Taras Zhyvokorentsev
Global Undergraduate Exchange Program (UGRAD) - for undergrads, University of the Ozarks, 2017

Feel The Culture
Feel The Culture - the exhibit which allow to blind people to explore the culture and architectural monuments of different countries. The exhibition comprises of three-dimensional models - exact replicas of the world architectural structures. People can discover them by tactile sensations. All copies of architectural monuments are printed on a 3D printer. They have high quality and most accurately reproduce the relief features of authentic buildings.  Visitors can combine tactile sensations with the scents and the music, all characteristics of a particular culture. Moreover, a short description and interesting facts about the monument - recorded on audio files with the help of professional actors - complete the experience. Entanglement of 3 senses allows to get fully acquainted with the cultures of the world, to plungedeeply into the atmosphere of the culture and to feel it. This exhibition is available also for sighted people, but they should be blindfolded. Thus other senses sharpen and person studies architecture in a completely different way.  Since the start of the project, more than 200 blind people and 2500 non-blind people visited the Feel The Culture exhibition., 22 October 2016 – present