This page provides further details of the concept and content of this exhibit. I have not yet 'set' the exhibit in the location of the Health Clinic, I am first deciding which elements I want to include.

Please see the Resources section for diagrams of the exhibit which illustrate the content (WIP).

This exhibit first draws your attention with an extremely large eye chart on the rear wall. At first it looks like a standard alphabet eye chart, but as you get to the lower rows the text fuzzes until it is completely, myopically blurred. Above you head hangs a large (approx. 4 feet long) pair of adaptive spectacles, complete with adjustment devices.

The main part of the exhibit consists of four spaced out booths. Each booth is in a small housing and cannot be seen into from the side. There is space for one person at each booth. The booths have a pair of adaptive spectacles attached to them on a long chain, a (variety of) chin rest(s), and sleeves to put you arms in to reach inside the booth. Once in position you can see into each booth, and see the contents inside. There is a small card, or audio, which tells you what you have to do.

Each booth houses a task for you to perform, and each pair of adaptive spectacles chained to the booth simulate a specific eye condition. This is an eye condition with which, the task would be very tricky to perform. The tasks would be mocked up to a certain degree. For example, if the task were to shot prey in the distance when you are short-sighted with a stigmatism, the prey could be computer animated and your gun would be an electronic pointer/joystick as with computer games.

To make matters more interesting, as you try each task, the glasses you are wearing gradually adapt over time (e.g. 30 – 60 seconds) until correct vision is restored. This presents more of a challenge to complete the task quickly, and illustrates the enormous difference access to eyecare makes to people’s lives – in a ‘hands-on’ manner.