or
how good it feels to be here the truth
I’m going to confess that I had some
nerves and fear
before entering but always wanted
be here I will share with you
reasons why I get involved in the
field of activism and even more of the
visual disabilities as a child
maybe like many of you I dreamed about
change the world
I think that today I am aware that the
world changes every day but also
I still believe that it is us who
we give direction to that change that’s my
reason to fight against injustice
to fight against inequality to
fight against violence and so too
It is very motivation to promote
rights of those who have been violated
and above all excluded
so he also takes photos senses photos
the senses of ecuador is an initiative
which promotes social participation and
the inclusion of people with
visual impairment in the equator
we have as axiological foundation the
social alterity that means otherness
social many times it takes
put ourselves in the place of the other not only
to understand but also to
value and we have as a foundation
methodological volunteering is our
motor believing that we can change the
things and at the same time
we have as an inclusive tool the
multisensory photography that in
reality is a challenge not only for those who
we teach a challenge for those who
they learn but for society because they
shows a different way of feeling and
to live
I think one of the things more
important that I would like to share
with you there are three my learnings from
from an idea the photography
multisensory as a tool
emancipator of visual disability
beyond being a creative idea has
It has also been a very
significant not only because it has
transformed the lives of many people
but also because it has broken or has been
break mental schemes and I would like to
this time share some of
them my first learning tour in
around the visual disability the
visual impairment that many times is
understood or has been attributed to the
inferiority to the abnormality to the
disease and the difference
jose and zara mango saramago said in his
essay on blindness I think we do not
we are blind but I think we are
blind blind people who see and blind
watching do not see
unfortunately we may have been educated
to see the difference as inferior
an example of this is how we see
our original cultures we can
be Afro indigenous and many of the
sometimes it is used with up as a
insult happens the same with the
generic sex diversities are
considered different but wrong
it does not contradict diversities
functional factors are disability or
disabilities are seen as
different but unable now
imagine in a society where
governs content and information
visual would seem to be an impossible challenge
create images without seeing stereotypes and
prejudices have led us to believe that
people with visual disabilities are not
able to perceive and much less of
understand the world in its entirety by
what is impossible and we become
in a disabling society or
disabling by believing that people
with disability or functional diversity
visual will not be able to create or build
images
and I would like to break those
stereotypes those imaginary about the
visual disability
I would like to invite all of you to
close your eyes
let’s close our eyes and breathe
deeply
this alloy exercise
I would like you to transport us
to our best memories
maybe that place we visited
previously
because those beings that we have
united
and I also to beings like those who
we want
have the ability to fly
to the left
at 100 meters turn right
300 meters turn left and enter
to the roundabout
[Music]
some also remember the best
moments of our selection will open the
classification
cristian in rival field let’s go in color
because we have everything
[Music]
while we listen to this exercise of or
I ate it
our sensoriality allows us to create
mental images
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
it turns out that the mental images in
reality are a construction of their own
what we perceive about a
specific reality we can go back to
open the eyes
then it is proven not only
what can you do
the mental images can be
build without seeing
but you will say it only takes
remember and what happens with the people that
they have never seen anything and they do not see anything
actually we can also build and
I would invite you to imagine a
home
the common denominator would lead us to
imagine or build in our mind
four walls with a roof but many
of our students and participants have
seen a house on a stone because
other beings, perhaps more tiny, live
that we but that have not stopped
be more important
have also seen a house have created and
have had the opportunity to break
these mental barriers in a tree
and they have also taught us that there are others
beings that live
and when these beings are invisible
actually
it is difficult to understand or rather it is more
easy to understand because it does not exist
rights not only human but also
with such good
but in the end I think the conclusion of
all this is that each one lives and so
how he lives he feels thinks and does things
in a different way pitifully
socially we are afraid of that
difference and diversity is still
a raw potential for our
society a raw potential that has
been wasted and that we have not
found equality
my second learning revolves around
the proposal
multisensory photography and that part
from the analysis of my own self
when we were children we were not afraid to
feeling beyond the visible is more
we are always going to want to look to touch smell
taste and listen attentively every
detail besides looking at it too but
as the years pass
we are convinced that it is enough to see
to believe and many books say that what
essential can can be converted into
invisible
multisensory photography itself
promotes different ways of feeling and
to live is an opportunity to a new
life experience but so too is
It becomes a means of expression
I remember some memory some
some anecdotes during the workshops
the first photography workshops
multisensory participants
arrived between with nervous doubts and a
emotion that was transcribed in some
questions
questions such as if it is a joke is
a joke in bad taste to say that they
they were going to learn to take photographs already
the time they were going to be able to feel them
after they are printed on
high relief and with braille system
in addition to an experimental technique of
embossed
we told him to make a mockery
that we really wanted to build
something new that was his right and that he did not
had nothing to do with a good one
will need to stop seeing the
people with disabilities as objects
of pity or recipients of charity
it is necessary to specify the disability
visual as subjects of rights
these are really the diversities
functional
I remember daniela well a young
Quite adolescent who had imagined
amazing cameras
maybe special cameras with some
superpowers for quotes
replace certain capabilities
when we tell you that the
cameras were the ones that commonly
we use from cell phones cameras
compact or reflex cameras that we
he asked what was going to change because he
I felt different because the only thing
we change are the methodologies the
teaching and learning methodologies
from instead of saying move over there
or move around here
we learn to behave in the
that we could all understand how
locate ourselves from the directionality
clockwise details so
simple that can be converted into the
best reason not to have obstacles not
only physical but also eliminate
mental obstacles
Besides that
we told daniela that no
we would use any tools
individuals in addition to a camera
she’s surprised she was quite scared and
I did not want to go back I did not want to go back
workshop and I did not even want to start
take photos
when we asked him the reason, I think
the reason we were ourselves
his family had never given him the
opportunity to experience told us
than family reunions when
they asked who could or wanted to take
a photograph could all be taken
in account less of it the only reason
that he saw
then he dared
and I think now he dreams of recording videos
I still do not know how we’re going to do it
but if I think it’s possible
then you need to break these
stereotypes prejudices and stigmas that
configure us in a way of thinking and
to see the other who they really are
the others are all those who being
different do not cease to be equal to
ourselves
pitifully they are or below us
or have been totally removed
then multisensory photography
it helps us rather is a proposal to
break the schemes I’m going to invite you
again to close three eyes
seconds and in those three seconds we’re going to
imagine a triangle
we open our eyes and they will lift the
hand people whose triangle
pointed up
ok 90% 5% if it’s not the time
raise your hand to people whose
triangle pointed to any of the
three other sides remaining
then I want to talk to you does
missing those preconceived forms
to think or imagine things if
we continue to imagine that the disability
is not able to actually we are going to
it is very difficult to imagine a
person with visual disability taking
Photographs
you need to see that that triangle can
turn to either side
and it does not matter that point above or at
other extremes
but just as it points up and what
visualize you need to visualize the
other sides
those diversities that are present
these other ways of thinking and conceiving
the world
my last learning that further beyond
from being a single experience I think he
has translated into one in one thought
I am sure that creativity makes us
free
multisensory photography is just one
sample of that
as well as in multisensory photography
exist and you will share many
other activities that can help us
to emancipate
to talk about emancipating is to talk about
liberties and at the same time talk about
liberties is to talk about rights
conditions that guarantee dignity
human rights and that promote the inclusion of
who have been socially violated
and even oppressed but even more so in the
field of disabilities or the
functional diversity requires a
paradigm shift is a change
of lenses to stop seeing the
visual impairment and disabilities
in general as a mere condition of being and
understand it from its context so that
it would be useful to understand a disability
from its context to make visible the
barriers that exist whether they are physical in
the environment or mental in each of
US
barriers present in the relationship of
individual as a subject of rights with his
environment is to say everything that surrounds them
you can not talk about freedom without living
really the sense of otherness
social sociality invites us to
put ourselves in the place of the other and to
this does not mean closing your eyes or leaving
to see for a moment what surrounds us
but rather to understand the other as a
the same for the mere human condition
but besides that, we value our
differences to be fair in
As for our needs then
it’s not that the photograph belongs to us
who we see but who belongs to us
all we are capable of creating and
to think differently
finally I want to thank each
one of you and leave a message
I think we need to dare to feel
beyond the visible
and that means touching not only seeing and that
explains involves listening and looking
but beyond that I think it’s
society’s responsibility to stop
incapacitate disabilities and more
still make the change that we want to see in
the world thank you
[Applause]
how good it feels to be here the truth
I’m going to confess that I had some
nerves and fear
before entering but always wanted
be here I will share with you
reasons why I get involved in the
field of activism and even more of the
visual disabilities as a child
maybe like many of you I dreamed about
change the world
I think that today I am aware that the
world changes every day but also
I still believe that it is us who
we give direction to that change that’s my
reason to fight against injustice
to fight against inequality to
fight against violence and so too
It is very motivation to promote
rights of those who have been violated
and above all excluded
so he also takes photos senses photos
the senses of ecuador is an initiative
which promotes social participation and
the inclusion of people with
visual impairment in the equator
we have as axiological foundation the
social alterity that means otherness
social many times it takes
put ourselves in the place of the other not only
to understand but also to
value and we have as a foundation
methodological volunteering is our
motor believing that we can change the
things and at the same time
we have as an inclusive tool the
multisensory photography that in
reality is a challenge not only for those who
we teach a challenge for those who
they learn but for society because they
shows a different way of feeling and
to live
I think one of the things more
important that I would like to share
with you there are three my learnings from
from an idea the photography
multisensory as a tool
emancipator of visual disability
beyond being a creative idea has
It has also been a very
significant not only because it has
transformed the lives of many people
but also because it has broken or has been
break mental schemes and I would like to
this time share some of
them my first learning tour in
around the visual disability the
visual impairment that many times is
understood or has been attributed to the
inferiority to the abnormality to the
disease and the difference
jose and zara mango saramago said in his
essay on blindness I think we do not
we are blind but I think we are
blind blind people who see and blind
watching do not see
unfortunately we may have been educated
to see the difference as inferior
an example of this is how we see
our original cultures we can
be Afro indigenous and many of the
sometimes it is used with up as a
insult happens the same with the
generic sex diversities are
considered different but wrong
it does not contradict diversities
functional factors are disability or
disabilities are seen as
different but unable now
imagine in a society where
governs content and information
visual would seem to be an impossible challenge
create images without seeing stereotypes and
prejudices have led us to believe that
people with visual disabilities are not
able to perceive and much less of
understand the world in its entirety by
what is impossible and we become
in a disabling society or
disabling by believing that people
with disability or functional diversity
visual will not be able to create or build
images
and I would like to break those
stereotypes those imaginary about the
visual disability
I would like to invite all of you to
close your eyes
let’s close our eyes and breathe
deeply
this alloy exercise
I would like you to transport us
to our best memories
maybe that place we visited
previously
because those beings that we have
united
and I also to beings like those who
we want
have the ability to fly
to the left
at 100 meters turn right
300 meters turn left and enter
to the roundabout
[Music]
some also remember the best
moments of our selection will open the
classification
cristian in rival field let’s go in color
because we have everything
[Music]
while we listen to this exercise of or
I ate it
our sensoriality allows us to create
mental images
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
it turns out that the mental images in
reality are a construction of their own
what we perceive about a
specific reality we can go back to
open the eyes
then it is proven not only
what can you do
the mental images can be
build without seeing
but you will say it only takes
remember and what happens with the people that
they have never seen anything and they do not see anything
actually we can also build and
I would invite you to imagine a
home
the common denominator would lead us to
imagine or build in our mind
four walls with a roof but many
of our students and participants have
seen a house on a stone because
other beings, perhaps more tiny, live
that we but that have not stopped
be more important
have also seen a house have created and
have had the opportunity to break
these mental barriers in a tree
and they have also taught us that there are others
beings that live
and when these beings are invisible
actually
it is difficult to understand or rather it is more
easy to understand because it does not exist
rights not only human but also
with such good
but in the end I think the conclusion of
all this is that each one lives and so
how he lives he feels thinks and does things
in a different way pitifully
socially we are afraid of that
difference and diversity is still
a raw potential for our
society a raw potential that has
been wasted and that we have not
found equality
my second learning revolves around
the proposal
multisensory photography and that part
from the analysis of my own self
when we were children we were not afraid to
feeling beyond the visible is more
we are always going to want to look to touch smell
taste and listen attentively every
detail besides looking at it too but
as the years pass
we are convinced that it is enough to see
to believe and many books say that what
essential can can be converted into
invisible
multisensory photography itself
promotes different ways of feeling and
to live is an opportunity to a new
life experience but so too is
It becomes a means of expression
I remember some memory some
some anecdotes during the workshops
the first photography workshops
multisensory participants
arrived between with nervous doubts and a
emotion that was transcribed in some
questions
questions such as if it is a joke is
a joke in bad taste to say that they
they were going to learn to take photographs already
the time they were going to be able to feel them
after they are printed on
high relief and with braille system
in addition to an experimental technique of
embossed
we told him to make a mockery
that we really wanted to build
something new that was his right and that he did not
had nothing to do with a good one
will need to stop seeing the
people with disabilities as objects
of pity or recipients of charity
it is necessary to specify the disability
visual as subjects of rights
these are really the diversities
functional
I remember daniela well a young
Quite adolescent who had imagined
amazing cameras
maybe special cameras with some
superpowers for quotes
replace certain capabilities
when we tell you that the
cameras were the ones that commonly
we use from cell phones cameras
compact or reflex cameras that we
he asked what was going to change because he
I felt different because the only thing
we change are the methodologies the
teaching and learning methodologies
from instead of saying move over there
or move around here
we learn to behave in the
that we could all understand how
locate ourselves from the directionality
clockwise details so
simple that can be converted into the
best reason not to have obstacles not
only physical but also eliminate
mental obstacles
Besides that
we told daniela that no
we would use any tools
individuals in addition to a camera
she’s surprised she was quite scared and
I did not want to go back I did not want to go back
workshop and I did not even want to start
take photos
when we asked him the reason, I think
the reason we were ourselves
his family had never given him the
opportunity to experience told us
than family reunions when
they asked who could or wanted to take
a photograph could all be taken
in account less of it the only reason
that he saw
then he dared
and I think now he dreams of recording videos
I still do not know how we’re going to do it
but if I think it’s possible
then you need to break these
stereotypes prejudices and stigmas that
configure us in a way of thinking and
to see the other who they really are
the others are all those who being
different do not cease to be equal to
ourselves
pitifully they are or below us
or have been totally removed
then multisensory photography
it helps us rather is a proposal to
break the schemes I’m going to invite you
again to close three eyes
seconds and in those three seconds we’re going to
imagine a triangle
we open our eyes and they will lift the
hand people whose triangle
pointed up
ok 90% 5% if it’s not the time
raise your hand to people whose
triangle pointed to any of the
three other sides remaining
then I want to talk to you does
missing those preconceived forms
to think or imagine things if
we continue to imagine that the disability
is not able to actually we are going to
it is very difficult to imagine a
person with visual disability taking
Photographs
you need to see that that triangle can
turn to either side
and it does not matter that point above or at
other extremes
but just as it points up and what
visualize you need to visualize the
other sides
those diversities that are present
these other ways of thinking and conceiving
the world
my last learning that further beyond
from being a single experience I think he
has translated into one in one thought
I am sure that creativity makes us
free
multisensory photography is just one
sample of that
as well as in multisensory photography
exist and you will share many
other activities that can help us
to emancipate
to talk about emancipating is to talk about
liberties and at the same time talk about
liberties is to talk about rights
conditions that guarantee dignity
human rights and that promote the inclusion of
who have been socially violated
and even oppressed but even more so in the
field of disabilities or the
functional diversity requires a
paradigm shift is a change
of lenses to stop seeing the
visual impairment and disabilities
in general as a mere condition of being and
understand it from its context so that
it would be useful to understand a disability
from its context to make visible the
barriers that exist whether they are physical in
the environment or mental in each of
US
barriers present in the relationship of
individual as a subject of rights with his
environment is to say everything that surrounds them
you can not talk about freedom without living
really the sense of otherness
social sociality invites us to
put ourselves in the place of the other and to
this does not mean closing your eyes or leaving
to see for a moment what surrounds us
but rather to understand the other as a
the same for the mere human condition
but besides that, we value our
differences to be fair in
As for our needs then
it’s not that the photograph belongs to us
who we see but who belongs to us
all we are capable of creating and
to think differently
finally I want to thank each
one of you and leave a message
I think we need to dare to feel
beyond the visible
and that means touching not only seeing and that
explains involves listening and looking
but beyond that I think it’s
society’s responsibility to stop
incapacitate disabilities and more
still make the change that we want to see in
the world thank you
[Applause]
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