Spatial Gestures of Home-making: A Sensory Approach to Urban Research

This three-hour workshop explores how the body can become a method for understanding home, housing and urban life.
About this Event

This three-hour workshop explores how the body can become a method for understanding home, housing and urban life. Drawing on the BodySpace project at TU Berlin, the session introduces relational approaches to space and sensory, participatory and body-based methods for capturing embodied experience.

Participants will take part in a short lecture followed by practical exercises exploring their own experiences of home-making in London. Through embodied mapping, collective reflection and storytelling, we will examine the everyday gestures through which people create familiarity, belonging, care and temporary forms of stability across the city.

The workshop is designed for participants interested in urban research, housing, sensory methods and embodied approaches to space. Attendees can expect a combination of conceptual input, hands-on experimentation and collective discussion, with a focus on how individual experiences can contribute to shared understandings of home and the city.

Registration requirement

To register for this workshp please submit a short paragraph about you and why you are interested to participate. It is limited to 20 places.

Speaker Biographies

Dr Mariana Morais is an urban researcher with a PhD from the Technical University of Berlin, leading the co-research group BodySpace. At the intersection of urban planning and social sciences, her research addresses socio-ecological transformation through the negotiation of everyday inhabitation, drawing on ethnographic, participatory and visual methods.

Dr Bruna Ferreira Montuori is an urban researcher and multidisciplinary designer from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with a PhD in Architecture from the Royal College of Art. Currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit (UCL), her research explores spatial justice, insurgent citizenship, gender and decoloniality, drawing on long-term partnerships with local organisations in Brazil and East Africa.