AGRA CONVENTION 2014
Blind Stars Beyond Facebook Bridging The Gap
7th to 9th November, 2014
Black Design – A Plugin event for Designers
Black Design: Professional Design is a tool for change that can help create new products, and improve usability of existing products that are used to assist in living a better life. India now has a sizeable number of professional Designers involved in domains of engineering, aesthetics, usability etc. This was the first time that a convention for Blind people had observers from Design fraternity organised by Pool Magazine.
Black Design and Agra Convention
Designers attending the event had eye opening revelations on to how such an event is organised for blind to how they count money, and what dominates their usual day. The interaction was valuable input for many initiatives that will happen over time.
More Designers intend to participate in the event next year. Such events need to happen all over the country to focus on issues and problems of the blind
Agra Convention
It was nothing short of a milestone in the history of visually impaired people of India when more than a hundred of them from across the country stepped away from their routine lives to come all the way to Agra to take part in a groundbreaking event – Agra Convention 2014: Blind Stars Beyond Facebook Bridging the Gap. The event was the culmination of an initiative taken by some visually impaired people 2 years ago when they decided to create a network of such people on the social networking site Facebook and named it.
The event took place in the Jubilee Hall of the Paliwal Park campus of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Agra and St. John’s Girls Inter College, Agra over the course of three days 7, 8 and 9 November 2014. It was attended by 160 visually impaired people from different states of the country like Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, and Rajasthan
Read the full report – Agra Convention 2014 – Report – HTML with Audio/Video
