Taktiles Erzählen

What happens to a story when it becomes tactile? How can stories be told through touch? The project “Tactile Storytelling” is a collaboration between the Department of Textiles - Free, Applied and Experimental Artistic Design and the Institute for Language Arts. Over the course of a semester, tactile books were developed for visually impaired young people studying at the Federal Institute for the Blind, Vienna. Their wishes, ideas, and experiences formed the starting point of the design process. Working in small groups, students developed concepts for haptic books that combine language, material, and touch, and explore new forms of storytelling.