現代社會是一個以視覺為中心的世界，視覺取代其他感官，成為人們知識的主要來源和溝通的重要媒介。在視覺獨大的現代文明下，盲被化約為視覺功能缺損、個人器官損傷，或甚至是認識上的無知，傳統上依賴觸覺的人因此受到社會的歧視與排斥。目前任職於日本国立民族学博物館的広瀨浩二郎，希望將通用博物館的概念進一步擴展來挑戰現代社會的視覺中心主義，並增進「依賴視覺來認識」和「依賴觸覺來認識」的人之間的彼此瞭解。広瀨浩二郎認為觸覺學習可以改變視覺中心的博物館，進而改變社會對視覺障礙者的態度。

We live in an occularcentric society. Vision is dominant over other senses and it serves as our major source of knowledge acquisition and perception, and as the main channel of communication. In a society that privileges vision over other senses, blindness has been reduced to visual impairment, bodily damage, and even epistemological ignorance. Those who traditionally rely on tactile sense are thus discriminated against and marginalized. Kojiro Hirose expands the idea of universal design to challenge occularcentrism and encourage mutual understanding between the sighted and the blind. Kojiro Hirose believes that tactile learning can change museums and their methods of display in ways that will enable museums to change the perceptions of the museumgoers and, eventually, the whole society.