What is Praguespotting?

• Insider's view of a city • Way of looking at things • Invitation to share certain type of experiences

What is it good for?

• Making the most of travelling • Generating personal metaphores • Practicing awareness • Having fun

How does it work?

• When on holidays, you are cut off from daily routines, ongoing issues and binding networks. Most people immediately substitute those anchoring phenomena with various guides, programmes, schedules and to-do-to-see lists deeply rooted in their education and social affiliation. On the other hand, such a unique situation can be taken as a great opportunity to refresh both mind and senses, to learn something of oneself. Imagine:

• Each human artefact existed once solely in the mind of a single person. So whenever you look around in a populated area, you find yourself in the middle of a materialized collective mental landscape.

• If you don't bind your mind with preprocessed stuff, entering an unknown territory can be like entering a dream. As in a dream, things that address you tell you something of yourself. It is however much easier to remember, it is even possible to record and to create.

Praguespotting is a way to percieve a city. It is a justification of wandering, too.

Spotting is my view of my city. It had evolved for several years until I finally decided to give it a fixed form to be able to present it. Some of those places dissappeared in the meantime, but to me, it is a part of the game I'd like to invite you to join in.

In Bearings I offer some basic practical advice. The places listed are the places I like personally. Of course, there are many more great places in Prague. I suggest you just wander and wonder.

• There are only two forces to follow: horizon and gravity, both in a broad sense – horizon as the limit of perception, as the threshold where phenomena merge and emerge; gravity as the field that generates interactions. Let yourself exposed. Don’t discriminate. Let your attention gravitate. Harvest. Sieve. Weave.

And if you feel like it, contact me at jiri@praguespotting.com or join at FB.

Jiri