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Background: My practice examines touch as a primary modality of knowing, foregrounding the soma (The lived body as a site of perception, feeling, and meaning—your body experienced from within) as an active site of perception and meaning-making. Drawing from contemporary theories of transcorporeality and critiques of ocularcentrism, my work Braille Interstelar expands tactile communication toward speculative, interplanetary semiotics. In dialogue with concepts such as bio-signatures in astrobiology and the cultural constructedness of language, my work situates texture as both inscription and interpretation. Within today’s saturated visual culture, my work considers healing as a collective recalibration of attention.

Objectives: The project aims to explore how tactile engagement can recalibrate perceptual habits shaped by visual dominance. It further investigates how 3D-printed geometries can function as a coded tactile language that invites embodied modes of understanding, while examining how sensory diversification might contribute to reconnection and the restoration of perceptual plurality.

Methods: Using 3D printing as a material-semiotic tool, Braille Interstelar is developed through coded geometries and material experimentation. Theoretical frameworks from semiotics and speculative design support the construction of a hybrid language that merges scientific pattern recognition with poetic tactility.

Results: The printed interfaces reveal how tactile perception can generate alternative cognitive pathways, enabling audiences to inhabit a more porous and distributed ecology of sensing. Conclusion: By approaching healing as a societal rebalancing of the sensory field, the work positions touch-based communication as a catalyst for perceptual diversity and more reciprocal relations with human and more than human worlds.