In Dialog in the Dark™ visitors are led by blind guides in small groups through a specially constructed and totally darkened exhibition where sounds, sensations, and textures convey the characteristics of environments such as a park, a city street, or a bar. In the dark, daily routines become new experiences. This creates a role reversal: sighted people are taken out of their familiar environment while the blind and visually impaired guides provide them with security and orientation by showing them a world without pictures which is not poorer, just different. Over 8 million visitors from more than 30 countries have experienced the exhibition, and thousands of blind job seekers have found employment since 1988.
