Blindness

Hearing everyone's ideas for the project was really interesting; especially hearing how people thought to integrate their own particular skillset into the project.

For my own project, in talking to other designers about ADA requirements for blindness and reading up on it, it was interesting to discover the fact that technically you could not build things that hung from the ceiling at a certain level. In thinking about this, I still would like to make the heighth so that everyone can be impacted by this light. If it were hanging from a higher height, it would not create the same discussion of being fully aware of one's surroundings and the objects and people that inhabit it.

Recently I was walking to the Bart, and ended up walking behind a woman who was blind and used a finder stick to locate her way. The finder stick made me think of it as an appendage or attachment to her daily living, and what ways my design could be altered to factor this aspect into it. It made me think of ways that I could develop my design even more so that it could be initially felt from the ground.