
Join Open City for an ‘adventure of the optic nerve’ exploring how our sense of vision shapes our perception of London’s built environment.
This walking tour — led by 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.
[Tickets for this talk are costed from £19.50 to £9.50. Please pre-book.]