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This thesis challenges the notion of materiality of the corporeal body; by shifting perception of the body and its identity, from its surface and form, to its sensorial experience. It experiments with the superimposition of the body, projection, and architecture to explore questions of identity. The optic - haptic projections on the body and the architectural objects, experiment with the visual, tactile and proprioceptive senses. Exploring intersubjective interactions, which evoke embodied experiences and sensations, thereby impelling one to rethink materiality, identity, and subjectivity as it pertains to the body.One of the central ideas of this thesis, is to explore how material and immaterial environments change perception of identity, through spatial performances based on orientation and proprioceptive movements. It takes an alternative approach, by addressing the relationship between surfaces, form and interactive spatial systems, from a sensorial standpoint. These spatial systems, change shape to accommodate scenarios of power and control, that the body experiences. How might these interactive, spatial systems influence bodies and identities, to act and exist? How might these intersubjective interactions, inform our understanding of embodied identities in terms of materiality? Plasticity? Plasticity is defined as a material that loses its original form but retains traces of its deformation. Likewise, in terms of performativity, the body and identity, are recognized and conceptualized as plastic entities, susceptible to transformation.(Sparrow, 2015). How might concepts of plasticity and performativity, inform how our body and identity is viewed and performed, in terms of bodily sensation? Sensation plays a key role in the construction of identity. By reworking concepts of materiality and embodiment, the body is viewed as a sensing object/subject. Embodied identity is a dynamic process formed and deformed by sensory experiences. The body is conceived as a sensing object/subject within the architectural frame and optic - haptic experience of projections that construct an intimate rather than a distant experience of observation. Similar to a cinematic screen, the 'object' embodies the projection; its flesh or surface absorbs and reflects light. Within the physical space of architecture, optic - haptic projections are perceived and actualized on the sensing body by the viewer, enticing an embodied, intersubjective response within bodies thereby affecting their proprioceptive and spatial orientation.(Marks,2007). Bodies and identities are mutually formed by taking a phenomenological approach, I explore the relationship between form of the body (gender), flesh (skin tone), spatiality, sensation and emotions. 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Exploring intersubjective interactions, which evoke embodied experiences and sensations, thereby impelling one to rethink materiality, identity, and subjectivity as it pertains to the body.One of the central ideas of this thesis, is to explore how material and immaterial environments change perception of identity, through spatial performances based on orientation and proprioceptive movements. It takes an alternative approach, by addressing the relationship between surfaces, form and interactive spatial systems, from a sensorial standpoint. These spatial systems, change shape to accommodate scenarios of power and control, that the body experiences. How might these interactive, spatial systems influence bodies and identities, to act and exist? How might these intersubjective interactions, inform our understanding of embodied identities in terms of materiality? Plasticity? Plasticity is defined as a material that loses its original form but retains traces of its deformation. Likewise, in terms of performativity, the body and identity, are recognized and conceptualized as plastic entities, susceptible to transformation.(Sparrow, 2015). How might concepts of plasticity and performativity, inform how our body and identity is viewed and performed, in terms of bodily sensation? Sensation plays a key role in the construction of identity. By reworking concepts of materiality and embodiment, the body is viewed as a sensing object/subject. Embodied identity is a dynamic process formed and deformed by sensory experiences. The body is conceived as a sensing object/subject within the architectural frame and optic - haptic experience of projections that construct an intimate rather than a distant experience of observation. Similar to a cinematic screen, the 'object' embodies the projection; its flesh or surface absorbs and reflects light. Within the physical space of architecture, optic - haptic projections are perceived and actualized on the sensing body by the viewer, enticing an embodied, intersubjective response within bodies thereby affecting their proprioceptive and spatial orientation.(Marks,2007). Bodies and identities are mutually formed by taking a phenomenological approach, I explore the relationship between form of the body (gender), flesh (skin tone), spatiality, sensation and emotions. Through this exploration, I attempt to ground notions of the incorporeal body and identity, outside the socio-spatial and socio-cultural boundaries.","**To request an accessible version of the file(s) associated with this item, contact library@buffalo.edu. 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