‘our bodily experience of movement is not a particular case of knowledge; it provides us with a way of access to the world and the object, with a Praktognosia, which has to be recognised as original and perhaps as primary.’ Merleau-Ponty, M. (1962). The phenomenology of Perception (C. Smith, Trans.). London: Routledge/Kegan Paul, p 140

In relation to Rockfluid: to explore the lived experience of place . Wanting to explore the place created by interfacing meaning and experience. Merleau-Ponty explored in considerable detail the crucial role of human embodiment and its relation to “being in the world.” And therefore the notion of embodied knowledge (also in research) may be useful as a starting point for a project based on place-making through experience.

Merleau-Ponty inaugurated a school of thought that associates human understanding not with embodied cogitation: he is interested in the body’s implication in what the mind thinks it knows. Merleau-Ponty is the philosopher of embodiment.