Proposal of a project on colour blindness at the Faculty of Fine Arts, UCM

Zusammenfassung

Colour blindness (technical name: dyschromatopsia) is an alteration in the vision of colour. Its occu-rrence is ca. 8% among men and 0.5% among women. In the university teaching of Fine Arts, colour isessential. If we are to achieve an inclusive education, it becomes necessary and inescapable to takestudents with dyschromatopsia into account. The project How do we see colour blindness? aims toaddress the specificities of this mode of seeing, its repercussions in plastic production and the challen-ges inherent in the university teaching and learning of Fine Arts, especially of painting. It is intended tointegrate students with this diversity in the painting classes and, additionally, to orient teachers to adapttheir subjects (activities, evaluation, etc.) to this group. It is conceived as a two-year project. The firstwill be mainly focussed on dyscromatopsic students. The second will continue to work with them but willfocus especially on teachers, listening to their experience with colour blind students, and will culminatein the elaboration of a handbook of good practices destined to painting teachers of the Degree in FineArts, which would provide guidance on how to work with students with this particular modality of colourvision.