Project Description

The project "Borrowed Darkness" creates an immersive sensory experience that builds empathy for blindness while raising awareness about the importance of eye donation. The project allows the visitors to navigate through a dark steel tunnel using touch, sound and intuition, which gives the person an opportunity to experience how a blind person perceives this world. 

For constructing this tunnel, we generated 3 modules, folding steel sheets in origami method. To amplify the experience, we introduced ramp, which will create a sudden uncertainty that blind people faces daily. In the landing of our ramp, we put broken eye glasses, using as a symbol of fractured eye sight, creating sound which will indicate a transition of direction. We used rustic steel for it's natural texture which will guide the visitors. On the elevation we used metal etching to engrave eye test alphabets which will slowly transitioned into braille. This s a message to the passerby and creates curiosity. All this will happen in pure darkness, which will be achieved by black out curtains. When we arrive at the exit, in the curtain there will be a massage cut out of the fabric, "When you leave this darkness, remember- someone else may never. Your eyes can give them light." A QR code will be engraved that will give further information about eye donation.