Bodies (In)form: Reconceptualising Embodied Design as Encounters (2026)
This practice-based PhD responds to a growing shift in experience design towards approaches that engage bodies—both designers’ and participants’—as central to design practice. Drawing on feminist post-phenomenology, particularly the work of Gail Weiss and Sara Ahmed, the research proposes encounters as a strong concept that articulates embodiment as relational, intercorporeal, and situated.