Spatial Explorations and Digital Traces: Experiences of Legal Blindness through Filmmaking

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2016
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Abstract
Descriptions of legal blindness, as lived experience—involving continual movement between the world of sightedness and blindness—are largely absent within medical models of disability. In an effort to challenge depictions of blindness as pathology, researchers in this project worked with participants who are legally blind, in a co-designed exploration of built spaces in the city of Edmonton, Canada. In this article we describe a collaborative research method through which participants shared stories while recording their movement through a shopping mall, an art gallery, and a gym. Through this project, participants often took the lead, determining the content and context of urban journeys. Stories and images shared through this collaboration suggest that legal blindness is an alternative way of knowing the world, with unique perceptual experiences, navigational strategies, and complexity that is often unacknowledged within a medically constructed blindness/sightedness binary. In describing the complex relationship between participants, researchers, architecture, and technology we will combine narrative forms of writing with actor-network theory. The sharing of stories, along with lived experiences has led to a project that revolves around ability, as opposed to disability. A link to the film is provided at the end of this article.
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Authors Ruiz, Adolfo;Strickfaden, Megan;
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Year 2016
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Technology (General) Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) geography (general) business social sciences (general) finance urban groups. the city. urban sociology physical geography electronic computers. computer science human ecology. anthropogeography law in general. comparative and uniform law. jurisprudence information theory

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