Blind Urbanism —— 触常者の三原則

隨著視覺技術的進步，在只能利用導盲設施幫助視障者的視覺主義社會中，少數的他們該何去何從呢？面對這樣的問題，我將主要依賴觸覺生活的視覺障礙者稱為「觸常者」，並以觸覺為基礎來建構城市。我在盲校從聽覺和壓力的角度進行了研究，並通過在上町台地進行的素描和拓印，從觸覺的角度重新審視了這座城市。基於這些研究，我提出了「觸常者的三大原則」，並以此為基礎，設計出不僅為觸常者，也為健全者提供全新空間的提案。

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The more visual advances we make, the more the visually impaired, who are a visual minority, are left behind, and we are living in a society where they can only be helped in facilities. In response to this problem, I consider visually impaired people who live mainly by touch to be “Shokujosha”, and build a city based on touch. At the school for the blind, I conducted research from the perspective of hearing and pressure, and by drawing and frottage on the Uemachi Plateau, I reexamined the city from a tactile perspective. Based on these, I proposed “three points of Shokujosha”, and designed it with the aim of creating a new space not only for Shokujosha but also for able-bodied people.