Methodological Reflection and Conclusion
摘要
Architecture as a corporeal-spatial and (im)material medium of the social requires an empirical approach—this is the fundamental position of this work, which already considers and takes seriously the corporeality and corporality of the human being as a basic anthropological premise in its approach, and seeks to make it as accessible as possible for the social sciences. Empirically supported by the author’s own sociological and corporeal-phenomenological surveys and research findings, the methodological reflection and conclusion section of the book reflects on the developed corporeal-phenomenological survey instruments and unfolds (further) methodological and methodical considerations. If, following Helmuth Plessner, one understands the human being as an eccentrically positioned being, then self-observation and felt-bodily awareness as corporeal competencies oscillate between structural self-concealment and openness to the world. The methodological path of a visual-drawing approach to the two interior spaces of the library buildings studied was an attempt, based on a selectively unifying perspective of Schmitz and Plessner, to engage with corporeal and synesthetic spatial experiences in and through the image, in the sense of a corporeal expressive possibility and a specific form of perception as part of felt-bodily communication, and thereby to think both the eccentric position of the human being and the sensing, pathic “felt-body” from Schmitz’s perspective in an integrative manner. The drawings, according to the guiding idea, provide insights into the self-world relationships of the human being as an eccentrically positioned being, and at the same time, they open up a corporeal access to atmospheric and emotion-related spaces of perception and experience.