The Braille Window Project
… and it could be coming to a window near you soon.
The Braille Window Project (or the BWP for short) is an accessible, community-based art project built on braille, conceived and developed in Australia by Anne Walton and Bruce Maguire. It incorporates writing, video, sound and live performance - the 'act' of reading braille - on a city street-front window whilst the world streams by.
The BWP celebrates braille and braille reading in public. It creates a temporary space where braille readers can interact with passers-by and the history and architecture of the city in new ways. It asks us to think about how we read and how we apprehend the world.
The BWP was first staged at Gallery 4a in Sydney's Chinatown district in January 2007 and is on track for the worldwide bicentennial celebrations of the birth of Louis Braille in 2009.
