SensingSpaces:Architecture Reimagined

Art DetectivesA guide for young visitors

Art Detectives are supported by the Flow Foundation

Once you have had a good look around, draw your favourite installation, or design your own!

How do spaces make us feel? The exhibition you are about to explore is very different to anything you might have seen before, here at the Royal Academy or anywhere else. Normally in a gallery, you are only asked to use your eyes to look at a picture or a sculpture, and usually, you are not allowed to touch anything. These are not the rules in ‘Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined’. In fact, it’s the opposite! We want you to touch, climb, stare, listen, and even smell as you interact with the installations. Use all your senses and be aware of everything around you as you enter and linger in the galleries...‘Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined’ sees the RA transformed by installations created by seven architectural practices from around the world. Their aim is to give us a fresh perspective on architecture. There is no ‘right’ route around ‘Sensing Spaces’, but here is a map in case you get lost!

Introduction

Written by Asha McLoughlin, RA Learning © Royal Academy of ArtsDesigned by Kathrin Jacobsen

Photographs © Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2014. Photography: James Harris / Photo © Benedict Johnson

We want to know which installation in ‘Sensing Spaces’ was your favourite and why! Tell us about it, or draw us a picture. Or tweet us @royalacademy using #SensingSpaces with a photo of you and your favourite work!

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