Corporeality: Emergent Consciousness within its Spatial Dimensions

Emergent Consciousness within its Spatial Dimensions
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-420-3838-7
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 39, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 384 g

Reihe: Consciousness, Literature and the Arts

Corporeality: Emergent consciousness within its spatial dimensions develops our understanding of what we can experience through our bodies in relation to the space around us. Rather than considering architecture as being about manifestation and mediation of fixed meanings, the book focuses instead on architectural space as a field that envelopes us incessantly, intimately, and affectively. We are in immediate contact with that space, and the way we relate to it determines how we are able to grasp the realities of the social and material worlds around us.
This enquiry considers architectural space and its impact on and relation to us from a range of disciplines and perspectives, leading from space to sense and to sensibility. The theatre becomes a central point of reference on this journey, allowing us to understand how space “works” by linking concrete spatial conditions to corresponding “forms of experience”. It allows showing how the ways we feel, think, and act emerge from within the rich texture of the pre-conscious and non-contemplative. That texture is induced and nourished by our bodily encounters with space. Offering a view of how immediate experience is generated in the body, this book enhances empirical research into the links between space, body, experience and consciousness.

Maya Nanitchkova Öztürk is Associate Professor in Theory and Criticism of Architecture. Her academic interests and publications focus on space-body relationships and experience of space/place, as grounds for developing analytical methodologies and interdisciplinary links in discourse, and teaching. She works at Bilkent University (Ankara), Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design. She is on the editorial boards of ISI journal Space and Culture, and the web-journal Consciousness, Literature and the Arts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nanitchkova Öztürk, Maya

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Rethinking corporeality: physical space between theoretical obscurity and experiential potential
Chapter One. The ‘lived’: from ‘body’ to the body with space
Chapter Two. From ‘lived space’ and ‘experience’ to the materiality of experience
Part Two: Corporeal constructions: theatre as context and case of inquiry
Chapter Three. Contextualizing corporeality: theatre space between mediation and generation of experience
Chapter Four. From space to sense—to sensibility
Chapter Five. Discussion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Maya Nanitchkova Öztürk is Associate Professor in Theory and Criticism of Architecture. Her academic interests and publications focus on space-body relationships and experience of space/place, as grounds for developing analytical methodologies and interdisciplinary links in discourse, and teaching. She works at Bilkent University (Ankara), Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design. She is on the editorial boards of ISI journal Space and Culture, and the web-journal Consciousness, Literature and the Arts.