A Different Way of Seeing. Helping You Make Sense of the Overwhelm
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Having visited the District Six Museum and looked of the way the museum collaborates with visitors to give them the best experience, we decided to focus our energy on how to make the storytelling aspect of the museum more inclusive for people who were unable to engage with the physical exhibitions and photographs. To do …
Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji. I took Mom on another adventure recently. This time we went on a street art tour of the place called Salt River. I’ve taken Mom there before, when she wanted to visit the Cape Town Society for the Blind, but we weren’t going there this time. Instead we went …
I’m sure I’m not the only one who grabs for her phone whenever I hear a notification. Or who hunts around to find it when the phone alerts me that I have an incoming call. Or dash into the kitchen to check on supper when I hear the oven buzzer. In all of these cases …
You wouldn’t believe how often people ask me if my blindness has given me extra sensory abilities – whether I can hear, scent, and taste better than a sighted person, and have a more sensitive sense of touch. My honest answer? I don’t think so. I don’t believe my other senses have improved since losing …
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” – the Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost. That may be a strange way to start an article about an experience I had in the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) on my recent …
Cape Town is a beautiful place. Anyone who’s been here will tell you that. And it’s not just visitors who feel that way – as residents we know it, too! But sometimes it’s easy for us to take that beauty for granted since we’re constantly surrounded by it. Unlike Durban (the city I grew up …