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here is my new letter and questions to deaf contacts:
G’day,
I am a hearing student examining a deaf persons experience within the Melbourne CBD. I’m looking not just into troubles one might have, but experiences, language, emotions, hang-ups, and feedback on the landscape of the city. My personal experience would include excitement riding through the city, a sense of exploration, of finding the newest places, the funkiest alleys, checking out what people have thrown out, basking in the sun in front of the state library, the differences between the atmosphere in King and Swanston streets, riding on trams, watching buskers etc. I guess what I’m saying is that they don’t need to be exclusively ‘deaf’ experiences.
Hearing people have many misconceptions about deaf people and culture, and perhaps this installation might be an opportunity to debunk some of these. If you could help me out by writing about your experience in the city, perhaps with some response to the following questions. However, if you feel something is important that’s not covered, write about it!
Can you describe broad or common experiences in the city?
Are there any specific examples of experiences you have? (i.e There was this one time….)
What emotions do you feel in the city? Are any of these emotions more characteristic of a deaf person?
How do you believe being deaf (in the city) affects you?
What is being done/needs to be done for deaf people in the city?
How does a deaf person experience what a hearing person experiences as sound? (etc, vibrations of trams) And how could this translate into something a hearing person experiences? (i.e getting a hearing person to empathise more with deaf people.)
Is the city dangerous, likeable, intriguing etc?
How can hearing people accommodate better for deaf people?
What do you think your experiences in the city have in common with other deaf people’s?
Can you think of metaphors or similes which describe your experience or emotion (in English or Auslan)?
Thankyou.
My current plans are to develop responses into a video of an Auslan ‘poem’, and an English poem with an interpretation in English. Any assistance you give can be credited or not if you wish.
I think this is a valuable project for hearing and deaf people. It’s a chance to learn a lot about each other and the city.
Thanks again,
Ben Landau
landau_ben@hotmail.com
G’day,
I am a hearing student examining a deaf persons experience within the Melbourne CBD. I’m looking not just into troubles one might have, but experiences, language, emotions, hang-ups, and feedback on the landscape of the city. My personal experience would include excitement riding through the city, a sense of exploration, of finding the newest places, the funkiest alleys, checking out what people have thrown out, basking in the sun in front of the state library, the differences between the atmosphere in King and Swanston streets, riding on trams, watching buskers etc. I guess what I’m saying is that they don’t need to be exclusively ‘deaf’ experiences.
Hearing people have many misconceptions about deaf people and culture, and perhaps this installation might be an opportunity to debunk some of these. If you could help me out by writing about your experience in the city, perhaps with some response to the following questions. However, if you feel something is important that’s not covered, write about it!
Can you describe broad or common experiences in the city?
Are there any specific examples of experiences you have? (i.e There was this one time….)
What emotions do you feel in the city? Are any of these emotions more characteristic of a deaf person?
How do you believe being deaf (in the city) affects you?
What is being done/needs to be done for deaf people in the city?
How does a deaf person experience what a hearing person experiences as sound? (etc, vibrations of trams) And how could this translate into something a hearing person experiences? (i.e getting a hearing person to empathise more with deaf people.)
Is the city dangerous, likeable, intriguing etc?
How can hearing people accommodate better for deaf people?
What do you think your experiences in the city have in common with other deaf people’s?
Can you think of metaphors or similes which describe your experience or emotion (in English or Auslan)?
Thankyou.
My current plans are to develop responses into a video of an Auslan ‘poem’, and an English poem with an interpretation in English. Any assistance you give can be credited or not if you wish.
I think this is a valuable project for hearing and deaf people. It’s a chance to learn a lot about each other and the city.
Thanks again,
Ben Landau
landau_ben@hotmail.com
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