Seeing╱Unseeing city：visually impaired people’s movimg experiences of urban space
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010
Author(s)
Sue, Yi-Farn
Abstract
Reading many study of visually impaired people’s physical ability and experience of space, the researcher systematically explains the visually impaired people’s cognitive ability of space, such as: the relationship between direction and position, distance, space, shape, material, climate, light and so on. This thesis is based on the experience of the respondents, showing that each of the respondents choose their own cognitive approach and life style according to uniqueness of their bodies: the state of vision, innate sense of direction, physical exercise capacity, and even personal experience. How the vision changes brings the visually impaired people different geographical and life experiences. In contrast, living space also affects visually impaired people’s perception. Moving from the market side to the road side, the visually impaired people select the most appropriate form of recognition based on the environmental conditions. Therefore, this thesis firstly would like to explain the diversity of the bodies of visually impaired people, showing that visually impaired people is not a vague and homogeneous group. Visually impaired people are not forced to accept these diverse recognition and means of space understanding. Instead, they create the experience of space recognition that mostly suites their physical ability and the environment. The second thing this thesis would like to convey is that space is not simply an externally physical location, but the environment shaped together by the whole society and the inner value of visually impaired individuals. Therefore, the city life of the visually impaired people is of rich energy, but they also feel pain and anxious because of the inconvenience of the external environment. However, each visually impaired person is still able to develop his/her own survival strategy according to his/her physical characteristics. For visually impaired people, the important thing is not sympathy, concern with superiority or doubtful assistance, but the right to choose.
Subjects
visually impaired people
public space
urban
moving experience
disability
Type
thesis
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