ABSTRACT
Medial experiences are accomplished by removing bodily techniques and styles from their current execution, and by constituting themselves in a world of communication media. An intermediate world is created that comes between the act of communication and what is communicated, that is, the action and the deed. The experiential worlds of children and adolescents manifest themselves against the background of a mediatized lifeworld that requires a high degree of self-dramatization and strategies of self-empowerment to deal with media, institutions, public space. There are indications that the social sciences, media and cultural studies, urban art research, and so forth are highly interested in specific spatial concepts and practices, since spatial diversity is more than just the result of architectural decisions or social locations and positioning. Martha Muchow’s observations show that the spatial experiences of children occur in a variety of ways mediated by the senses and the body, such as gainsaying, active appropriation, transformation, and reliving spaces and objects.
