Bodies in Artifact

Why this lens matters

Bodies prevent societies from becoming abstract: every world is lived through sensation, ability, fatigue, pain, pleasure, aging and care.

Follow-ups

1. What gestures, postures or movements does it encourage?
2. What sensations or emotions cluster around it?
3. Who finds it easy, painful or impossible?
4. What care, healing or training does it require?
5. How does it affect birth, illness, intimacy, aging or death?

Perspective shift

How would an atypical body experience this differently?

Perturbation

What happens when bodies refuse, fail, adapt or change?

Example

Use this while working on the objects, tools, clothing, props and material culture: choose one concrete detail and ask how bodies changes what it means.