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The SHADE project is organising two seminars in September focusing on the relationship between visual impairment, sensory experience and architectural design.

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22 September | 12:30–13:30

Experience of blindness and architectural design
Carlos Mourão
FUNDEC, IST

Room V1.41

24 September | 12:30–13:30

A matter of choice? Signs of change after 20 years of connecting design and human diversity
Ann Heylighen*
Museu DECivil, IST

The seminars are part of the SHADE – Fostering Blind People’s Well Being: Multisensory Sun Shelters in Green and Blue Spaces project, which explores how non-visual experiences can contribute to more inclusive, comfortable and user-oriented architectural design.

*The speaker will join remotely via videoconference.