An Archaeology of Intersp[Æ]c(i)es Anatomies
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Athina Androulidaki
Eleni Danesi
Martin Hochreiter
I am an independent researcher, architect, and somatic practitioner working at the intersection of spatial design, embodied perception, and eco-social imagination. With over 20 years of experience in movement–space relational practices, I explore how bodily awareness, materiality, and affective environments shape how we live, build, and relate.
Movement is the foundation of my spatial practice and architectural thinking. During the year-long residency “Picturing Democracy” by Urban Nation (Berlin, 2022–23), I began developing my current methodology for embodied design, grounded in participatory, transdisciplinary inquiry. It was there that I first shaped BODYMIND Architecture—a concept I originally used as a personal navigation tool—which is now evolving into a mentoring program focused on spatial intelligence, affective neuroscience, and embodied environmental awareness.
In parallel, I am currently establishing Multiscapes Lab, a cross-field research platform that brings together arts, choreography, architectural design, storytelling, and science to explore multispecies entanglement and ecological perception.
Across my work—as a solo artist, community facilitator, and embodiment mentor—I advocate for the cultivation of spatial sensing as a vital skill for personal, collective, and ecological well-being. I prioritize participatory approaches, ensuring that each participant becomes an active co-creator of the experience. My spatial and artistic proposals aim to shift how we perceive our environments, treating space as a living interface between self, others, and the more-than-human world.
In 2024, I presented my research at the Ambiances Congress in Lisbon through the paper “Sensorimotor Integration in Real-Time Making and Thinking in the Universe of Affective Materialities,” highlighting how embodied improvisation and material storytelling can inform inclusive, relational, and regenerative design.
This project proposes a speculative, participatory exploration of future anatomies of being and relating. Set within the imagined territory of the Universe of Affective Materialities (UoAM), participants become archaeologists of multispecies futures, investigating their immediate environment—materials, gestures, atmospheres, species—as if uncovering traces of hybrid anatomies and emergent architectures. Through role-play, somatic activation, movement, and mapping, they collect data from their own body–mind–space interface and reassemble it into embodied artefacts and speculative narratives.
The proposal builds upon my ongoing research in Somatic Architecture, Neuroaffective Matter, and BODYMIND Architecture, which explores how perception, materiality, form, and relationality reveal entanglements—within our lived and designed environments—that can inform the design and regeneration of future spaces. Initiated during my thesis on architectures of symbiosis and further developed through interdisciplinary workshops and movement-based labs, this work centers RhiSOMATiC Design: a research methodology I am currently developing- as a destilation of my 10 years of embodied, academicc and scientific practice- that uses improvisation, spatial awareness, and embodied storytelling to access hidden social narratives and collective imagination.
By connecting body–mind–space relationships, the project generates eco-social narratives rooted in sensory knowledge, contributing to alternative modes of co-existence and future-space-making. First prototyped in the UoAM lab with MKRZ (Linz, 2023), it was presented in the paper “Sensorimotor Integration in Real-Time Making and Thinking in the Universe of Affective Materialities” (Ambiances Congress, Lisbon'24).
Looking ahead, the project will grow as a mobile methodology for residencies, community co-creation, and speculative fieldwork—activating embodied awareness as a design tool for spatial justice and multispecies belonging.