what I keep from this film

land of silence and darkeness

"In this astonishing documentary about the world of the deaf-blind, acclaimed director Werner Herzog (Signs of Life, Aguirre: The Wrath of God) explores the life of Fini Straubinger, a remarkable and kind-hearted 56-year-old deaf and blind woman who has dedicated her life to helping the similarly afflicted.
From their first flight on an airplane to a day at a petting-zoo, Herzog captures the joys and struggles of those who have been isolated from the world around them.
Land of Silence and Darkness is a tribute to the triumphant nature of the human spirit and a glimpse into an existence so intense and abstract that at times it seems to reach great lyrical heights. "

eye and brain from Richard L. Gregory

Product DescriptionSince the publication of the first edition in 1966, Eye and Brain has established itself worldwide as an essential introduction to the basic phenomena of visual perception. In this book, Richard L. Gregory offers clear explanations of how we see brightness, movement, color, and objects, and he explores the phenomena of visual illusions to establish principles about how perception normally works and why it sometimes fails. Although successive editions have incorporated new discoveries and ideas, Gregory completely revised and updated the book for this publication, adding more than thirty new illustrations. The phenomena of illusion continue to be a major theme in the book, in which the author makes a new attempt to provide a comprehensive classification system. There are also new sections on what babies see and how they learn to see, on motion perception, and tantalizing glimpses of the relationship between vision and consciousness and of the impact of new brain imaging techniques. In addition, the presentation of the text and illustrations has been improved by the larger format and new page design. The thousands of readers of the previous editions of Eye and Brain will find this new revised edition even more attractive and enthralling.

reference from Mark, this is an extract, I'll download the movie

1st idea: the house eye's

The concept is to have a central room, and an open-space.

Moving or find the right way is diffilcult for a blind person.

This central room would be the place where the family spend the most of them time. For example, kitchen or tv room, ...

From this room, you can see all of the others rooms. It's easy to move between them.

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the blind photographer

Evgen Bavcar is a completly blind photographer. Born in 1946 in Slovenia, he lost the ability to see at 12 after an accident. Four years later, he put his hands on a camera for the first time, to take a picture of his girlfriend.

"The pleasure I felt then resulted from my having robbed and fixed on a film something that did not belong to me, I secretly discovered I could possess something that I could not see"

"Blindart"

" BlindArt is a charitable organisation based in UK whose aim is to encourage participation and interaction of the visually impaired in the sighted domain of the visual arts.
BlindArt promotes artists; both sighted and visually impaired, to showcase their work through competitions, exhibitions, fairs, shows and private commissions."

dialog in the dark

This exhibition was last year in Strasbourg. The concept was created by the Dr Andreas Heincke in 1988.

You spend 1h in the dark, with a guide who was blind. You realize a sensory and personel experience.

After this experience, you are more able to understand how is it to be blind.

blind person could have problem with (click on it for a better lecture

2nd day, definition

blind

• adjective 1 lacking the power of sight; unable to see. 2 done without being able to see or without necessary information. 3 lacking perception, judgement, or reason. 4 concealed, closed, or blocked off. 5 (of flying) using instruments only. 6 informal the slightest: it didn’t do a blind bit of good.
• verb 1 make blind. 2 deprive of understanding or judgement. 3 (blind with) confuse or overawe (someone) with (something they do not understand).
• noun 1 a screen for a window. 2 something designed to conceal one’s real intentions.
• adverb without being able to see clearly.
— PHRASES bake blind bake (a flan case) without a filling. blind drunk informal extremely drunk. turn a blind eye pretend not to notice. said to be in allusion to Nelson, who lifted a telescope to his blind eye at the Battle of Copenhagen (1801), thus not seeing the signal to ‘discontinue the action’. when the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into a ditch proverb those people without knowledge or experience should not try to guide others in a similar position.
— DERIVATIVES blindly adverb blindness noun.

1st day

I'm with Sarah, Jason and Julian. We decided to choose Indepence days as a project. We started with the idea to create an apartment for blind people.

Independance days project