This book was originated within the research environment Architecture of Embodiment which
inquires into architecture from an enactivist perspective and through aesthetic practices. This
research environment does not primarily aim to formulate answers to its main research
question-how does architecture condition the emergence of sense?-but to provide the adequate
conceptual methodological and communicative conditions to address it. Ultimately it aims to
destabilize its objects of research in order to disclose new intelligibilities of the issues
under inquiry. In this sense Architecture of Embodiment intends to fulfil a fundamental
cognitive function of research through aesthetic practices. The pluralized word architectures
in the title of this book refers to conceptual rather than material constructions relating to
fundamental aspects of architecture and research.Architectures of Embodiment is a constellation
of coexisting autonomous artifacts: texts byAlex Arteaga Mika Elo Ana García Varas Lidia
Gasperoni Jonathan Hale Susanne Hauser Dieter Mersch and Gerard Vilar in dialogue with one
another through comments and comments on the comments. It is conceived as a dialogical research
dispositive: an invitation to participate in an open ended process of research within a growing
ecology of research practices.
