valeria giardino, we are geometric beings: how we use space to think

Intervention de Valeria GIARDINO, (Philosophie, Institut Jean Nicod), dans le cadre du workshop "Memory, Place, and Material Culture", organisé par John SUTTON, 2022-2023 research fellow à l'IAS Paris, Emeritus Professor at Macquarie University, Australia, le 16 et 17 mai 2023.

Présentation

If remembering and feeling, designing and decision-making are situated as well as embodied processes, then cognition can have material and ecological components. Our mental lives may be partly constituted by places – landscapes, built environments, neighbourhoods – and by artifacts. This workshop examines relations between memory, place, and material culture. Our topics include maps and spatial cognition, tools and devices in wayfinding and memory, mental health and the city, difficult places and historically burdened heritage, and spatial disruptions of memory. Speakers draw on evidence from archaeology, architecture, art, neuroscience, performance, philosophy, and sociology, opening up new questions about the nature of bodily and affective orientation as people navigate places and the past together.