Contemporary American societies adapt architecture and the city to everyday demands with the intention of living in safe, comfortable, and healthy places; however, habitable space should be conceived beyond the functional or the geometric, engaging with a phenomenological experience through perceptual, sensory, and corporeal interaction with the built environment (residential, urban, religious, funerary, hospital, recreational, corporate, and other environments inhabited by the anthropic factor). In addition, the relevance of cognitive studies and habitable space converge in the field of neuro-inhabiting, promoting knowledge about the impact of built space on our brain, emotions, and mental health from a transdisciplinary perspective. On the other hand, the eidos refers to the intelligible form, appearance, or essence that architecture and the city observe through phenomenology, leaving visual appearance as not exclusive, and granting an experiential and multisensory experience in which human consciousness, the body, and the mind merge with the environment. This symposium invites the presentation of works that address spatiality based on the advantages offered by studies on the relationship between the inhabitant and habitable space and the discourse of the body, emotions, sensations, mind, and senses, from different disciplinary approaches, such as: architecture, urbanism, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, economics, urban planning, visual arts, and all those that may be considered relevant to the study of the anthropic factor and dwelling.
It is also important to note that the elements of study may be any that are considered habitable spaces (interior or exterior). Analyses of consumer behavior in the areas of marketing, experimentation with animal models, or educational evaluation through cognitive processes are not of interest to this symposium. The symposium seeks contributions of reflections on the production or intervention of built space based on corporeal or multisensory approaches.
