Re:Vision
Multisensory translations of sight loss
Traditional understandings of visual impairment rely heavily on clinical language and sight-based representation. These approaches fail to capture the lived, emotional, and perceptual complexity of visual conditions. We lack inclusive frameworks for describing and empathising with what it means to lose sight.
Re:Vision reimagines how visual impairment is understood by translating lived experiences into multisensory artworks. Using descriptions from patients with visual impairments as creative briefs, artists working across visual, auditory, olfactory, and other senses will co-create pieces that challenge vision- and language-centred narratives. The project empowers individuals with visual impairments through creative agency, fosters cross-disciplinary collaboration, and enriches clinical, educational, and public engagement about conditions that impair vision. By turning sensory experiences into artworks, it opens new, inclusive ways to represent, communicate, and understand visual conditions, offering a more expansive and sensory vocabulary for discussing vision and perception.
By using patients’ accounts of describing their visual impairments as creative briefs for artists, we empower those living with visual impairment to become co-creators. Their descriptions will be translated into artworks that engage all the senses. These will be exhibited publicly and exhibited to expand empathy and understanding. This project is in collaboration with consultant ophthalmologist, Prof. Mariya Moosajee from Moorfields Eye Hospital (NHS), Postdoc and PhD researchers and multidisciplinary artists.
Our Aims
1. To communicate the lived experience of patients with visual impairment through the creation of multi-sensory artistic translation
2. To empower visually impaired patients and multi-sensory artists through interdisciplinary collaboration, shared creative agency, and co-creation
3. To facilitate greater education, empathy and community engagement of visual impairment
Funding
Funding for Re:Vision will provide support for the following:
1. Artist fees and materials
2. Patient and artist compensation
3. Accessibility measures
4. Exhibition production and educational programming
Contact
Project Lead: Soyoung Choi (Ophthalmology PhD at UCL, Founder of STEAMUL8)
Artist Lead: Nina Gonzalez-Park (Interdisciplinary artist, UAL)
Contact information: revisionlondon@gmail.com
Proof of Concept
Through STEAMUL8, Soyoung Choi has dedicated the past two years to developing an interdisciplinary community in London that integrates the arts with the STEM community via workshops, exhibitions, multidisciplinary events, and socials at community-centred venues including Cafe OTO, the Science Gallery, Newspeak House, and Gasworks.
Nina Gonzalez-Park has previously collaborated with Barney Hill to create “LOADING” in 2025, a transdisciplinary project bringing together interdisciplinary artists and University of Oxford researchers to co-create artworks. Below is a summary of “LOADING.”
We welcome funders interested in health innovation, inclusion, participatory art, and sensory design.