We are two people who studied architecture and space, and became interested in how people understand the spaces they move through. Both of us worked in education alongside university, and we have kept studying how technology can serve society through a digital society we founded in 2020 and have run for eleven cohorts.
What started this work was a space we made ourselves. After planning and running several exhibitions and pop-ups, we realised, far too late, that there was no place for a blind visitor in any of it: not in the guided tours, not in the product information, not in the exhibit labels. Our idea of barrier-free had stopped at braille on the entrance and the restroom. We created that gap, so we wanted to fill it with what we know about technology and about space.
We began by building guidance inside exhibition halls, and then, meeting blind people, we heard something that came first: before the inside of an exhibition comes the way there — getting on and off a bus, and finding a building's door. So today we build the guidance that everyday movement truly needs.
Our strengths are stubbornness and momentum. Rather than building something for many people in general, we would rather be genuinely useful the moment a single person truly needs these glasses. We hope those moments add up and move barrier-free design forward, even by one step.
We have written down not only what we can do but also what we cannot. This is not us offering technology to you; it is us asking to build it together.
If anything here is wrong or awkwardly put, please tell us. Fixing things is what we do best.
Jinseorang Madison Chung and Juyeon Lee, Co-founders, SightSpace