Guanqing Hua, Hongtao Zhou*(CA),Xiaotong Zhang
The essence of art lies in its experiential, embodied, and relational nature. Due to the absence of visual perception, blind individuals face significant accessibility barriers in artistic appreciation, experience, and participation. Therefore, it has become an important topic in the field of design to construct a systematic barrier-free art experience design for this group of people. However, the existing research has largely focused on physical accessibility and orientation assistance technologies, and there are still obvious limitations in tactile experience design in an artistic context. This paper takes the tactile experience in blind art spaces as its research object, integrating phenomenology and new materialism theory to explore the mechanisms by which tactile experience is generated. It is pointed out that the touch experience of the blind not only includes the embodied interaction between the body and the environment, but also is reversely shaped by the physical properties of materials, which together constitute a dynamic and relational experience system. Based on this, this paper puts forward the tactile experience design principle of relational ontology, which guides researchers and practitioners to a more effective design path in a systematic way.
Keywords: art spaces, tactile interaction, experiential design, relational ontology, blind people