Every day the visually impaired are undertaking analysis of their own man-made context in which they live, in order to safely survive and hopefully thrive. But they traditionally have not been asked to synthesise, create and design a new building and community. That, normally, has been the domain of those who are not visually impaired and have professional training ie architects and city planners.
Why shouldn't a visually impaired person create an interior design proposal, sdesign a house, propose an urban community village?
There is no really reason why not, the process and the product presentation may be a little different, but will the end result be worse or better?
With this in mind the author proposed a Summer School for the Visually Impaired Adults at Bristol University (UK) called "So you want to be an Architect" to test the above premise.
Over the next period further courses were developed:
Village Planning
Unseen Newcastle
Room with a View (Sirootieries)
The author and instigation of these courses, felt it was necessary to undertake
a student survey of all four courses in order to provide further insight in
the way the visually impaired undertook the design process.
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