ABSTRACT
This chapter frames lessons on recognizing the knots of chronic conflict through considering the spatial nuances of human identity and social relations. The lessons of the chapter are aesthetic as they question the form and meaning of space, calling on perceptual and sensorial strategies to reveal nuanced threads often not seen. Consider that intentionally shifting spatial variables would dramatically alter the physical space and increase or diminish trust between people, encourage or discourage sight lines for people's eyes to connect, soften or enhance power dynamics between them, and add calm or anxiety to any conflict engagement. Recognize how external social space can reflect internal psychic space to connote power, cultural difference, isolation, and separation. The Israel–Gaza war reflects on how listening dynamically to one's experience of space can expand dialogue between parties in chronic conflict. Dynamic Listening is a tool to expand on Active Listening, which is to listen at once to the one speaking, to the spatial environment.
