The using of urban park as perceived by visually impaired

Duygu Özgür; Hayriye Esbah Tuncay

doi:10.5505/itujfa.2021.69376

The Roles of Urban Park’s Elements in Creating Beautiful Place for The Visually Impaired

Proceedings Article ◽

10.38027/iccaua2021180n5 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Achmad Hery Fuad ◽

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Diva Annisa Az zahra ◽

Keyword(s):

Visual Impairment ◽

Urban Space ◽

Visually Impaired ◽

Urban Park ◽

General Notion ◽

Strong Feeling

This paper is an attempt to reveal the setting of a beautiful park according to people with visual impairment. It contributes to the practice of architecture that is enjoyable to live by all members of society, including the visually impaired. A general notion of beauty from Kant (2000) and Dutton (2009), along with the notion of a multisensory architecture from Pallasmaa (2012) are used as an approach to understanding these phenomena. The research was conducted by observing, recording, and interviewing a group of visually impaired in relation to their activity and how they inhabit the space of an urban park. The finding shows that the sound of the fountain, the smell of the park, and the cool atmosphere are the combinations of elements necessary to create a strong feeling of beauty within urban space that is projected by the visually impaired.

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Recalling the sonic perception of visually impaired people of Surabaya’s urban parks

MATEC Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/matecconf/201928002007 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 280 ◽

pp. 02007 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Christina E. Mediastika ◽

Anugrah S. Sudarsono ◽

Luciana Kristanto ◽

Gunawan Tanuwidjaja ◽

Rony G. Sunaryo ◽

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Keyword(s):

Developing Country ◽

Questionnaire Survey ◽

Visually Impaired ◽

Urban Parks ◽

Urban Park ◽

Visually Impaired People ◽

Impaired People ◽

Participant Perception ◽

Sonic Environment

Urban parks in a developing country hardly accommodatepeople with disability. The objective of this study is to investigate thepossibility of improving urban parks using the perception of visuallyimpaired people of urban parks’ sonic environment. This study wasconducted off-site the urban park using a questionnaire survey with twogroups of participants: sighted people (35 participants) and visuallyimpaired people (35 participants). The analysis was conducted usingsemantic analysis of the word used for explaining the sonic environment. This study shows that the visually impaired participants explained thesonic environment with more terminologies (56 terminologies for visuallyimpaired participants and 32 terminologies for sighted participants). Itindicates the engagement with the sonic environment is higher for thevisually impaired participants compared to the sighted participants. Ingeneral, the visually impaired participant perception of urban parksrepresents a similar terminology, but with more perception compared to thesighted participants, i.e., safety, directivity, and space. The later stage is touse the on-site method to validate and enrich this finding to arrive at thedesign proposition for the improvement of urban parks.

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Articulatory Intervention for the Visually Impaired

Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools ◽

10.1044/0161-1461.1003.139 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 139-144

Author(s):

Cheri L. Florance ◽

Judith O’Keefe

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

High School Students ◽

Behavior Change ◽

Visually Impaired ◽

School Students ◽

Handicapped Children ◽

Paired Stimuli ◽

Visually Handicapped ◽

Parent Program

A modification of the Paired-Stimuli Parent Program (Florance, 1977) was adapted for the treatment of articulatory errors of visually handicapped children. Blind high school students served as clinical aides. A discussion of treatment methodology, and the results of administrating the program to 32 children, including a two-year follow-up evaluation to measure permanence of behavior change, is presented.

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