Designed for comfort
Based in the Netherlands, the Ocean Cleanup aspires to rid the world's oceans of plastic using trawlers to scoop up the waste like it's done in commercial fishing. Based in the US, Love Has No Labels is a public-engagement project that aims to promote diversity and inclusion across perceived gender, race, sexual orientation and age boundaries.
Hong Kong-based Beyond Vision International's founder and CEO Rico Chan is passionate about enabling the visually impaired to fully experience fine art. In the exhibition's Social segment, he introduces Feeling the Colors, a collection of artistic experiences produced with the company's tactile-audio interactive system (TAIS).
Iconic works by Piet Mondrian, Keith Haring and Henri Matisse are recreated with textured surfaces so that the different colors can be felt. Meanwhile tactile maps allow people to experience Hong Kong landmarks through varying surfaces and soundscapes.
"As much as color brightens up our city, diversity enriches our community," Chan notes. "We believe that the visually impaired can see - just in a different way than the sighted. That is the foundation for our development of TAIS."
