TACTURB — Urban Experience for

TACTURB — Urban Experience for Visually Impaired Children in Early Childhood

TACTURB is my industrial design diploma project, developed at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. It's a modular playground system designed to help visually impaired children experience the spatial logic of the city — texture, sound, and touch — during their early developmental years, when mobility training usually hasn't started yet.

Over 19 million children globally live with visual impairment, yet most urban spaces only address physical access, not sensory experience. TACTURB responds to that gap with a tactile trilogy: touch panels, guided pathways, and sound cues that let children explore independently and build spatial confidence before formal training begins.