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				-Interviews -Audio Descriptions -Blind Sat. Nav -Sketchbooks
		Blind Sat. Nav. What happens when we surrender the need to think? We are part of a generation who are becoming brain dead. We have so many gadgets that tell us what to do by feeding us instructions. Life is difficult when you are blind, everyday life is a stuggle. Especially memorising routes. 50 paces here, 150 paces there. So how can I help the visually impared? We have satellite navigation systems to stop us having to think about routes anymore, so why can't it be the same for the visually impared? Inspired by Janet Cardiff's 'The Missing Voice' I wanted to create a sat. nav for the blind. To test the idea I wanted to ask myself what would it be like if I were blind? Question myself constantly, would I have a day to day routine? What journeys would I need memorising? How many paces would I need to count for each new route? If I had a blind sat. nav I would surrender the need to think. I would have to trust a computer. It would think so I wouldn't have to. I want to communicate to the viewer how a computer can feed a blind person information in the same way that a sat nav feeds a driver. My interview with Janet made me realise she is methodical with everything she does. The concept could be used for poeple just turned blind and who are having difficulties adjusting to not being able to see and interact with people anymore. It would ease the confidence. Instead of yards in a car, I created a system using paces. Imagining myself blind, I counted how many paces, turnings, and how far I traveled on my way to uni. To alert the user of approaching cars or trains I recording warning systems used on current sat nav systems, where three beeps act as an audible signal, similar to a pedestrian crossing. To illustrate the sound I chose to use satellite images of the journey being taken, from door to door. This captures the walk to the train station, the train journey and the walk from the station to uni. Home to Station 00.02.07 Station to Station 00.04.27 Station to Uni 00.03.33
			-Interviews -Audio Descriptions -Blind Sat. Nav -Sketchbooks