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Title: | Olfabet, The world at your fingertips: tools for the blind education | Contributors/Performers: | DE CUPERE, Peter Devos, Piet In den Kleef, Tonia |
Issue Date: | 2021 | Abstract: | Aids developed by Spermalie for education of the blind The Spermalie Institute is a household name in Bruges. Founded in 1836 by Canon Charles-Louis Carton, it played an important role in the development of education for blind and visually challenged children, also at an international level. The institute's collection of teaching aids for children with a visual limitation has been preserved. Amongst other things, it consists of tools and instruments to help with reading, writing and arithmetic, as well as objects used during lessons in geography and handicraft. All these resources gave the pupils an opportunity to lead a richer, fuller and more independent life. At the request of De Kade vzw and Erfgoedcel Brugge (Bruges Heritage Cell), curators and experience experts Piet Devos and Tonia In den Kleef have used a selection of the artefacts from this remarkable collection to create an exhibition in the Arentshuis. Various 'ambassadors' (former pupils and teachers) share their experiences of the institute via a series of audio messages, explaining what education has meant for them in their lives. Artist Peter de Cupere sought and found inspiration in the search to develop a form of script for the blind and on this basis has developed, in collaboration with a number of visually impaired helpers, an olfactory alphabet. This is a presentation that offers something for everyone and will appeal both to the imagination and to all your different senses. It is complemented by a series of lectures, guided tours and a film screening. | Keywords: | olfabet;Peter de Cupere;Olfactory Art;Blind people;visual impaired;braille;helping tools;olfactory language;olfactory design;olfactory exhibition;Bruges;Education of the blind;Scent design;Olfalanguage;Olfactory tools;learning tools;sense of smell;scent art | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/39788 | Link to publication/dataset: | https://www.museabrugge.be/en/calendar/exhibitions/de-wereld-binnen-handbereik https://www.museabrugge.be/volumes/general/Persdossier_WBH_EN_web.pdf |
Discipline: | beeldende kunsten | Research Context: | The Olfabet concept, design and realization is done by olfactory artist dr. Peter de Cupere who’s doing research at the PXL MAD Research group Manufracture in Hasselt, Belgium in how to use smell in combination with 3D printing and scented polymers. This is the first exhibition in which the artist presented the Olfabet. | Related Info: | Stad Brugge Olfabet Living with Scents, Museum of Craft and Design, curated by Clara Muller and Elisabetta Pisu, San Francisco, US, 11.02 – 5.05.2022 |
Category: | AOR | Type: | Artistic/designerly creation |
Appears in Collections: | Artistic/designerly creations |
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