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Visually Impaired Persons and Social Encounters in Central Melbourne

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  • Shirin Pourafkari

    (Department of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Australia)

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Urban spaces are areas where routes, activities, and people, including visually impaired persons (VIPs), intersect. Most urban research on VIPs focuses on wayfinding. However, the experience of urban spaces is not limited to utilitarian functions and also includes people’s lived experiences and random social encounters. To understand how a broader range of activities, experiences, and encounters may be better enabled, VIPs have participated in multi-method research including interviews, word games, walking interviews, and diary recordings in central Melbourne. Results not only indicate a broad range of unmediated conflicts between VIPs’ mobility needs and key aspects of intense street life but also reveal opportunities that are potentially hidden in random encounters in public spaces.

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  • Shirin Pourafkari, 2023. "Visually Impaired Persons and Social Encounters in Central Melbourne," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(4), pages 99-106.
    • Handle: RePEc:cog:urbpla:v:8:y:2023:i:4:p:99-106
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    1. Mervyn Horgan & Saara Liinamaa, 2023. "Entanglements of Improvisation, Conviviality, and Conflict in Everyday Encounters in Public Space," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(4), pages 1-5.

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