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In Touch: Can blind people become architects?

09/04/2019

Can blind people become architects?

BBC Radio 4 - In Touch, Can blind people become architects?

A summer school teaching architecture to blind people.

A week-long summer school teaching architecture to blind people. Apple products tell websites people are using screen reading software.

In the latest version of Apple’s software for both iPhones and Macs, a feature has been included that tells websites a screen reader is being used. A screen reader is software that takes information from the screen and turns it in to digital speech or braille. This new feature is turned on by default. While it can be turned off, some blind people argue it shouldn’t be on by default as they don’t want websites or their developers, knowing they are blind. Ben Mustill-Rose is a developer who’s blind working at the BBC. He explains how the feature works and what his, and others’ concerns are. 

Beyond Sight is a project challenging the tendency for architects to prioritise the visual above all else. As part of this, UCL is offering a week-long summer school to visually impaired people interested in becoming architects. The course will cover how design can incorporate other ways of imagining and creating space. 
We speak to Mandy Redvers-Rowe one of the course coordinators and to Carlos Mourao-Pereira a blind architect. 

Presenter: Peter White
Producer: Lee Kumutat

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