Why do we tune into the sounds of nature and how do we relate to the origin of those sounds? Could the 'sonic charisma' of a landscape have something to do with it?
Amongst other nature-based activities, we’d like to learn more about people’s experiences of gardening with a visual impairment, and recently met up with an exciting charity that uses gardens as therapeutic environments.
I recently spent some time with the New Zealand Blind Foundation to get to grips with how groups in other parts of the world are enabling interactions with nature.
Sighted people can often feel unsure about approaching someone with a visual impairment. Here are some tips I picked up at a recent training course with Guide Dogs UK.
There’s far more to the natural environment than meets the eye and a new initiative called 'Silent Spaces' is offering people the chance to delve into this unseen world.
At the beginning of January this year, Sarah met up with Dr Hannah Macpherson to talk about visually impaired walking groups and some of her research which is relevant to the Sensing Nature project.
How do people with different types of visual impairment interact with natural environments? Sarah talks to Terri and Rod from iSightCornwall about their experiences.
Many people have asked me why I have chosen to focus specifically on vision impairment in this project and I thought I might take the opportunity here to write a little more about the initial source of inspiration for it all.