Rummi Seth on Monument Accessibility

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In this film, Rummi Seth, the Founder-Managing Trustee of Saksham, shares her work of making heritage monuments accessible to everyone. She talks about creating tactile replicas of monuments, which include Braille and audio features. Rummi’s vision is to build inclusive spaces that people – whether sighted or blind, disabled or not – can experience and enjoy. Watch the film to see how accessibility can help a person see the beauty of this world.

I’m Rummi Seth, Founder-Managing Trustee of Saksham. There’s so much being done on accessibility, each one of us has a role to play to make life more enjoyable, beautiful, by making things, products accessible for everyone.
Whether you’re a designer, you’re an architect, app developer, web designer, you have to, please keep in mind, it should be made in such a way, it is for everyone to enjoy, whether they are sighted or blind, disabled or non-disabled, children or adults, for all to live a beautiful life.
And yet so much has to be done.
We need to go way beyond what we’re doing.
And one of the things that has been a passion for a very long time is making heritage monuments accessible for everyone, and that can be done by making replicas with Braille and audio.
And as you see, we have a Sanchi Stupa, the first replica that we have done and which, I think I’ve showed to many, has proved to be quite good, though it’s a little bigger in size, it should be smaller, but this is what we plan to do.
And when the monuments are done, they will be put in a place, which will be for everyone to enjoy, whether they are children, adults, sighted, non-sighted, and also for tourists visiting India.
They may not be able to go to all the places where these are, so they can all see them in one spot in Delhi or anywhere.

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