The theme of my history thesis will be: the evaluation of the blind institute throughout the years, looking from the perception of Merleau-Ponty's "body" in the architecture. After two weeks of research I narrowed the search down to the evaluation of the almshouse which linked Blindness with mental patients. In these times blindness was thought off as a blindness of the mind or 'ate' (greek word for blindness and later on for mental blindness). The people who weren't lucky to be helped by family or neighbors came to temples and monasteries who had place for helping the sick and the poor. Later on this evolved in the almshouse. Around 1700 the first blind institutes started to appear. These institutes evolved from small initiatives (mostly in already existing buildings) to the modern institutes we have today.
The structure for the history thesis will be for now:
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