LOW VISION PEOPLE’S PERCEPTION TO CIRI MEDAN IN OPEN PUBLIC SPACE CASE: WAYFINDING IN BANDUNG CITY

• Main Author: Octaviana Sari, Sally
• Format: Dissertations
• Language: Indonesia
• Subjects: Teknik (Rekayasa, enjinering dan kegiatan berkaitan)
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/44604
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

The public open space in Bandung has not yet accommodated the need of sightedperson especially for people with low vision so far. Generally the evaluation on sidewalk still emphasizes on the facility for sighted-pedestrian. The accessibility for people with special needs, especially people with low vision is still a discourse. Recently, its implementation is still a dilemmatic. Meanwhile, they present and conduct activities just like sighted-person. People with low vision often feel that their existence seems detached and distant with their surroundings, so that they have their own way in perceived space they live in. Up recently, architecture realm and the truth is still based on sighted person. This study will explore to some extent about the social psychology of people with low vision influences wayfinding process in determining ciri medan. For people with low vision, space is a set of useful information for positioning themselves against the environment and destination (wayfinding). The empirical data was collected by in-depth interview, documentation and observation from the Wyata Guna Rehabilitation Center in Padjadjaran Street, Bandung, as starting point. Some of the people with low vision in this research are those people with some characteristic such as early blind, late blind, near-sighted person, far-sighted-person, educated or non-educated and gender. The significant difference between early blind and late blind is the understanding of a holistic concept of space and form. The research location was determined by most visited place by subjects as destination with the highest intensity. Theoretical construction in this research was started by dividing data to categories or subcategories based on the spatial experiences of people with low vision in familiar and non familiar space. The process of perceiving was represented by the identification of ciri medan becoming group of categories or sub categories. The next step is to relate among data categories and sub categories, describe story line, conceptualized and constructed the theory about wayfinding of people with low vision in Bandung. The visual characteristics and the social-psychology of people with low vision become the distinguishing factor in the determination of ciri medan. In exploring space, people with low vision uses multi sensory that integrated, substituted, and iv complemented each one another, when one of the senses is malfunction (eyes, ear, nose, skin, muscle, and skeleton). Referring to in-depth interview, people with low vision determined ciri medan as preferences and references which references consist of spatial experience of theirs and another person. People with low vision will select, process and store the information in their cognitive map collectively or individually, depending on the meaning of their spatial experiences. The spatial reconstruction generates space bubbles consists of physical and non physical elements. Based on intervening factor of designing ciri medan is differentiated through spatial behaviour (design aspect) and socialpsychology of subject, cognitive map and non spatial behaviour as non-design aspect. Perceptual domination becomes part of non-design, when every place has its own characterstic. The criteria of ciri medan has to occupy visibility, uniqueness, differences and the ease of accessibility. This research contributes scientifically on how low vision people can understand and “see” space, and also recognition of ciri medan in designing inclusive public space for people with low vision.