learn and to create things.
00:14There's not so much to see in this room but as you walk through there's a big tree and there's swallows and there's a cloud.
00:21That's all created and dreamt up by local artists and working with local people.
00:26And we wanted to keep it in the aesthetic of the credit and station tea rooms.
00:30So we used things like Dartmoor Line fabric and materials to create things that absorb sound.
00:37So accessibility and inclusion is what drives the turning target project.
00:41And quite often when you talk about accessibility and inclusion you think about wheelchairs, you think about winding access doors.
00:48You think about all the things that are physically disabling people.
00:51What you don't often think about is sound, about light, about all the other things that give you input that can overload you and make your day more challenging.
01:00So when we did the toilets and made it accessible, when we did the floor and we changed the size of the doors,
01:05what we realised was that there were things that we hadn't done yet and that's where the Artcoostics project came in.
01:11So the tree and the clouds out there in particular and the curtains and the curtains that are here all create a softer space.
01:19Before we did it I certainly wouldn't have been able to talk to you all like this.
01:22Because the sound would just bounce around and you wouldn't hear anything other than maybe their conversation as they have coffee on the table over there.
01:29So without the support of Dublin Core Rail Partnership and the Community Rail Development Fund,
01:36with a joint initiative of the Department of Transport and the Community Rail Network,
01:40and with significant seals who helped us create the tree,
01:44we wouldn't have been able to make a space as accessible and as inclusive as this.
01:48So thank you, thank you for coming and thank you for being able to hear me.
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