The sensorium of the Twelve Senses is intended to present, in the form of a game, senses that are not commonly familiar to us but are important for modern life. By exploring the experiential attractions and objects in the expositions about the twelve senses, each visitor can experience the essence of deep inner fulfilment and an internal encounter with the individual senses. A person of the modern world can thus develop his or her abilities in the form of a game.
A walk through the entire Twelve Senses exposition will allow you to experience, to discover and to absorb everything one can do to develop the individual senses, and what can be undertaken to perfect their use. The exhibits give visitors opportunities for reflection on the complexities of the human essence. In the form of a game, everyone can try out the basis for the existence of our twelve senses.
The intent of the exposition is to provide stimuli for one’s personal development and for reflection on how one experiences life. New concepts describing experienced reality will also be made available to visitors. “Only when I know what I can perceive do I truly feel it.”
Through the design of the sensorium of the Twelve Senses, we offer you the opportunity to have new experiences and to enhance your perception. Our goal was to create an environment that would provide experiences and also inspire reflection on oneself – on how our senses work and how we can refine them.
When we create various environments, we perceive how people long to fulfil their souls. They explore the space fully and with interest – to experience new and unfamiliar things, to be amazed, to discover unfamiliar surroundings and their beauty – while at the same time being led and taken care of by the contrived environment. The ideal is to design an environment with a mood and content, and, moreover, to create such spaces where others can perceive us well – to form architecture for the human, who has his own body, soul and spirit. For such a project, Rudolf Steiner’s teachings about the twelve senses and the work of Hugo Kükelhaus are an exhilarative inspiration for us. We hope that many more sensoria emerge out of their creative legacy – whole buildings, playgrounds, parks and schools, where we will be able to experience and discover our human senses.
Oldřich Hozman (www.arc.cz)
For me, the realisation of the Twelve Senses exposition was a nostalgic journey through the landscape of my childhood and adolescence, during which I was in direct contact with the applied anthroposophy of Rudolf Steiner. It was also a pleasant memory of working in the atelier of Bogdan Cerovac and Ruda Milde, and especially of my family’s amazing creative milieu. All these places led me to the conviction that the mere five senses that we know from school are insufficient for understanding the meaning of life. I am happy that Olda Hozman and I managed to produce this joint work, and that through it we can provide visitors with a range of stimuli that may ease the search for their own roads in life.
Jiří Wald