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Participants are split into pairs, one member of each pair is given a blind fold.
Using a light touch and simple spoken communications the participant with sight guides their partner into and thorough a new location they have no visual reference for - e.g. a car park round the corner to the back of a block of flats. encouraging the blindfolded participant to explore the new environment through touch.
After about 30 the participants swap roles and move to a new location.
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Touch Walk, Participation, Edinburgh, Nov 2021
On our walk away from the environment, feeding back to each other we reflected upon how, when the blindfolds were removed, we felt as though the spaces we had been investigating through touch were different places when we could see them. We talked about the difference between moving and standing still, when we were blindfolded and moving it was as if moving through an empty abyss, but when we could touch something, we had context, but only very little, we couldn't tell how much context, where it ended. Most of us reflected upon how soft everything was, we had expected things to be rough and unconfutable. We also noticed that our perception of sound was altered, and this became a large part of the experience, it wasn't just about touch.