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Visually Impaired Sightseeing In Town
Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The international seminar "VISIT: Visually Impaired Sightseeing In Town" will be held in Italy, between 10th and 18th October of 2014. 24 sighted and visually impaired young volunteers from Cyprus, Germany, Georgia, Poland, United Kingdom and Italy will gather together for nine days in the beautiful Bologna. They will learn and experience innovative cultural itineraries created for visually impaired people. The TC aims at going beyond the categories of ability and disability. Visually impaired participants will be leader in discovering local art and culture. The whole group will experience and share creativity and leisure. During the Training Course specific metodologies and practices of social inclusion will be shared and created. There will be the chance for an innovative exploration of Bologna through its smells, sounds, materials. We will discover together its city centre, museums, churches and squares during "multisensorial explorations" created on the specific needs of visually impaired people using various typhlo-pedagogical aids (for instance tactile maps, 3D models and Braille materials). We will visit the Museum of Italian Resistance Movement and Botanical Garden to learn how to create cultural and naturalistic itineraries in order to make them appropriate for visually impaired people. We will visit the "Church of Art", a sculpture laboratory leaded by the famous blind artist Felice Tagliaferri where we will experiment a non visual approach to art. Every day we will have the space to learn, discuss, debate, share and develop new ideas to share in the field of creativity and visual impairments. The whole experience will be leaded in a playful and recreational way and every activities will be complete suitable for every attendee! La Girobussola association, the Promoter, expects to: - promote visually impaired people's mobility and inclusion; - facilite socialization and sharing between blind and sighted people during the participation in artistic labs and accessible turistic routes; - support a new way to think about visual impairment, stressing blind people's needs but, mostly, underrated potentialities; - spread concrete and repeatable social inclusion techniques, according to the European integration's spirit; - procure technical knowledge linked to the new tools which are essential supports for people with disability; - share all the results, according to open data and accessibility principles.
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