The aim of this chapter is to highlight the main phenomenological features of lived space, i.e., space as it is experienced in various intentional modes, primarily perception, but also other non-perceptual cognitive activities, such as spatial memory (e.g., trying to remember where something is or how a room is arranged) or spatial reasoning (e.g., itinerary planning: thinking about the way to go from A to B). A general overview of the most important phenomenological accounts is offered with a focus on the following topics: the relation between bodily skills (and more generally motricity, i.e., the capacity to move) and lived space; the role of body materiality: how the possession of a physical body with material properties such as impenetrability and heaviness structures the experience of space; the role that the anticipation of possibilities plays in the enacting and organization of lived space; and finally the role of sociality and the impact of our body “visibility,” i.e., the fact that we can be perceived by others. The objective of this synthesis within the context of this book is to better understand the experience of space in visually impaired people. Based on this phenomenological account, this chapter will, as a result, offer a series of reflections on the particularities of the space experienced by blind people.

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The Phenomenological Structure of Lived Space: A General Overview and Some Reflections on Mobility

  • Gunnar Declerck,
  • Charles Lenay

摘要

The aim of this chapter is to highlight the main phenomenological features of lived space, i.e., space as it is experienced in various intentional modes, primarily perception, but also other non-perceptual cognitive activities, such as spatial memory (e.g., trying to remember where something is or how a room is arranged) or spatial reasoning (e.g., itinerary planning: thinking about the way to go from A to B). A general overview of the most important phenomenological accounts is offered with a focus on the following topics: the relation between bodily skills (and more generally motricity, i.e., the capacity to move) and lived space; the role of body materiality: how the possession of a physical body with material properties such as impenetrability and heaviness structures the experience of space; the role that the anticipation of possibilities plays in the enacting and organization of lived space; and finally the role of sociality and the impact of our body “visibility,” i.e., the fact that we can be perceived by others. The objective of this synthesis within the context of this book is to better understand the experience of space in visually impaired people. Based on this phenomenological account, this chapter will, as a result, offer a series of reflections on the particularities of the space experienced by blind people.