Art and Games in Braille

An architect from Mumbai is trying to bridge the gap between cultural art and the differently-abled.

Transcript

00:00🎵🎵🎵

00:18How much is the tea?

00:19One tea please.

00:51Our aim through Access for All is of two things.

01:15One is to give them the experience of what you and me feel, right?

01:19What all other kids feel.

01:21And the second thing is about giving them the right tools to do it.

01:24You can't tell a person, okay, take this and play with this.

01:27You have to change.

01:28You have to design.

01:29You have to ideate.

01:30There has to be deep creative thinking that goes into the fact that how can this game

01:34make an impact in their life, right?

01:37What can they learn even from the simple game of snakes and ladder?

01:39What can they learn from the simple game of X and Zero?

01:53My mother's visual impairment was kept hidden in the family.

01:56Never spoken in our family.

01:57It was seen like a, it was things under the cover.

02:15Started making me more eager and started getting me to think about what all can I do

02:20in our country and how very simply my mother could also be a part of it, like be part of

02:24all our travels and not just sit in one place.

02:36We had our setbacks.

02:38We had different experiences through which we learned that became a textbook of understanding

02:43different things of learning.

02:45How do you talk about a certain artwork to a group with visual impairment?

02:49How do you talk about a certain color to people with colorblindness?

02:53How do you talk about form, textures, making it more relevant to them?

02:57How descriptive you were.

03:23In our team, we have three people, two with visual impairment and one with hearing impairment,

03:33but that they give us their input.

03:43The expertise that we have developed, we can share with them because I feel those economies

03:47also have similar issues like us reaching out to our neighbors, which reaching out to

03:53other countries and be more accessible and put our hands together to make access beyond

03:58borders.