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The project studies how visually impaired people experience urban space. By focusing on
concrete spatial practices, the research problematizes straightforward relationship between
body and space, by seeing them as mutually constituted, and critically reflects modern city
configured for able-bodied subjects. It follows the poststructuralist tradition of disability
geography which concentrates on spatial experience of people with disability, and critically
reflects the discipline of geography disregarding different bodies. Research with visually
impaired people thus enriches human geography by trying to conceptualize the visually
impaired experience of urban space, and also problematizes the issue of visuality as a
discorporeal phenomenon. The project uses qualitative methods, namely interviews and goalong
research, which make it possible to find out how visually impaired people learn to
navigate space, how using different kinds of assisted movement changes their experience of
urban space, and how their experience reflects visuality.