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David Turton
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Haptic heuristics, multisensory multitudes, hab conflab, texture texxture text
Tragic scenes in Oxfam today. The trend for oversized soft toys appears to have ended. Spare a thought.
June 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Longest day, hottest day—potato flower
Tuber, rhizome, solar power
June 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Look closely—the conifers are flowering!
March 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Exploring bus travel skills for children with vision impairments today, with help from the wonderful Marvin and Loretta at Stagecoach. Also learned that new buses don’t need mirrors!
March 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Cultures of Surveillance (at Marylebone this morning)
January 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
A promising start…
December 23, 2024 at 8:17 AM
After the snow, the lichen!
November 24, 2024 at 1:56 PM
The accessibility of Birmingham’s University train station caught my eye (and feet) when passing through recently. Impressive use of tactiles for wayfinding, amongst other things.
November 18, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Habilitation students at UCL have been exploring ways of incorporating tactile maps into their teaching this week
November 17, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Ladybirds!
April 8, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Don’t be distracted by daffodils—the heather is out!
February 23, 2024 at 2:28 PM
A tiny wilderness
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February 16, 2024 at 11:39 AM
February 11, 2024 at 8:28 PM
February 3, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Objects of Reference can serve as an effective communication strategy if they’re always available and if their meaning is understood by everyone concerned. In this case, Lola brings her orange ball, which is understood as a request for Dreamies.
January 24, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Fabulous support from the Wellcome Collection this week during a visit to explore the (superb) accessibility of their exhibitions. All angles and perspectives considered!
January 21, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Many of these stormy January days have a silver (and pink and orange) lining, if you’re up in time to see it
January 21, 2024 at 1:00 PM
The bats are also worth a look! Excellent museum, currently closed, but reopening sometime in February.
January 3, 2024 at 9:25 AM
No one moment of renewal, but a process of exfoliation, exposing vulnerability and gradually letting go of the crusted remnants of last year’s protective layer
January 1, 2024 at 2:55 PM
John Lee Clark on your alt text:
“Get to the point, already! […] during one of my seminars, a participant made us all laugh by doing a parody: ‘Mary is wearing a green, blue, and red striped shirt; every forth stripe also has a purple dot the size of a pea in it, and there are forty-seven […etc.]’”
December 19, 2023 at 5:49 PM
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December 17, 2023 at 5:55 PM
As each group boarded the craft, the light from a corresponding module blazed out…
December 12, 2023 at 6:25 PM
Think it must be some kind of local in joke—this was just around the corner from that crossing
December 11, 2023 at 2:03 PM
Cleethorpes in December—bracing sea breeze, wheeling gulls, great chips—a fantasy world of sorts.
December 7, 2023 at 7:34 PM
And how about the side-eye!
December 5, 2023 at 8:53 PM