This book was originated within the research environment Architecture of
Embodiment, which inquires into architecture from an enactivist
perspective and through aesthetic practices. This research environment
does not primarily aim to formulate answers to its main research
question--how does architecture condition the emergence of sense?--but
to provide the adequate conceptual, methodological, and communicative
conditions to address it. Ultimately, it aims to destabilize its objects
of research in order to disclose new intelligibilities of the issues
under inquiry. In this sense, Architecture of Embodiment, as an
environment, intends to fulfill a fundamental cognitive function of
research through aesthetic practices.
Architectures of Embodiment is a constellation of coexisting
autonomous artifacts: texts by Alex Arteaga, Mika Elo, Ana García Varas,
Lidia Gasperoni, Jonathan Hale, Susanne Hauser, Dieter Mersch and Gerard
Vilar in dialogue with one another through comments and comments on the
comments. It is conceived as a dialogical research dispositive: an
invitation to participate in an open-ended process of research within a
growing ecology of research practices.
