ABSTRACT
In the formal discipline of project management wants are invariably translated into what was famously coined by Martin Barnes in 1972 as the 'iron triangle' of time, cost and performance. In research into large construction projects in over 20 nations, Bent Flyvbjerg observed, nine out of ten projects have cost overruns. Most significantly, Flyvbjerg noted, 'overruns have been constant for the seventy years for which data are available, indicating that no improvements in estimating and managing costs have been made over time'. Hermeneutic phenomenology emphasises that our prejudices actually provide the basis for our interpretation rather than constrain it. The felt sense is a description of the physical sensation of a change or shift in our bodily recognition of our feelings. The usefulness of the felt sense to both psychotherapy and general research is the complicity of body and language.
