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The Garden of the Hesperides

This escape room is set in a mythological garden that we must try to access to get the objects that the Hesperides, three nymphs who take care of their wonderful garden, have kept.

This time, to protect the prevailing normative world, Goddess Hera has ordered the Hesperides to hide objects she considers threatening in order to destabilise and break with the normative world. The only limited world in terms of human diversity that she knows of and that the Hesperides try to protect from social inclusion and diversity.

Your mission is to find those objects, the most powerful weapons for inclusion, the objects that are able to make the world more accessible to everyone. But beware! The Hesperides have set hundreds of traps to prevent us from entering their garden, on the other side of the door… so look around you, use your intuition and above all, don’t run out of time!

Objectives

The goal of this escape room is to make people reflect about the importance of accessibility and how we usually do not know about the objects that make people’s lives easier.

In this scenario, these objects are hidden and protected by three very defensive nymphs, who want to preserve the normative world, but the players must recover these objects in order to grant accessibility for people with disabilities, as the most powerful weapons for inclusion.

Toolkit

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The Garden of the Hesperides: How-To Guide

This guide will be a practical approach to the building of the “The Garden of the Hesperides” escape room with information, materials, advice and guidelines to run a workshop.

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Printed Materials

In this document you will find every printable material that you need to set up the “The Garden of the Hesperides” Escape Room, and some links to materials too.

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Key Take-aways

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The idea of this escape room is to publicise and raise awareness of the different accessibility devices that enable people with disabilities to go about their daily lives in an inclusive way, just like the rest of the population.
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These objects will be kept by the Hesperides to protect the regulations and prevent society from being more inclusive, but the aim of the participants is to find them, take them away from the Hesperides and give them to the world to generate a more inclusive society.
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Some of the elements that the participants will come across may be very familiar objects that we take for granted in order to be able to carry out our daily lives in a satisfactory way, and there will also be other objects that are not so well known and more striking but that are nonetheless essential for the lives of people with disabilities.
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The idea is to reflect on each of the elements that the participants have encountered once the escape room time is over so that they can give us feedback on whether they know them or not, if they know how to use them, etc.