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Performative (Eco)cohabitations: foldings of the body and ruptures of the landscape

Sdraka Alexandra, Kontorouda Aikaterini

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The initial assumption of the research is that the body and the landscape are no longer inert objects of study but elements that are shaped through a network of mutually interrelated parameters. The aim of this research is to review the way in which we perceive the body and the landscape, concepts that shape and reshape space. Familiar, dualistic reductions of nature/culture, internal/external, subject/object, are questioned. In this context, representative considerations are examined that highlight the transition of physicality and territorial experience from relationships of stability to fields of dynamic performance. In the mediated experience of the post-anthropocene era we are living in, performative ecology contrasts, through tangible daily rituals and repetitive practices, a new way of re-familiarising ourselves with our relationship with space. This interaction between body, space, landscape, and ecology invites us to redefine the design tools for shaping a way of cohabiting the body, space, and soil that is open to diversity (living and non-living). The research project examines, through two sections, the theoretical mapping of phenomenological and materialistic approaches to embodied spatial experience and the reading of landscape as a field of ecological and geological interactions. The aim is to highlight the interdependence of the complex parameters that shape the contemporary coexistence of human and non-human ecosystems.

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