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About Blind Burners Blind Burners is an international group of blind, low vision and sighted burners. Blind Burners is an international group of artists, performers, builders, filmmakers and game developers. We began life as a group of friends organising online parties during lockdown. We evolved an off-playa mission to create non-visual Virtual Reality experiences, and … Continue Reading

What are we looking for Blind Burners is looking for design thinkers, welders, and Burning Man camp wizards to help customise our camp’s shipping container. We want the interior to be designed so that accessing our tents, bikes, shade structure, and artsy stuff is as smooth as shit off a ducks ass. And we want … Continue Reading

A Global Initiative for Radical Inclusion, Accessible Creativity, and Blind/Low Vision Authorship Vision Blind Burners exists to unlock the full creative power and authorship of blind and low vision artists, technologists, and community members. What began as a friendship group formed at Burning Man is now a growing international movement catalysing change across participatory arts, … Continue Reading

Blind Burners Tabletop Model Project  Blind Burners exists because of a desire for connection, to share transcendent experiences, to create, to facilitate moments of serendipitous ‘playa magic’ that are often dependent on our visual sense, and to do so independently, with maximum agency for each participant.  The ARTery is the on-playa home of the Burning … Continue Reading

Develop: Brighton Each year in July, the UK games industry and international friends gather in the seaside town of Brighton. Develop:Brighton prides itself on bringing together the entire game-making industry, ‘from global superstars to micro indies, to learn from each other, share ideas and experiences, network and do business in a friendly and inclusive environment’. … Continue Reading

Blind Burners really began to become a thing in those months of mid-2020 when much of the world was in lockdown, and fierce creative spirits across the world found each other and began re-imagining their culture online. Evolving from an imaginary campfire hosted by me and Adil from our flats on opposite sides of London, … Continue Reading

‘Imagine you see a baby lying in the street, and the baby is crying. What do you do?’ asked Richard Tait, a Microsoft hiring manager back in 1992 to the then unknown young man from India. The young man answered that he would dial 911. Tait, who went on to co-found Cranium Games, walked the … Continue Reading

For me, 2019 was a year of many firsts. I travelled  to North India, experienced the thrill of  bungee jumping, endured  real cold climate and most importantly, moved out of my 17-year hostel life.  Moving out of my comfort zone signalled something. A thirst to change the way I live gripped me. A thirst to … Continue Reading

So, it went like this. We went into lockdown, and I thought we would be equal. All of our activity restricted the same, our freedoms curtailed similarly. All permitted one exercise a day, all directed to stay away from friends. But quickly, too quickly, it became apparent that we were not equal. Some still had … Continue Reading

Burning Man co-founder Larry Harvey wrote the Ten Principles in 2004 as guidelines for the newly-formed Regional Network. They were crafted not as a dictate of how people should be and act, but as a reflection of the community’s ethos and culture as it had organically developed since the event’s inception. Here, we offer our … Continue Reading