Conceived as an experiment to challenge the conventions of traditional art and architecture exhibitions, it sets out to awaken and recalibrate our sensibilities to the spaces that surround us. As such, it is part demonstration and part experiment, which in the spirit of enquiry requires interaction and participation from its audience. With such unique and ambitious aims, Sensing Spaces has already prompted critics to call it a must-experience, once-in-a-generation show. For a period of ten weeks, visitors to the Royal Academy's Main Galleries are invited to observe, move through and around, touch, adapt and occupy a series of specially commissioned architectural installations. During this time, the familiar character of its grand Beaux-Arts galleries will host a series of contemporary architectural interventions that will radically transform the apparently dominant character of the classically planned and detailed interiors