Moving Spaces and Places: Interdisciplinary Essays on Transformative Movements through Space, Place, and Time (Emerald Interdisciplinary Connexions)

Moving Spaces and Places is about movement as a transformative experience, showing how movement changes affect and percept of spaces and place and solidifies space into meaningful places. The cross-disciplinary contributions in this collection – brought together by aesthetics and artistic practices and embodied and participatory research approaches – illustrate how the physical act of moving and the psychological experience of movement are inextricably interwoven.

Traversing the knowledge domains and practices of culture, art, pedagogy, geography, architecture, and city planning, the chapters reveal the diversity of the study of movement in relation to space and place; as a way of setting things in motion, as a psychological act of agency, and as a way to reflect, instantiate, and eventually reconcile―and even heal―relationships between people, spaces, and places.

This multi-layered investigation of movement takes temporal, physical, and psychological transformation as its conceptual core, and appeals to a myriad of readers ranging from architectural practitioners and urban planners to activists, artists and geographers.

Beitske Boonstra is Assistant Professor in Urban Governance at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, The Netherlands. Beitske is Academic Lead within the Resilient Delta Initiative and Coordinator of the Knowledge Centre Livable Neighborhoods Rotterdam.

Teresa Cutler-Broyles is Lecturer in Film and Cultural Theory at the University of New Mexico, USA, and visiting professor of Food Studies in Perugia, Italy. She writes both fiction and academic non-fiction.  

Stefano Rozzoni holds a joint PhD degree in Transcultural Studies in Humanities from the University of Bergamo, Italy, and in Literary and Cultural Studies from Justus Liebig Universität Gießen, Germany.