Tool "Disability awareness: Drawing Blind"

Language: English

Project Featuring This Tool: All Together

Themes:Inclusion and Equality

This exercise was used at the All Together training course to raise awareness of disability. The task focuses on helping a blind person to imagine the things around us.

Time 10 min
Approximate number of participants 2 minimum
Age not relevant
Date published 19 Feb 2010, 08:35

Materials

Paper Pencil A simple picture Blind fold

Setting

A table and quiet setting

Step-by-step instructions

  1. Find a pair of people
  2. One person is blindfolded
  3. The leading person has a picture in their hand and should instruct the person who is blindfolded how to draw it.
  4. When half of the picture is ready, the leading person says what is on the picture.
  5. Finish picture both together

Debriefing

How did it feel to draw without seeing? Did you know what you were drawing? Does this exercise have any relation to real life? How might it help you to help a blind person to ‘see’ what's around them?