A citizen from Saint Petersburg Alexei Orlov who lost the sight several years ago, organized trips with close eyes. The local informational web-portal ‘Gorod+’ reports about that. While walking, the man teaches tourists how to orient on city smells and sounds. The project obtained a name ‘Tangible Petersburg’.
As the organizers of the project told, the purpose of the trips is not only to teach people how to have a good sense of direction without the help of sight, but also to give a possibility to conquer own fears, be alone with own thoughts, and know how to trust others. The route includes walk in the park and the centre of the city, travel using public transport, walking along traffic area, attendance of café, as well as games on the development of tactual sense and olfaction.
Orlov invented the trip programs on his own. He took the basis of pedagogy for blind and visually impaired (tiflopedagogics) and his own experience. ‘I was always dreaming of opening my own project where could teach the sighted how to orient without sight. Because of my trips and trainings people learn to cognize world’, the man told.
Orlov has acquired bachelor and master degrees in Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia achieving the profession of guide. So far, he has completed more than seventy trips. One may order a trip through the official group of the project in VKontakte. The minimal cost of trip is 1.5 thousand rouble, the length is 1.5 hour.
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