Exploring a space with our body is a strong experience; it is not like looking at a pic- ture of a space or listening to a detailed description of it. Being somewhere physically is a fundamental element involved in our unique and personal perception of a room. However, I often feel constrained by social and cultural rules in my bodily explora- tion of spaces. My aim throughout the project is to engage people into sharing their feelings and experiences about space, in order to better understand the relationship between the human body and the architecture in western societies. Through an experimental process I am articulating and reflecting upon a design meth- od to dialogue and engage with a large range of people. By using some tools from the field of interior architecture, I am building physical artefacts used as a means to challenge the bodily engagement of the users. The analysis of the interaction between the user and the artefacts, constituted the basis for me to elaborate on the two design proposals. The process also gives me the opportunity to reflect on my influence and responsibility as an interior architect into promoting, challenging and inviting people to more bodily engagement in space. / <p>The full thesis contains copyrighted material which has been removed in the published version</p>

This thesis explores the potential of queer embodiment through the experiences of transgendered people. After discussing the importance of researching the body, often left out of academic enquiry, I engage with theoretical frames that radically reconfigure concepts of subjectivity providing the means to reveal the innovative forms of embodiment that participants embrace. Within these frameworks the mind/body division is disrupted and reconfigured to demonstrate that these are not separate entities rather the mind exists in the body as does the body in the mind. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari's version of the becoming body, I locate the body as a vibrant multiplicity of particles capable of infinite connections as opposed to a separated and contained entity. Through approaching embodiment as a never ending process of becoming I look to the way in which spatial settings such as the family have a major influence on the way in which bodies are formulated. In these spaces, I contend, bodies are directed and regulated to conform to dominant understandings of being. Such directing I argue creates 'straight' bodies/space restricting the presence of queer bodies and the disruption they embody. Extending this spatial investigation I look to the way in which open spaces are straight spaces and how the dynamics of such spaces create the queer body as hyper-visible. Exploring queer as a spatial term I suggest that the queer body exists at an angle to the normative straight line creating new and challenging ways of living. A major theme that runs throughout this thesis is the intercorporeal nature of bodies. In developing this concept I demonstrate the generosity of queer bodies and their radical disruption of the distinction between maleness and femaleness. In doing so I explore how bodies are spatially sexed according to the myth of two-sexes, disrupting such a limited view I demonstrate how queer bodies have the potential to move beyond the boundaries of recognizable identity/bodily categorizes and anatomical understandings and embrace a space of intermezzo/ in-betweeness.

This thesis examines both contemporary and historical meanings surrounding human body FAT in order to illuminate, chiefly, the forces that have rendered it both an omnipresent and negative entity in Western societies. It explores the apparent contradiction that we must exist amidst hyper-consumptive capitalism yet display no bodily evidence of such consumption. Along with an investigation into alternative bodily conceptions to that of the hegemonic West, a discourse analysis is employed to challenge the key assumptions that underpin the current 'obesity epidemic' and its ensuing 'war on obesity' so that body FAT may be configured differently. It is shown that, because bodily conceptions and ideals are complex cultural constructions, body FAT, as a substance, is not the scourge it is presently portrayed, but rather a substance that signifies most of what consumer society despises and fears. It is argued that the 'war on obesity' has not been successful, and will continue to be ineffective, because the focus should not be on losing body FAT but rather on the conditions of poverty that generate overall ill-health. It is concluded that such a 'war', if sustained in its current fashion, will only serve to further malign the situations of those deemed 'overweight and obese'.

The main goal of this diploma thesis was to summarize crimes against health in accordance to Chapter I Title II of the Criminal Code. Firstly I focused on history of the crimes against health. As these crimes were present during the whole human being, my goal was to describe the main historical milestones from the beggining of the Czech state until the publication of the present Criminal Code. In another chapter I described crimes against health from the criminological point of view. I defined individual types of offenders of these crimes, their motivation, causation why are they commiting crimes and last but not least the possible way how to prevent these crimes. Third chapter contains description of the main elements in crimes against health. There are four obligatory signs of every criminal offence. The object, the subjective point, the objective point and the perpetrator. Main part of this work is devoted to the analysis of the particular crimes according to Chapter I Title II of the Criminal Code. I devided this part systematicly into two chapters - intentional crimes and crimes caused by negligance. Chapter about the crimes caused by negligance describes more detailed crimes against health caused by road accidents, doctors and sportsman. There is an extensive practise of the courts in this...

Meu objetivo nesta pesquisa é entender a noção de \"corpo próprio\" pensada por Merleau-Ponty nas suas primeiras obras. Trata-se de uma noção \"cara\" ao filósofo, levando-o a questionar e a dialogar tanto com a filosofia quanto com a psicologia, fisiologia e a psicanálise de sua época. De qualquer modo, é a partir da descrição deste conceito que veremos como o filósofo pôde sugerir uma subjetividade sem plena determinação de si, que nos remete a um sujeito corporal em relação com o mundo, com o outro e consigo mesmo. Desta descrição, irei seguir um desdobramento específico deste conceito: a \"imagem corporal\". Pretendo mostrar como a interpretação merleau-pontyana, nos cursos de Sorbonne, do \"estádio do espelho\" (proposto por Lacan), pode \"ampliar\" o questionamento em torno da problemática da relação com o outro. / My purpose on this research is the understanding of the notion of the \"own-body\" thought by Merleau-Ponty on his first papers. It deals with a costly notion for the philosopher, leading him to question and to dialog both with philosophy and psychology as well as with physiology and psychoanalysis of his time. Neverthless, from the description of this concept, we will understand how the philosopher could sugest a subjectivity without a broad determination of itself, that guides us towards a bodily subject in relation with the world, the other and itself. From this description, I will follow a particular development of this concept: the \"bodily image\". I intend to show how Merleau-Ponty\'s interpretation, in Sorbonne\'s courses, of the \"mirror stage\" (suggested by Lacan), could \"amplify\" the question around the matter of the relationship with the other.

Meu objetivo nesta pesquisa é entender a noção de \"corpo próprio\" pensada por Merleau-Ponty nas suas primeiras obras. Trata-se de uma noção \"cara\" ao filósofo, levando-o a questionar e a dialogar tanto com a filosofia quanto com a psicologia, fisiologia e a psicanálise de sua época. De qualquer modo, é a partir da descrição deste conceito que veremos como o filósofo pôde sugerir uma subjetividade sem plena determinação de si, que nos remete a um sujeito corporal em relação com o mundo, com o outro e consigo mesmo. Desta descrição, irei seguir um desdobramento específico deste conceito: a \"imagem corporal\". Pretendo mostrar como a interpretação merleau-pontyana, nos cursos de Sorbonne, do \"estádio do espelho\" (proposto por Lacan), pode \"ampliar\" o questionamento em torno da problemática da relação com o outro. / My purpose on this research is the understanding of the notion of the \"own-body\" thought by Merleau-Ponty on his first papers. It deals with a costly notion for the philosopher, leading him to question and to dialog both with philosophy and psychology as well as with physiology and psychoanalysis of his time. Neverthless, from the description of this concept, we will understand how the philosopher could sugest a subjectivity without a broad determination of itself, that guides us towards a bodily subject in relation with the world, the other and itself. From this description, I will follow a particular development of this concept: the \"bodily image\". I intend to show how Merleau-Ponty\'s interpretation, in Sorbonne\'s courses, of the \"mirror stage\" (suggested by Lacan), could \"amplify\" the question around the matter of the relationship with the other.

A pesquisa se insere na interface da Fisioterapia e Saúde Mental. Buscou-se descrever e analisar a experiência do “Grupo Corpo" enquanto estratégia de atendimento de abordagem corporal, incluindo técnicas fisioterápicas e dança, face ao processo de reabilitação de pessoas com transtorno mental grave e de longa duração, realizada no Centro de Reabilitação e Hospital Dia (CRHD) do Instituto de Psiquiatria do Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo. Os sujeitos dessa pesquisa foram dez pacientes matriculados no Instituto de Psiquiatria do Hospital das Clinicas, pertencentes ao programa de reabilitação do CRHD, participantes do Grupo Corpo durante o ano de 2004 e dez profissionais que atenderam os pacientes nos diferentes grupos do CRHD. Dados sobre o Grupo Corpo foram colhidos a partir registros efetuados pelos terapeutas nos prontuários dos pacientes sujeitos do estudo, após cada sessão do grupo; registros sobre as sensações corporais escritos por cada participante no início e no final da sessão; entrevistas semi-estruturadas realizadas pela pesquisadora com cada um dos pacientes; e, com cada um dos profissionais pertencentes aos diferentes grupos de atendimento dos quais o paciente faz parte. Como referenciais teóricos, apresentam-se: a origem e trajetória da fisioterapia ao longo do tempo, como ela configurou seu núcleo profissional, por meio do destaque dos momentos importantes dos seus modos de conceber o corpo, a saúde e a doença e seus modos de intervenção para questionar os modelos fisioterápicos hegemônicos de intervenção no corpo das pessoas focalizando aquelas acometidas de transtornos mentais; a articulação da história da fisioterapia com a história da psiquiatria; as diferentes concepções de abordagem do corpo, da perspectiva de filósofos e de acordo com abordagens não convencionais, como a dança e a música. Os resultados indicam que o Grupo Corpo desenvolveu-se de acordo com necessidades expressas pelos pacientes, prevalecendo a demanda dos pacientes sobre o roteiro pretendido. A análise da compreensão dos pacientes sobre o Grupo Corpo foi feita a partir de quatro casos, sob o formato de pequenas histórias que, segundo suas características singulares, representaram as vivências dos pacientes no Grupo Corpo. Essa análise nos mostrou que o Grupo Corpo contribuiu para o desenvolvimento pessoal dos pacientes, com efeitos motores e não motores, que contribuíram para o incremento da contratualidade e exercício de autonomia desses pacientes. Os profissionais entrevistados enfatizaram a necessidade de um trabalho corporal para os pacientes em reabilitação, consideraram que o Grupo Corpo potencializou os trabalhos da equipe, preencheu uma lacuna no Programa de Reabilitação. Discutiu-se o papel de uma “fisioterapia ampliada" e de uma “clinica do inusitado": uma forma de ver e tratar pessoas portadoras de transtorno mental grave e de longa duração, em que “a ênfase não é mais colocada no processo de “cura" mas no projeto de “invenção de saúde" (Rotelli, 1990, p. 30) / The research is inserted in the Physiotherapy and Mental Health interface. It tried to describe and analyze the “Grupo Corpo’s experience" as strategy to assist the bodily approach, including physiotherapeutic techniques and dance, facing the process to rehabilitate people with severe and long lasting mental disorder, accomplished at Centro de Reabilitação e Hospital Dia (CRHD) of the Instituto de Psiquiatria do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo. The individuals of this research were ten patients enrolled at Instituto de Psiquiatria do Hospital das Clínicas, belonging to CRHD’s rehabilitation program, participants of Grupo Corpo during 2004, and ten professionals who assisted the patients in the different groups from CRHD.Data on Grupo Corpo were collected from records accomplished by therapists in the patients’ medical registers, after each show of the group: records on bodily sensations written by each participant at the beginning and at the end of the show; semi-structured interviews accomplished by the researcher with each patient, and with each professional belonging to the different assistance groups of which the patient is part of. As theoretical references: the physiotherapy’s origin and path as time goes by; how it has configured its professional core through the distinction of important moments from its manners of conceiving body, health and disease, and its intervention ways to question the hegemonic physiotherapist models of intervention in the people’s bodies focusing the ones accessed by mental disorders; the articulation of the physiotherapy history with the psychiatry history; the different conceptions of the body approaching, of the philosophers’ perspective and according to unconventional approaches as dance and music.The results reveal that Grupo Corpo has been developed according to the needs expressed by the patients, being prevailed the patients’ demand on the intended path. The analysis of the patients’ understanding on Grupo Corpo was accomplished based on four cases, presented as brief histories that, according to their unique characteristics, they represent the patients’ experiences in the Grupo Corpo. This analysis has shown us that Grupo Corpo has contributed to the patients’ personal development, with motor and non-motor effects, which aided to improve the contracture and independence exercise to patients. The professionals who were interviewed emphasized the need of a bodily work to patients during rehabilitation stage, and they considered that Grupo Corpo has empowered the work group, fulfilling the Rehabilitation Program. The role of a “broaden phisiotherapy" and an “untold clinic" was discussed: a way to see and treat people suffering with severe and long lasting mental disorder in which “the emphasis does not focus the “cure" process, but the “health invention" project (Rotelli, 1990,p. 30)

A pesquisa se insere na interface da Fisioterapia e Saúde Mental. Buscou-se descrever e analisar a experiência do “Grupo Corpo” enquanto estratégia de atendimento de abordagem corporal, incluindo técnicas fisioterápicas e dança, face ao processo de reabilitação de pessoas com transtorno mental grave e de longa duração, realizada no Centro de Reabilitação e Hospital Dia (CRHD) do Instituto de Psiquiatria do Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo. Os sujeitos dessa pesquisa foram dez pacientes matriculados no Instituto de Psiquiatria do Hospital das Clinicas, pertencentes ao programa de reabilitação do CRHD, participantes do Grupo Corpo durante o ano de 2004 e dez profissionais que atenderam os pacientes nos diferentes grupos do CRHD. Dados sobre o Grupo Corpo foram colhidos a partir registros efetuados pelos terapeutas nos prontuários dos pacientes sujeitos do estudo, após cada sessão do grupo; registros sobre as sensações corporais escritos por cada participante no início e no final da sessão; entrevistas semi-estruturadas realizadas pela pesquisadora com cada um dos pacientes; e, com cada um dos profissionais pertencentes aos diferentes grupos de atendimento dos quais o paciente faz parte. Como referenciais teóricos, apresentam-se: a origem e trajetória da fisioterapia ao longo do tempo, como ela configurou seu núcleo profissional, por meio do destaque dos momentos importantes dos seus modos de conceber o corpo, a saúde e a doença e seus modos de intervenção para questionar os modelos fisioterápicos hegemônicos de intervenção no corpo das pessoas focalizando aquelas acometidas de transtornos mentais; a articulação da história da fisioterapia com a história da psiquiatria; as diferentes concepções de abordagem do corpo, da perspectiva de filósofos e de acordo com abordagens não convencionais, como a dança e a música. Os resultados indicam que o Grupo Corpo desenvolveu-se de acordo com necessidades expressas pelos pacientes, prevalecendo a demanda dos pacientes sobre o roteiro pretendido. A análise da compreensão dos pacientes sobre o Grupo Corpo foi feita a partir de quatro casos, sob o formato de pequenas histórias que, segundo suas características singulares, representaram as vivências dos pacientes no Grupo Corpo. Essa análise nos mostrou que o Grupo Corpo contribuiu para o desenvolvimento pessoal dos pacientes, com efeitos motores e não motores, que contribuíram para o incremento da contratualidade e exercício de autonomia desses pacientes. Os profissionais entrevistados enfatizaram a necessidade de um trabalho corporal para os pacientes em reabilitação, consideraram que o Grupo Corpo potencializou os trabalhos da equipe, preencheu uma lacuna no Programa de Reabilitação. Discutiu-se o papel de uma “fisioterapia ampliada” e de uma “clinica do inusitado”: uma forma de ver e tratar pessoas portadoras de transtorno mental grave e de longa duração, em que “a ênfase não é mais colocada no processo de “cura” mas no projeto de “invenção de saúde” (Rotelli, 1990, p. 30) / The research is inserted in the Physiotherapy and Mental Health interface. It tried to describe and analyze the “Grupo Corpo’s experience” as strategy to assist the bodily approach, including physiotherapeutic techniques and dance, facing the process to rehabilitate people with severe and long lasting mental disorder, accomplished at Centro de Reabilitação e Hospital Dia (CRHD) of the Instituto de Psiquiatria do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo. The individuals of this research were ten patients enrolled at Instituto de Psiquiatria do Hospital das Clínicas, belonging to CRHD’s rehabilitation program, participants of Grupo Corpo during 2004, and ten professionals who assisted the patients in the different groups from CRHD.Data on Grupo Corpo were collected from records accomplished by therapists in the patients’ medical registers, after each show of the group: records on bodily sensations written by each participant at the beginning and at the end of the show; semi-structured interviews accomplished by the researcher with each patient, and with each professional belonging to the different assistance groups of which the patient is part of. As theoretical references: the physiotherapy’s origin and path as time goes by; how it has configured its professional core through the distinction of important moments from its manners of conceiving body, health and disease, and its intervention ways to question the hegemonic physiotherapist models of intervention in the people’s bodies focusing the ones accessed by mental disorders; the articulation of the physiotherapy history with the psychiatry history; the different conceptions of the body approaching, of the philosophers’ perspective and according to unconventional approaches as dance and music.The results reveal that Grupo Corpo has been developed according to the needs expressed by the patients, being prevailed the patients’ demand on the intended path. The analysis of the patients’ understanding on Grupo Corpo was accomplished based on four cases, presented as brief histories that, according to their unique characteristics, they represent the patients’ experiences in the Grupo Corpo. This analysis has shown us that Grupo Corpo has contributed to the patients’ personal development, with motor and non-motor effects, which aided to improve the contracture and independence exercise to patients. The professionals who were interviewed emphasized the need of a bodily work to patients during rehabilitation stage, and they considered that Grupo Corpo has empowered the work group, fulfilling the Rehabilitation Program. The role of a “broaden phisiotherapy” and an “untold clinic” was discussed: a way to see and treat people suffering with severe and long lasting mental disorder in which “the emphasis does not focus the “cure” process, but the “health invention” project (Rotelli, 1990,p. 30)

This thesis investigates the experience of bodily movement as the basis of social interaction. The design concept is based on the exploration of “unfocused interaction” among visitors to a public library (library of Malmo university).This thesis is framed with relevance to the “Soma Design program,” as proposed by Kristina Höök, and it expands Höök’s foundation of attending to bodily senses by paying attention to bodily movement. Moreover, this thesis looks explicitly at the experience of using body movement as the most basic form of human communication in social interaction.Imagining the world in which using body movement is an effective alternative to oral communication motivated me to formulate and select the methodological approach in this thesis project. Research Through Design has been utilizing as the primary process to explore the subject. This concept emerged from the participants’ experiences in exploratory workshops based on somaesthetic techniques focusing on body movement with the help of the body storming method and the experience of using body movement as a tool/medium for creating social interaction. The final concept is presented in this thesis through the Wizard of Oz prototype.The final concept focuses on tow keys areas: 1: individuals’ awareness of their body movement. 2: Embodied interaction and using technology along with natural body movement to create social interaction.

Since the 1980s, ethnographers have increasingly explored the ways that dead bodies and body parts may have significant and dynamic afterlives by virtue of their psychological, social, political, and economic potential [...]