Our experience of architecture reaches far beyond the visual and entails our entire body and all our senses. Contrary to how it is often taught in architecture schools, spatial perception is not predominantly visual, structural, or logical. It is somatic, embodied, and all encompassing.

This workshop invites you to shift your attention back to what your body knows.
You will become aware of how spatial perception is embodied, holistic, and multi-sensory. You will explore the repertory of embodied memory you carry within yourself. By making explicit how your own body constantly registers, remembers, and evaluates spaces, you will also unravel the principles behind how spaces affect our bodies, speak to our senses and impact our experience.

This knowledge is fundamental to be able to design spaces that speak to the body – and to anticipate their experiencing in the design-process. In order to create spaces that resonate with our embodied being, we need to start from what the body knows, feels, senses, and remembers.

This workshop enables you to become aware of this often-overlooked dimension of perception and to consciously access your embodied spatial memory.

In this workshop you will retrace and reflect on your own embodied spatial memories and discover why certain spatial situations evoke specific sensations and emotional responses. By refining your perception, you will increase your sensitivity to how space affects the body – an essential competence for anyone who designs spaces for human beings, because perception forms the prerequisite for conception.

This workshop helps you to increase your awareness of embodied and multi-sensory spatial perception and is your opportunity to access a refined perceptual foundation for future architectural and spatial design. Grounded in my intensive research and doctorate on the relevance of embodied knowledge in architecture, I will provide you a deeper understanding of the reciprocal relationship between body and space. This is your space to comprehend how architecture and space are perceived – and how this knowledge can help you to design spaces that support wellbeing and evoke bodily experience.

At the core of this workshop is the perception of architecture and space – and the question how to refine and activate it on an embodied and multi-sensory level.