Friday, November 9, 2012 hours 17:45
The project T-VedO - Strategies for computer reconstruction of tactile representations starting from paintings

Università degli Studi di Firenze Friday November 9, from 5:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m - Saletta Rosi
Cavaniglia Pavilion, Fortezza da Basso, Florence

The raising awareness of the issue of tactility linked to its aesthetic values and seen as an educational experience for the blind, has fairly recent origins. Whilst early as the eighties the national legislation affirmed the need of removal the architectural barriers in public buildings, only very recently has been taken into account the importance of the ”sensory barrier” seen as a failure by the people who need of special care not only to move independently in space, but also to perceive the works more or less liberating through forms of direct or indirect interaction.
The access to the three-dimensional sculptural representations has been the first degree of interaction for the visually impaired in the museum ambient; more recent studies, considered the problems of translation and perception of pictorial representations. However, the lack of an organic coordination of the studies and the projects, in this sector, has determined in the last 15 years the multiplication of heterogeneous and largely disorganized actions for 'tactile language translations of visual images'.
In the presentation the speakers will describe the results of a study conducted within the project T-VedO (three-dimensional reconstruction for Blind of pictorial works of art), co-financed by the Region of Tuscany in the context of the project PAR - 1.1.a.3 FAS) which aims at the definition of the most effective strategy for the translation of tactile pictorial representations in order to ensure a correct perception for the blind.

Speaker:Yary Volpe