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| From top: Stride Game; Fiber Optic Sight Masks. All photos © Donald Dietz |
What
It Was |
| A 46-acre working farm and participatory educational facility operating in conjunction with The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. |
What
It Did |
| Encouraged visitors to empathize with animals and to understand their needs and behavior. |
How It Worked |
| Children and adults participated in 68 interactive activities - each showing them the world from the perspective of an animal. "Sight Masks" used fiber optics to simulate the optical systems of farm animals, giving visitors the unique opportunity to see like a cow (with almost 360 degree vision), a goat (through a square pupil) or a sheep (in black and white). A "Stride Game" conveyed a sense of the size and movement of different animals by inviting people to match their strides to those of a horse, chicken or goat. And the "Scent Maze" demonstrated pigs' dependence on their sense of smell by asking visitors to rely on their own to navigate through a maze of scented poles. |
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Casebooks 6 (1985) |
More Information |
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Visit the client's website at mspca.org
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