Dialogue in the dark
Dialog im Dunkeln is a social franchise product from Dialogue Social Enterprise GmbH (DSE), alongside Dialogue in Silence and Dialogue with Time, and was originally conceived by Andreas Heinecke .
With the aim of bringing sighted people closer to the everyday life of people with blindness and enabling them to meet at eye level, the exhibition has been shown in over 30 countries and more than 130 cities since it was founded in 1988 and has now more than 9 million Reached visitors. The exhibitions also created around 9,000 job opportunities for the blind and visually impaired.
Blind people lead groups of visitors through the completely darkened exhibition. Here they experience recreated everyday situations, such as a park, an urban landscape or a bar, with scents, wind, temperatures, tones and textures. The conception includes a role reversal, in that blind people guarantee the orientation of the visitors and they are removed from their usual perception routines.
history
During his work as a journalist for the Südwestfunk should Andreas Heinecke a back-to-work training develop a blind colleague. Disability and being blind were foreign to him until then, but the collaboration with his blind colleague brought him to a new concept in 1988: "What happens when you turn off the light, completely darken a room and meet blind and sighted people with you invites reversed roles? "
The first experiments in the dark followed and in 1989 the first dialogue in the dark was opened in Frankfurt. After further exhibition experiments in Europe with increasing success, the first permanent exhibition Dialog in the Dark was opened in Hamburg in 2000 .
Permanent exhibitions
Dialog im Dunkeln has existed in Hamburg since 2000. It began initially with state funding and was limited in time, and was then permanently established as a gGmbH . About 90,000 visitors are counted annually. In addition to the exhibition and a workshop center for dark workshops, the Dialoghaus Hamburg also houses the other dialogue exhibitions by Dialogue Social Enterprise GmbH: Dialogue in Silence and, since 2017, Dialogue with Time .
There is the Dialog Museum in Frankfurt . It has existed since 2005 and, in addition to the exhibition, also offers dark workshops and various events.
In Vienna there is also a permanent Dialog in the Dark exhibition, which also offers dinner in the dark and other events and the similar muZIEum is close to the border in Nijmegen . Further permanent exhibitions are located in the Cholon ( Children's Museum ) as well as in Turkey , South Korea , Hong Kong , India , Australia , China , Thailand , Japan , Malaysia , Italy , Mexico , Russia and Argentina .
Web links
- Dialogue in the Dark, Hamburg
- Dialogue in the Dark, Vienna
- Dialog Museum , Frankfurt
- Dialogue in the Dark international website
- Video of the Frankfurt exhibition
- Katrin Wilkens: Der Gleichmacher , Die Zeit - Website, June 1, 2006
- Andreas Heinecke, invented the "dialogue in the dark" e in one to one. The talk , BR2 radio interview on May 4, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Founder | Dialogue Social Enterprise. In: www.dialogue-se.com. Retrieved September 7, 2016 .
- ↑ Andreas Heinecke: Darken a Room and invite People to meet under reverse conditions | Dialogue in the Dark. (No longer available online.) In: www.dialogue-in-the-dark.com. Archived from the original on September 15, 2016 ; accessed on September 7, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Global Dialogue Exhibitions & Hubs | Dialogue in the Dark. (No longer available online.) In: www.dialogue-in-the-dark.com. Archived from the original on September 15, 2016 ; accessed on September 7, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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