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Body–Space: Spatial gestures of home-making

Body Space co-research group von Mariana Morais

Body–Space explores home not as a fixed location, but as a relational and contested practice, shaped by movement, displacement, transition, and anchoring. Drawing from decolonial theory, queer studies, and the sociology of space, the project attends to the ways in which home is made and unmade through the textures of daily life, approached via embodied experience. Through zine-making, collage, and mapping, this co-research unfolded across biographical and material dimensions to trace how everyday gestures shape the subjective experience of home-making. The visual format served not only to capture stories, but also to invite others to reflect on the boundaries of co-producing knowledge.  As a collective outcome, Body–Space reveals that home is built and undone in fragments: in political alliances, in music and emotional labor after migration, in negotiations of euphoria and dysphoria within the bedroom. Home-making emerges in gestures of care and resistance performed within and against dominant spatial orders. The research forms a type of embodied cartography, which that holds memory, conflict, and affection as interwoven practices of recognition.