This walking tour — led by Open City's Golden Key Academy graduate Brandon Jackson — draws on neuroscience to offer participants a unique sensory journey through the capital where vision and perception are themselves put into question.
Throughout the tour, participants will embark on a guided experience where they are encouraged to move through spaces and focus their vision on their surroundings in new and unusual ways, rethinking how the built environment is perceived.
In our hurried London lives we all tend to disconnect from our surroundings. In this tour we will do the opposite of that. Together we will explore what French painter Pierre Bonnard called the "adventures of the optic nerve."
This walk teaches the art of moving mindfully through urban space – sensing the rhymes, rhythm, volumes, and voids that normally flow past unnoticed.
London is the perfect place for this perceptual adventure. It is an architectural collage with a mix of urban design patterns spanning millennia: from the intimate passageways of medieval London to gestures into the far distance reminiscent of the Acropolis.
As we move through some of the most powerful spaces in the city we will learn about how the brain turns light into space – and push our sensory capabilities to their limits.
Highlights of the route include: Inner Temple, Strand Aldwych, Somerset House, Air Street Arch and Burlington House.
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