ON BLINDNESS: Seeing Apparatus and Visual Language for People who are Blind or Sight Impaired
Elizabeth Goldring
Mon-Fri, Jan 8-12, 16-19, 03-06:00pm, N52-390
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: A pilot offering open to anyone interested in creative appro
Participants will explore concepts of blindness, learn simple optics, research existing visual aids. The course intersects areas of art, science, technology and culture to combine theory and practice with an emphasis on furthering new prototypes in seeing apparatus and new concepts of visual language/experiences for the blind. Projects will be determined by the make up of the class and will focus on areas related to engineering, optics, design, psycho physics or art/architecture. Workshop sessions will be complemented by presentations by: Elizabeth Goldring, Dr. Robert Webb (Schepen’s Eye Research Institute, Harvard University), Dr. Jerry Cavallerano (Beetham Eye Insitute, Joslin Diabetes Center), Prof. George Stiny. Dept. of Architecture, MIT, Prof. Krzyzstof Wodiczko, Director CAVS, Dept. of Architecture, MIT.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/veb/index.html
Contact: Elizabeth Goldring, N52-390, x3-4517, goldring@mit.edu
Sponsor: Center for Advanced Visual Studies
Latest update: 23-Oct-2006
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