In an era of fast-pace urbanisation processes, urban public space design gives little attention to the quality of the “space of the body” or the “space of bodily inter-action”. The thesis addresses such macro-scale question through the elaboration of a micro-scale tool. It focuses on the implementation of a methodological approach to support designers to “read” and design space from a more “human-centred” perspective.
Considering human spatial experience as a result of sensorial perceptions channelled through bodily movement, the moving body becomes carrier of implicit spatial knowledge and, therefore, subject of investigation. The dissertation overcomes the static, visual, formal, aesthetic understanding of architecture and embeds the moving body in design principles in order to make spatial dynamics visible. Interpreting space from a “human” perspective potentially leads to new considerations that otherwise would remained implicit and unexplored.
