Listening to students present and artists comments I was struck by how many interesting questions there were about the weight of things, the vibrational effects on the body of the harshness or softness of surfaces, the impact of physical textures, and colour as information. Experiental and sensual (thinking about the pleasurable and the playful.)
Compared to many reviews I have attended, here the relationships between bodies and space seemed to come alive in the most immediate and intimate way which felt directly relevant to interior architecture. Maybe, when you are young/non-disabled you don't tend to notice your body much - you just get on with things living, as Walter Benjamin says, in a state of distraction. One of the things the deaf and disabled artists seem to be offering - perhaps because of their daily and endless experiences of the built world as a series of barriers and obstacles - is a much more aware, close and experiental relationship with material space, objects and the senses.
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