Client: Dialogue Social Enterprise
Location : International outreach
Date: Since 2002
Our role: Development of the exhibition through educational programmes, pre- and post-exhibition activities, materials for Dialogue in the Dark franchisees and impact measurement.
Area: Varies from 250 to 800 sqm
Format: Permanent and temporary exhibitions
(c) Copyright: Dialoghaus, Dialogue Social Entreprise
The concept of Dialogue in the Dark is simple: Visitors are led in groups by blind guides through specially constructed dark rooms where scent, sound, wind, temperature, and texture convey the characteristics of daily environments—a park, a city, a boat cruise, or a bar. Daily routines become a new experience.
A reversal of roles is created: people who can see are taken out of their familiar environments. Blind people provide them with security and a sense of orientation by transmitting a world without pictures. The tour lasts 60 minutes, but the experience can last a lifetime.
Andreas Heinecke created Dialogue in the Dark. Since its opening in 1988, it has been presented worldwide in 48 countries and 180 cities. Over 10 million visitors worldwide have experienced it, and thousands of blind guides and trainers have found employment through it.
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