Can blind people make great architects?
Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL has been running an architecture workshop for people with visual impairments.
Visualise yourself entering a new building. What do you notice first?
The answer for most people will probably be the internal structure, the colour of the walls, the light entering through the windows. But stay a little longer and you might start to experience the space differently: you’ll hear sound reverberating, you’ll feel air currents, textures and materials, you’ll smell wafts from the kitchen.
For blind people, this multi-sensory experience is their first impression of a space. And now a new programme is trying to harness that unique ability by training more visually impaired people to become architects.
As the first step in running a foundation course aimed at people who see things differently, the Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL ran an architecture and design workshop [Architecture Beyond Sight] for people with visual impairments this summer.
- Rachel Hall, The Guardian
Find out more about Architecture Beyond Sight here.
