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This edited volume explores the notion of embodied experience through a diverse range of disciplines: architecture, music, literature, performance studies, philosophy, geopolitics. In doing so, it illuminates the need to redefine the role of the human body as one of the protagonists for raising awareness of space-time issues through processing, experimentation and application of histories and theories of embodied awareness of space. Critically revisiting these spatio-temporal dialogues, this book suggests a method of linking theory, history and practice: past, present and future. The authors reinstate the significance of history and theory in creative thinking, and test their applicability in a number of different areas: theoretical and buildable architectural projects, mapping and geography, representation, and performative arts. This volume will appeal to students and scholars from architecture, art, cultural studies, landscape studies, media studies, and other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
List of contents
Introduction.- Performing.- Hybrid listening cultures: Approaching aural embodiment in current compositional practices.- Steps, stages, space and song: Observations on performance architecture in the long thirteenth century.- Stepping Out.- Walking Encounters: Spaces of intimacy and care in walking practices.- Agency.- Merleau-Ponty, Environmental Embodiment, and Place: Implications for Architecture and Placemaking.- The wound as a privileged locus of literary meaning: A case study in the poetry of G. S. Seferis and A. Carson.- Revisiting the Majaz. Reading the Embodied Multi-sensory Experience in the Threshold Space of Al-Sultan Hassan Mosque in Cairo.- Utopias of the Body in Architectural Space.- Missionary Icon-Scapes of the British Isles: Aidan Hart and the Hermitage of Saints Anthony & Cuthbert.- An arena of 'aql (reason): Acts of knowing, thinking, and making in the nasta'liq calligrapher's practice (mashq) sheet.- Testing.- Revise Embodiment: Dialectical Computation as Spatial Practice.- Beyond Representation: Drawing the emotional affect of Northern Ireland's anti-violence adverts.- The Metaleptic Architectural Project.- Cartographies of the Imagination: Drawing, talking, performing places.- Pleural Space: Taking-breath again, again, again.- A Space in a Space: Crafting and Living Home.
About the author
Christos Antonios Kakalis is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Newcastle University, UK. He is a registered architect and holds a PhD in Architecture from the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (E.S.A.L.A). His work focuses on the conditions of embodied experience of the architecture and natural landscape with special emphasis on the role of atmosphere.
David Boyd is a Reader in Architecture in the Department of Architecture, Planning and Landscape (SAPL) at Newcastle University, UK. His work involves combining creative practice with research into lightweight structures and sustainable housing.
