RECLAIM YOUR CITY!
The Urban Yoga photo series are metaphors for the experiment: how do we perceive space if we surrender ourselves to it with our whole sensuous body and give ourselves up to feelings that are running through space? As the very symbol of intense urban environment and life-style, New York was the ideal place to launch The Urban Yoga photo series, later taken also in Paris, Madrid, and Ljubljana. With your help I hope that the final destination - The Urban Yoga Tokyo - will become come a reality!
THE URBAN YOGA BY ANJA HUMLJAN
Smell, touch, taste, see, and hear, how does you city feel?
It is not yoga as such. It is an architectural experiment by Anja Humljan, an architect and yogi. The Urban Yoga is changing the way we experience every day situations in an urban environment by focusing on our body and senses. Anja has just launched the project on Kickstarter in order to raise the funds for publishing The Urban Yoga book, containing The Urban Yoga photo series and context behind the project and for further research that she aims to pursue at The New School for Design in San Diego (NSAD), together with Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA).
The goal of The Urban Yoga is to develop a method for designing space based on subconscious sensory experience. It is not geometry and function, but what we touch, smell, taste and hear without even realizing that defines most whether we feel good or bad in a certain environment and at a certain time. General analyses of space mostly deal with geometry and function; so in order to design urban space with sensuous human in mind we need complementary methods that analyze the subconscious sensory experience and The Urban Yoga is on a good way to become one.
The Urban Yoga photo series are metaphors for the experiment: how do we perceive space if we surrender ourselves to it with our whole sensuous body and give ourselves up to feelings that are running through space? Moreover, they are encouraging urban citizens to claim back their city and call for urban environment that not only provides the world with pragmatic buildings or on the contrary with buildings that are visually stunning, but functionally useless, but to express fundamental truth of the human condition, including dreams, imagination and desires: not only of the designers themselves, but also of those, who use it on a daily basis.
As the very symbol of intense urban environment and life-style, New York was the ideal place to launch The Urban Yoga photo series, later taken also in Paris, Madrid, and Ljubljana.
As The Urban Yoga project is currently featured on Kickstarter, we would very much appreciate to share the good word and back us up!
TECHNICAL SHEET.-
Photographers Jaka Vinšek New York, Emilio P. Doiztua Madrid, Antoine Le Grand Paris, Primož Lukežič Ljubljana
Book and Poster Design Marko Humljan
Video Bright Visuals
Music (video) Blaž Gracar
Location Scouts (video) Riiba
Make-up artist (video) Eva Seljan
Business Advisor Niko Klanšek
Product Photos Primož Lukežič
Costume Design Tanja Zorn Grželj
911 Elvis Halilović
