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Renovating Body and Space

Qualitative Inquiry

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Abstract

In this article, the author has renamed the complicated conglomeration of the lived experience of the body-space as an "embody." An embody includes a body schema, extensions to that body schema, peripersonal space, space, and more—a sort of working map of self and world. An embody continually changes definition in interaction with culture, (architectural) habitats, clothes, tools, vehicles, others, and so forth. Multiple embodies are often simultaneously deployed. Through vignettes and poetic prose, this project explores how the embody of daily experiences is composed. What is this embody of embodied experience? What forms of bodies and spaces does it take up? How are they constructed? What can they do?