Alongside its public projects, as part of the Tselinny.studies educational program, the Inclusive Laboratory of Non-Visual Anthropology was launched in November 2022 at the MAXKIDS kindergarten. The laboratory was developed by an alliance of specialists in typhlopedagogy and architects. Its aim is to foster creative thinking and spatial perception in children aged 3 to 5 and 7 to 11.

Among the instructors: Assiya Nurdubaeva, Galiya Myamisheva, Indira Belyalova.

Architect Assiya Nurdubaeva about the laboratory:

“In our course, we are focused on practically realizing the dream of a universal lens into the World — for those who see with their eye orbits and those who do not. Groups of children without visual function gather into experimental communities of creative thought, with the opportunity to construct Holes in the unconscious through tactile materials — clay, plasticine, models, holes in matter, and music. Our world needs an exploration of love through a different kind of sight — to understand how, in what way, we can awaken inner vision, which in turn allows free creative thinking to emerge — in a child, an adult, or someone who once saw and then lost that vision.” 

The laboratory is the starting point of our work on a regular inclusive program. We aim to create a permanent platform for helping blind individuals adapt to their surrounding environment and to explore ways of transforming urban space to increase accessibility.