Block Seminar WiSe 2025/26
Mariana Morais

Body-Space II
spacial gesture of home-making

The Body–Space co-research group explores home-making as an embodied and spatial practice, centering migrant, queer, and racialized experiences. We investigate how home is built and unbuilt through the body, and how sensorial and visual methods can capture socio-spatial gestures.

Last semester, Body–Space traced individual and collective trajectories through collage, drawing, mapping, and oral zines. Our investigations revealed nuanced perceptions of home-making. They wove together, for instance, the emotional labor of building home across places while crafting intimacy; the situated negotiations of gender euphoria and dysphoria after gender-affirming surgery; and the political alliances and social ties that serve as anchors in displacement over time.

This semester, we will co-create a cartography of embodied home-making by curating these nuanced meanings and adding new layers through reflection and practice. We will then produce the Body–Space Zine, experimenting with different stages of zine-making to explore multimodal ways of producing and sharing knowledge.

Photo: © Body-Space archive (Mateo Zubieta)

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