Controsenso, but not too much : digital artifacts to ease communication and exchange with seeing-impaired people

Controsenso means contradiction or counter-sense and alludes to the idea, only apparently strange, to have a blind person as your guide through their home town. Controsenso: Genoa as you have never seen it, is a virtual tour of the city of Genoa to reveal in poetry the everyday life experience of seeing-impaired people. The choice is story telling through sound and images of what blind people see and perceive of their city. It conveys strong feelings in terms of noises, smells, lights and shadows, and pavement and walls textures. These represent known objects, places, people and shops: the thousands of details that go unseen at a conscious level for most of us.