REIMAGINING THE SPACE.BODY

How can liberatory literary practices like écriture féminine and the poetics of relation be translated into creative methodologies for liberatory spatial practice? How could this translation lead to the deconstruction and reimagination of spatial narrative structures?

REIMAGINING THE SPACE.BODY is an Architectural Association Visiting School and interdisciplinary workshop (coming summer 2026) where participants use a relational feminine framework to explore embodied spatial storytelling through the deconstruction and reimagination of spatial narratives in city of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Participants will engage with and subvert the Colonial City’s spatial organization, hierarchical structures, symbols, and narratives through collective imagining and speculation in space.

The program uses an experimental methodology to explore embodied spatial storytelling as a language that reimagines the spacebody: a reciprocally-generative act between body and space. It combines Hélène Cixous's écriture féminine—a speculative literary practice conceived to reimagine narratives, syntax, and language from the perspective of an empowered Other—, and Édouard Glissant’s decolonial concept of errantry in “The Poetics of Relation”, a form of focused wandering that resists colonial structuring of space and experience through openness to the unexpected, the shifting, and the relational.

The program branches off into initiatives, or chapters, with local cultural and education institutions, such as Centro Cultural España and PUCMM. This webpage documents the progress of these initiatives chronologically. For more information, click here.

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