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Multi-Sensory Design For People With Visual Impairments, Joshua Levy
Multi-Sensory Design For People With Visual Impairments, Joshua Levy
Architecture Undergraduate Honors Theses
Architectural design commonly focuses on the visual qualities of its manifestation, leaving people with visual impairments aside from its qualitative goals. In order to counteract this phenomenon and appropriately address people with low visual acuity / legal blindness, we must understand the people within this large community as well as current policies focusing on different types of accommodations for spatial practicality. Understanding the people will entail a dive into what a visual impairment is, what it is like, and understanding how people perceive the world as a whole. Then it is necessary to understand current policies that designers have adopted …