Abstract

Do we truly inhabit space? This is the question which this paper attempts to address. Our journey starts with an understanding of Cartesian space at the core of which one finds what Charles Taylor has called a disengaged stance from the world; stance which is at the heart of the "epistemological hydra" which permeates even our maps. Thereupon an attempt is made to break new ground following some of the main results provided by the Heideggerian existential analytic which relates Dasein, Being-in-the-world, places and regions. In this sense Heidegger enigmatically points out that "space is not in the subject, nor is the world in space". We end our passage highlighting what the recovery of a corporeal spatiality married to its environment might mean for an architecture which opens up regions that we can better inhabit. The better we are situated the better we might understand our current situation.