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Through memory / Geography of the 'visually impaired'

Publication at Faculty of Science |
2019

Abstract

This chapter is motivated by an attempt to understand the multisensory experience of space; in other words, an experience that is not primarily based on sight but that is corporeal. Our communication partners move through space without or with very little sight; they learn this movement and they remember it.

Their movement is therefore an endless source of inspiration for thinking about the bodily experience of space and movement using body memory. The chapter explores spatiotemporal movements of visually impaired people while choosing Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception and concept of body schema as a theoretical framework; we are most interested in the extension of body schema into space or the embodiment of space.