(a documentation on our help towards the visually impaired.)
"IT'S A TERRIBLE THINjG TO SEE AND HAVE NO VISION"-HELEN KELLER
POSTER!
Born with deficient sight and hearing, Helen Keller morphed her greatest curse into the mightiest blessing for all mankind by sensitizing society to think for the blind ,not as disabled, but as differently abled'. The space and place programme envisages, re-echoing and reinventing Keller's urgency to sensitize and equip the modern thinking, to absorb the visually different in the mainstream work culture.
The space and place project empowered me to visualise the impediments that don't allow visually impaired people to lead a normal life. Heavy footwork research revealed startling inadequacies in a system ridden with blind. Shopkeepers, drivers and people around them treat them with sympathy, not 'empathy', allowing them temporary discounts and freebees, which unintentionally humiliate or hurt the sentiments of the visually impaired.
Work places are not quite well equipped to deal with such customers or workers and that is why they end up on the reservation lists. Designing visiting cards put us literally in the shoes of the blind, making us understand the signature of shape, size, texture, colour and aroma of the things to be any real help to them.The appalling neglect in putting up public and
VISITING CARDS!
Embassadors of goodwill ; what better way to get into the minds and hearts of everyone than on braille cards,sought of advertising ,the potential competitive consumers,who are well informed in market survey and socially active. Th e card to be made a little bigger is better,allowing the blind to 'percieve'the content.
SHIRTS!
SIGN BOARDS!
We are now making an endeavour,to make our college blind friendly,to start with.bright boards,(in english as well) with brailled room numbers have been put up everywhere needed,to guide all visitors,especially the ones visually impaired
We are now making an endeavour,to make our college blind friendly,to start with.bright boards,(in english as well) with brailled room numbers have been put up everywhere needed,to guide all visitors,especially the ones visually impaired
The whole experience has been compellingly educative with residual feeling of frustration and revealed how all of us take sight for granted and have little or no time for contributing whatever little we can ,to the differently abled. This has truly envisioned me to think for others and hopefully design for a better academic and social environment for them.
"KEEP YOUR FACE TOWARDS THE SUNSHINE,AND YOU'LL NEVER SEE THE SHADOW"-Helen Keller
saumya!! only you could have written this.. Quite impressed..
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