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 preprossesed 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 or join at FB.

Jiri