Spatial Empathy aims to configure transdisciplinary alliances between urban planning, somatic movement practice and choreographic thinking. Exploring possibilities of embodied mental imagery and perception training, with the aim of building a stronger sense of empathy and attention to and for the built environment, its social, ecological and material networks.
This conceptual proposition views the bodies haptic and kinaesthetic senses as crucial to the development of urban development and mobilities in cities, creating skills to help shape social inclusion and spatial justice through empathy building.
This proposition aims to develop an experiential and creative set of skills to integrate somatic intelligence and relatability into urban planing and design processes; giving new tools for thinking and experiencing the urban as a network of relationships. Forming strategies of how this could aid urban planning in terms of mobility flows, accessibility and social sustainability.