A Different World of Perception: Multi-sensory landscape for a visually impaired community

Can you imagine losing your sight?

Unfortunately, everyone has a risk to lose their sight.

 Blind Veterans UK is an organisation to help visually impaired people in their rehabilitation. The issue of blindness and visual impairment is important. Because not only is the number of visually impaired people not insignificant but it is expected that the trend for the number of people affected to

Be continually increasing. The biggest problem is that visual impairment can also be connected to mental disorder, mainly depression.  However, a lot of researchers have commented on the therapeutic effects of nature, particularly emphasizing that sensory experience can contribute

to a better mental health. Experiencing sensory natural space and gardening can contribute for visually impaired people to alleviating mental illness and to giving a positive view of nature. In addition, numerous researchers have proved the benefits of exposure to the nature. People can have mental therapy through outdoor adventure, further, positive result that adventure therapy could contribute to psychological resilience and social self- esteem. For these reason, the positive effects through experiencing sensory outdoor space were expected.  Consequently, through designing new outdoor spatial types to provide sensory elements, visually impaired people would have new healthy life.