On 6th and 7th June 2005, Hoëlle Corvest, from the "Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie" in Paris and Michel Bris from the CNEFEI have come all the way to Liège (Belgium) to deliver to us a training session on tactile images.
The training is divided up into 3 modules. We could take advantage here of the first one. The following ones will take place later on, I hope ! There were 8 participants, 4 partially sighted and blind ones and 4 sighted ones.
On the first day, the trainers taught us how to look with our hands. We looked at:
I have particularly appreciated the afternoon practical exercices : undertaking the construction with lego pieces of the houses of which we had received the tactile plans.
To end up, we received tactile images with frontal and profile views of human faces and bodies, the attitudes of which we had to represent with three dimensional articulated puppets.
The next day, we discovered Venice and its architecture with the help of a tactile book that was given to us. It gives you an overall view of the city and of its monuments. There is a CD Rom explaining the history of the city together with the book.
Discovering the world in which we live thanks to tactile images is very interesting. I have enjoyed a lot this training session and I am looking forward to getting on with the next levels.
Virginie Collard