{"product_id":"sensing-london-walking-tour-saturday-7-november-2026-10am","title":"Sensing London walking tour - Saturday 7 November 2026 10am","description":"\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003eJoin Open City for an ‘adventure of the optic nerve’ exploring how our sense of vision shapes our perception of London’s built environment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThis walking tour — led by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/open-city.org.uk\/golden-key-academy\"\u003eGolden Key Academy\u003c\/a\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThroughout 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eIn 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThis walk teaches the art of moving mindfully through urban space – sensing the rhymes, rhythm, volumes, and voids that normally flow past unnoticed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eLondon 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eHighlights of the route include: Inner Temple, Strand Aldwych, Somerset House, Air Street Arch and Burlington House.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKey information\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-601eb9b18f117d73a29d\" data-block-type=\"2\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMeet:\u003c\/strong\u003e Outside Tudor Street Gate, Middle Temple, EC4Y 0BH - meet on the corner of Tudor Street and Temple Avenue. (The 2nd stop on this tour is outside 6 Crown Office Row London EC4Y 7DR)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEnd:\u003c\/strong\u003e Outside the Royal Academy, Burlington House, Piccadilly W1J 0BD\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDuration:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.5 hrs approx\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDistance:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2 miles approx\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoute notes:\u003c\/strong\u003e There are steps in Inner Temple and can easily re-route if needed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMeet the tour guide…\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrandon Jackson is an artist whose practice investigates the intersections of painting, architecture, and perception. He can often be spotted on London's streets with his plein air painting easel capturing the play of light across the city's spaces. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHis work is grounded in his academic training studying visual neuroscience at Yale University and the history of science at the University of Cambridge. He regularly gives talks on this subject, most recently at the University of Greenwich and MIT.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eJackson is a graduate of the 2023 Golden Key Academy — a masterclass for urban and architectural tour guiding run by Open City. 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