From gaze to tactile gaze
Among the different Sensory Itineraries we propose, undoubtedly theLandscape Itinerary represents the most demanding challenge.
It is in fact easier, for example, to communicate inclusively a Monumental or Museum Itinerary, while Landscape, because of its breadth and depth, its complexity due to different morphological characters, remains the most challenging topic to simplify even in a tactile way without distorting its features or oversimplifying its descriptions, thus making it uninspiring for the viewer: we have already addressed this challenge in our Tactile Panel Tactile Landscape.
In proposing an Open Air Route, characterized by landscape views and probably also by elevation differences, we will then systematize our different Accessible Solutions, composing sustainable types of Microarchitectures (as they are powered by photovoltaic and modular panels) such as the Integrated Landscape or the Tactile Totems, to be considered as junction points of the route, with the Tactile Realizations (Tables and Panels).
Definitely microarchitecture Integrated Landscape will be able to welcome visitors by offering them the possibility of recharging bicycles and presenting through Tactile Panels the Itinerary in its articulation, while one or more Tactile Totems will ensure information and resting points, as well as charging for devices.These facilities will be united by the common thread of technologies such as Beacons or NFC, which will provide useful information about the services and potential of the place, encouraging the acquisition of content through graphics and texts that are clear, brief and explorable by all.
One of the main goals of a Landscape Itinerary, even considering traveling significant distances, is to put the visitor at ease, facilitating the visiting experience also through the services that Microarchitectures offer, such as resting on seats or recharging devices.
Feeling welcomed and facilitated will surely promote the process of enrichment of cultural values and enjoyment and interest in visiting.
The Landscape Routes are routes that are developed exclusively or predominantly outdoors at sites such as archaeological parks and botanical parks.
They are at a time in history when the use of trees in urban situations is aimed not only at creating beautiful and recreational environments, but also at developing functions such as climate mitigation, the reduction of pollution and CO2 in particular, the development of biodiversity: communicate, within an Itinerary within a newly planted urban park, the characteristics of the plant essences through visuo-tactile botanical sheets and presenting the green project by explaining its relative intentions is therefore of paramount importance and is a gesture of civility and civic education.
Let us also recall that according to Peter Calthorpe in the first of the seven Principles for Building Better Cities(Preserve natural ecologies, agrarian landscapes and cultural heritage sites) green is an investment with respect to the burdensome costs of physical and mental illness. Greener habitable places prevent the risk of solastalgia, that is, the psychological distress that results from the loss or progressive process of degradation of the environment in which a person lives or with which he or she identifies.
Many times the Landscape Routes go through places characterized by views e views, such as: protected areas, riverbanks e lake rings, trekking sites, resorts and tourist resorts.
Combined solutions can be adopted for a path of accessibility and inclusiveness “for All” to transform a landscape site into an experience free of physical and sensory barriers, accessible to all, unique and engaging.
This Landscape Itinerary, starting from the UN Convention of 2006 on the rights of persons with disabilities, puts in place a concrete strategy to facilitate conditions of accessibility e knowledge of all possible users.
Here visual stimuli are integrated with those derived from tactile perception, and further enriched by auditory stimuli: this results in amultisensory experience.
We believe that no citizen should be denied the joy of enjoying such an engaging and enriching experience as understanding a landscape.
