{"title":"Architectural Gestures in International Relations","authors":"P. Dhillon","doi":"10.54337/ojs.jos.v8i2.7492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54337/ojs.jos.v8i2.7492","url":null,"abstract":"Somaesthetics is useful in thinking about how buildings gesture. Analysis and interpretation of three embassies – the Belgian and US embassies in New Delhi, India and the Finnish Embassy in Canberra, Australia, offer insight into the nature of architectural gestures. Philosophically, attention to soma serves to reconcile the normative sweep of Kant’s political thought with the attention to granularity demanded by Wittgenstein.","PeriodicalId":256777,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Somaesthetics","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133603679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is space recognizing a form?","authors":"Bartlomiej Struzik","doi":"10.54337/ojs.jos.v8i2.7479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54337/ojs.jos.v8i2.7479","url":null,"abstract":" In the content of the paper, I refer to meetings with people whose reflections, general comments or even unspoken gestures have become a source of inspiration no less important to me than readings and theoretical study. At this point, I would like to particularly emphasize the role of my acquaintance with Richard Shusterman, whose concept of Somaesthetics, growing from his talent, many years of honest philosophical work and solid theoretical foundations, is probably the most striking contrast of the research method in relation to the artistic intuitions proposed in my text and postulates resulting mostly from art practice. The concepts presented in this paper, especially the two key issues of Somactive Art and space recognizing as a form, will consequently have the character of an artistic supposition and represent a theoretical sketch, rather than a thoroughly researched, well-founded, and mature scientific hypothesis.","PeriodicalId":256777,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Somaesthetics","volume":"34 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114035405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tenna Doktor Olsen Tvedebrink, L. Fich, Elisabetta Canepa, Z. Djebbara, Ole B. Jensen, Asbjørn C Carstens, Dylan Chau Huynh
{"title":"Motion and Emotion","authors":"Tenna Doktor Olsen Tvedebrink, L. Fich, Elisabetta Canepa, Z. Djebbara, Ole B. Jensen, Asbjørn C Carstens, Dylan Chau Huynh","doi":"10.54337/ojs.jos.v8i2.7404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54337/ojs.jos.v8i2.7404","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding how (dis)abled human bodies interact with the built environment is critical in Urban Design. We examine if somaesthetic theory combined with a neuro-architectural framework can help advance our understanding of human bodily interaction with the built environment. We do so first from a theoretical point of view, and second with an analysis of the situated context: Budolfi Square in Aalborg, Denmark. Our take-home-message is that architects and urban designers need to move beyond the established understanding of the multi-sensory soma, into an understanding of a situated mobile-emotional soma.","PeriodicalId":256777,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Somaesthetics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129308972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sensing the Virtual","authors":"Jessica Fiala","doi":"10.54337/ojs.jos.v8i2.7365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54337/ojs.jos.v8i2.7365","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines somaesthetics in virtual reality via the spatial lens of atmosphere, adapting theories of atmosphere to virtual environments and advocating for VR as a distinctive terrain for somaesthetics. Building on Gernot Böhme’s analyses of atmosphere, this exploration unpacks ways that artists have engaged the body and space in VR, from creative interface design to multisensory storytelling, and projects that blend physical and virtual environments. Having mapped the confluence of somaesthetics, atmosphere, and immersive virtual space, the paper concludes considering the practical need for cultivating atmospheric competence in VR.","PeriodicalId":256777,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Somaesthetics","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134115471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial: Body, Space, Architecture","authors":"Aurosa Alison","doi":"10.54337/ojs.jos.v8i2.7669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54337/ojs.jos.v8i2.7669","url":null,"abstract":" The relationship between body and architecture is substantial. It can be regarded as the principle according to which the design of habitability is connected to that of the body living and relating in space. The body moves in the surrounding space and, in addition to figuring itself as a biological and natural presence, it is configured to all those meanings that correspond to it. In fact, space, as well as being architectural, can be social, cultural, institutional, and political. And so can the body.\u0000 \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":256777,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Somaesthetics","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133063644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}