Development of an activity or a path, temporarily renouncing the use of sight through the use of masks and blindfolds. Through the “dark” experience the normal sighted person is put through a test and, finding himself outside of his comfort zone, uses the residual senses discovering a new orientation method in the space, as well as a different system of interaction and learning of places, works, objects.
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Exhibit Design for Architecture: A Non-Digital Method for the Inclusive Communication of an Architecture
Cecilia Cecchini (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) and Miriam Mariani (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 25
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7555-9.ch008
Abstract
This chapter introduces a novel method of communication, based on an analytical and analogical fact-finding journey, aimed at comprehending an architectural design for a more extended and inclusive usership, in particular for visually impaired and blind people. The study focuses on the communication aspects of architecture and the methodology considered effective in architectural criticism, with the aim of attaining deep and real understanding of those principles that represent its tangible expression. Starting from an in-depth theoretical fact-finding analysis, the research suggests a slow and completely non-digital exhibition, available to normally sighted, visually impaired, and blind people, and also for an informed and a non-informed audience. The study was carried out with the support of Public Engagement Department of the MAXXI Museum in Rome (National Museum of the 21st Century Arts) as part of the plan for the accessibility of museum collections.