Ravenna, City of Mosaics, UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Partnership with EnChroma and Fondazione Paolina Brugnatelli, Enables Color Blind Visitors to Rediscover the Colors of Mosaics
July 15 2024 - 12:08PM
Business Wire
-EnChroma glasses will allow color blind visitors to view
Ravenna's mosaics with a wider chromatic range perception for the
first time-
Opera di Religione della Diocesi di Ravenna, EnChroma,
manufacturers of lenses for color blind users, Francesca Carlone,
sustainable designer and founder of the project, Fondazione Paolina
Brugnatelli and ITRIA announce today an initiative to enhance the
experience of color blind visitors. Starting July 19, 2024,
visitors with this vision condition will be able to borrow special
glasses during their visit to live for the first time the
experience of seeing light and bright color mosaics. The project,
called ColoRaMi - color mosaics, will be introduced on July 19 at
Basilica di Sant’Apollinare Nuovo as part of the Ravenna Mosaici
FOR ALL program.
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Basilica di San Vitale: Agnus Dei. Normal
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In Italy, approximately 2.5 million people are color blind, a
vision condition affecting a higher number of men (8%) vs. women
(0.5%) and approximately 350 million people worldwide. Whereas
people with normal color vision can see over one million shades of
color, people with color vision deficit only see 10% of tones and
shades. As a result, colors can appear dull or even
indistinguishable. EnChroma lenses allow people with deuteranomaly
and protanomaly to perceive a much wider range of colors.
Artistic and cultural heritage is enhanced also by improving its
accessibility, safety, and inclusiveness. Thanks to ColoRaMi,
Ravenna's Mosaics will be the world's first mosaics to be made
accessible to color blind people. Starting Friday, July 19,
EnChroma glasses will be distributed free of charge at the
following locations: Basilica of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo, Mausoleum
of Galla Placidia, Basilica of San Vitale, Neonian Baptistry,
Archiepiscopal Museum, and Sant’Andrea Chapel, thus enabling
visitors to see for the first time the mosaics in all their
chromatic complexity.
The opening event on July 19, at 3:00 p.m. will host a “live
reveal” event, in which a number of color blind participants will
share the daily challenges of color blindness and the difference
made by EnChroma lenses in their viewing experience of the
multicolor nuances of the mosaics.
EVENT INFO:
When: Friday, July 19 at 3:00 p.m. Where: Basilica
of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo
What's a Live Reveal:
A "Live Reveal" is an opportunity for volunteers to test
EnChroma glasses for the first time and share their experience. At
the end of the day, the volunteers may keep their custom-made
glasses.
About EnChroma glasses:
EnChroma glasses are the product of two NIH research grants and
of clinical studies conducted at UC Berkeley and UC Davis, USA. In
2016, EnChroma glasses were awarded the Tibbetts Award by the U.S.
Small Business Administration for their innovative
technology-driven impact on individual experience. EnChroma glasses
use special optical filters that help people with color vision
deficiency (protanomaly and deuteranomaly) experience a wider range
of colors, perceiving them as more accurate, brighter, and sharper.
Please note: EnChroma glasses do not treat color blindness and work
for 9 out of 10 color blind wearers.
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Francesca Carlone, sustainable designer Tel: +39 3279558262
fracarlone25@gmail.com
Christian D’Angiò - Office for Promotion and Development of
Diocesan Cultural Heritage Opera di Religione della Diocesi di
Ravenna Tel: +39 0544 541688 promozione@ravennamosaici.it
www.ravennamosaici.it
Fondazione Paolina Brugnatelli Tel: +39 342 8234246
info@fondazionepaolinabrugnatelli.org
www.fondazionepaolinabrugnatelli.org
EnChroma Cecilia Gerosa Marketing and PR manager +39 3387854590
cecilia@enchroma.co.uk https://eu.enchroma.com/