Dr. Sara Coscarelli, a teaching researcher and coordinator of the University Master's Degree in Space Design (MUDE) at EINA-UAB, participated in the international SEYTA 2025 symposium with a presentation that invites us to rethink the way we listen: "Haptic Sensitivity in the Revaluation of Listening."
Her intervention, within the framework of the symposium of the Spanish Society of Aesthetics and Theory of Arts, SEyTA, held on June 19 in Barcelona, highlighted the importance of recovering a full, embodied, and transformative listening. Coscarelli argued that listening is not just about perceiving sounds, but an ethical, sensory, and spatial experience that deeply connects us with others and with our environment.
Referencing thinkers such as Walter Ong, Martin Jay, and Juhani Pallasmaa, the presentation provided a historical overview of sensory perception to demonstrate how modern visual culture has displaced the value of other senses, such as touch and hearing. In the face of this ocular hegemony, she advocated for haptic sensitivity as a way to reconnect with space and the world through all senses.
A presentation that, from the practice and reflection of design, invites us to "listen with the whole body" and to feel space again not only with our eyes but also with our skin, movement, and presence.
This transversal and sensory approach to space is also at the core of the University Master's Degree in Space Design (MUDE) at EINA-UAB, where design is conceived as a practice that listens, interprets, and transforms environments through the body, perception, and experience.
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Quan escoltar és sentir