Ongoing Research

Publications / Presentations:

T. Tajo, [2019] Cultures of Disability and Disabling Cultures. Leuphana University Luneburg Germany. 13 November.

Tajo, T. [2019]. Towards Creating Dynamic Artistic Spaces for Social Inclusion. Spaces of Mediation. Zeitraumexit Mannheim [Germany]. 8-9

Tajo, T. [2019] Pains from the Conflicting Views of Blindness: traditional cultural and scientific views of blindness versus the experiential views of the blind. VIRTUOUS SUFFERING: new perspectives on the ethics of suffering for critical global health and justice. Leiden University, Netherlands. 16-17 September.

Tajo, T. [2019] Posthumanism and Transhumanis as Means: towards the goal of an infinitely open concept of humanity. 11th Beyond Humanism conference. Catholic University of Lille [France]. Held 10 july.

Tajo, T. [2018] From Visual Culture and Visual Architecture: towards inclusive culture and multisensory architecture. Lecture given to the Faculty of Architecture. University of Hasselt [Belgium] on the 8th of October.

Tajo, T. [2018] From Visual Culture and Visual Architecture: towards inclusive culture and multisensory architecture. Lecture given to the Faculty of Architecture. University of Detmold [Germany]. On 19th October.

Tajo, Thomas. [2018] Interactive Workshop on Blindness, Echolocation, and Design workshop. Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Leuven, Belgium. Held 7th December.

Tajo, T. [2018] Blind and Blindness in the Age of Neuroplasticity and Echolocation: towards a non-disabling view of blindness. We are All Able Bodies: From Sensory Deprivation to Sensory Augmentation. Institute of Technology Faculty of Architecture, San Pablo CEU University, Madrid, Spain. Held 16-17 November 2018.

 Tajo, T. [2018]. Blindness and Visual Culture: the politics of sensorial identities. Emerging New Researchers on Geography of Health and Impairment conference. University of Bristol [United Kingdom]. Held  18-19 June.

 Tajo, T. [2018]. Blindness and Visual Culture: the politics of sensorial identities. Histories of Disability: local, global and colonial stories. University of Sheffield [United Kingdom]. Held 7-8 June.

Tajo, T. [2018]. Blindness as Disability: a culturally repressed human identity. ALTER European conference. University of Lille [France]. Held 5-6 July.

Tajo, T. and Kish, D. [2018]. FlashSonar or Echolocation Education expanding the function of hearing and changing the meaning of blindness. Cognitive Futures conference. University of Kent [United Kingdom]. Held 1-4 July.

Tajo, T. and Kish, D. [2018]. FlashSonar or Echolocation Education expanding the function of hearing and changing the meaning of blindness. BODYWORKS:  A CONFERENCE ON CORPOREAL REPRESENTATION. Northumbria University [United Kingdom]. Held 3 May.

Tajo, T. and Kish, D. [2018]. FlashSonar or Echolocation Education expanding the function of hearing and changing the meaning of blindness. Phenomenology of Medicine and Bioethics conference. Sodertorn University Stockholm [Sweden]. Held 13-15 June.

Tajo, T. [2018]. Human Echolocation: Changing the Traditional Cultural Conception of Human-Animal Relations. Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene International Conference, Masaryk University, Brno [Czech Republic] Held on 3rd-5th October. 2016 Given a talk in the Disability Mundis doctoral workshop in the University of Uppsala [Sweden] on the history of blindness and the cultural history of the senses.

Tajo, T. [2018] Blind and Blindness in the Age of Neuroplasticity and Echolocation: towards a non-disabling view of blindness. We are All Able Bodies: From Sensory Deprivation to Sensory Augmentation. Institute of Technology Faculty of Architecture, San Pablo CEU University, Madrid, Spain. Held 16-17 November 2018.

Tajo, T. [2018]. Blindness and Visual Culture: the politics of sensorial identities. Emerging New Researchers on Geography of Health and Impairment conference. University of Bristol [United Kingdom]. Held  18-19 June.

Tajo, T. [2018]. Blindness and Visual Culture: the politics of sensorial identities. Histories of Disability: local, global and colonial stories. University of Sheffield [United Kingdom]. Held 7-8 June.

Tajo, T. [2018]. Blindness as Disability: a culturally repressed human identity. ALTER European conference. University of Lille [France]. Held 5-6 July. expanding the function of hearing and changing the meaning of blindness. Cognitive Futures conference. University of Kent [United Kingdom]. Held 1-4 July.

 Tajo, T. [2018]. Human Echolocation: Changing the Traditional Cultural Conception of Human-Animal Relations. Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene International Conference, Masaryk University, Brno [Czech Republic] Held on 3rd-5th October.

Tajo, T. [2018] From Visual Culture and Visual Architecture: towards inclusive culture and multisensory architecture. Lecture given to the Faculty of Architecture. University of Hasselt [Belgium] on the 8th of October.

Tajo, T. [2018] From Visual Culture and Visual Architecture: towards inclusive culture and multisensory architecture. Lecture given to the Faculty of Architecture. University of Detmold [Germany]. On 19th October.

Tajo, Thomas. [2018] Interactive Workshop on Blindness, Echolocation, and Design workshop. Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Leuven, Belgium. Held 7th December.