Tactile Space is a public engagement project that includes a set of tactile resources so that space science can be accessed by visually impaired people. Images representing various aspects of space science have been rendered as surfaces to be touched. Tactile Space follows from the work of Tactile Universe, and we are grateful to Tactile Universe for their guidance and collaboration with this project.
We have a collection of tactile plates that can be lent out to interested people for use at their own public engagement event. For Key stage 2 and 3 we have produced accompanying educational materials that link subsets of the plates into various workshops.
Each plate is labelled with a title bar in Braille script. On the back of each plate, there is a printed description of the image, plus a QR code that links to a more detailed description on this website. These descriptions can be easily read by webpage readers.