By offering the public a personal experience they will never forget, Dialogue in the Dark and Dialogue in Silence change the mindset of the broader public regarding disability and diversity and increase their tolerance towards “otherness”.

Dialogue in the Dark

In Dialogue in the Dark visitors are led by blind guides in small groups through a specially constructed and totally darkened exhibition, where sounds, sensations, and textures convey the characteristics of environments such as a park, a city street, or a bar. In the dark, daily routines become new experiences. A reversal of roles is created: sighted people are torn from the familiar, losing the sense they rely on most – their sight. Blind people guide them, providing security and a sense of orientation while transmitting a world without pictures. The blind and partially sighted guides open the visitors’ eyes in the dark to show them that a world without sight is not poorer, just different.

Dialogue in the Dark has been presented in more than 30 countries and over 160 sites throughout Europe, Asia and America since its beginning in 1988. So far, 6 Million visitors have experienced Dialogue in the Dark worldwide, and 6,000 blind employees found a job and empowerment through Dialogue in the Dark.

For further information, please visit the Dialogue in the Dark international web page.

Dialogue in Silence

Dialogue in Silence is an exhibition which invites visitors into a completely different world, a world of silence. Other forms of expression are used here and language must be visible in order to be understood. Deaf persons guide the visitors in small groups through the exhibition which is totally soundproof.

A reversal of roles is created: hearing people are lose their usual routine and must discover their repertoire of non-verbal expression in order to communicate creatively by mime, gesture and body language. Deaf people, who by virtue of their experience with sign language are more competent, support the process and become ambassadors of a world without sound, which is in no way poorer, simply different.

Dialogue in Silence is not an installation that simulates deafness. It is a platform where hearing and non-hearing people meet to overcome the barriers between “us” and “them” and re-define “disability” as “ability” and “otherness” as “likeness”.

For further information, please visit the Dialogue in Silence international web page.

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