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TRACING URBAN COPORALITIES THROUGH RUNNING AND LISTENING

The urban environment can be a staging ground for bodies and experimentation, both from the perspective of making space through experience but also creatively approaching the conception of bodies. Therefore, in this paper we examine closely the continuum between body and city as a methodology to access critical cartographies of everyday life.Departing from ethnographic fieldwork in Barcelona, we reflect on the making of bodies in movement in the city to examine the counter-lines of the continuum body-city and the emergence of interconnected and fluid corporealities. We analyse the navigational patterns of runners and their experience of the city’s spaces, subverting its design. Then contrast it with the embodied experience of the urban that a soundscape hunter has, encouraging all of the sensorium to soak up the surrounding space, creatively approaching the construction of corporeal-spatial identities.We propose the continuum as an analytical tool to discuss the relationship between city and body as fluid and interconnected. In this sense, the soundscape hunter invites the body and city to merge through the moving sensorium, stressing the inbetweeness of urban experience.We argue that a corporeal awareness is key in the conception and implementation of the body-city continuum where subjectivities are in constant becoming.  With this paper, we open up a perspective where the body and the city are continually intertwined in a mutually configurative process. 

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