Reading “Bodies between Space and Design”

Cristina Bianchetti and Mirko Zardini discuss their last book “Leggendo Corpi tra Spazio e Progetto” (Mimesis, 2020).

The body is a channel of transit between space and design: the medium through which design manipulates space. This is the thesis of the book, which develops a critical reading of urban design by observing the way it affects the body. In doing so, it acquires a dimension that goes beyond the individual body, whether sick, healthy, open, measured, scrutinised, liberated or emancipated. It acquires a public, political dimension.