ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an analysis that traces the relations between the perception and social-spatial-material constellations that is developed, and offers the term 'envelopment' as a tangible approach to understanding the ambivalences of everyday life in the city. This perspective offers many opportunities for research into the relations between space, materiality, and people, as is witnessed by the numerous publications which make productive use of concepts like Bruno Latour's actants or Andrew Pickering's mangle of practice. The envelopes that are produced in social-material-spatial constellations have a certain thickness, filtering or dampening perceptions more or less strongly. The concept of envelopment is both inherently ambivalent and intended as an image or imagination, not a technical term accurately describing a measurable process. Bohme in his 'new aesthetics' focuses on the role of nature in our life and the possible implications of a phenomenology that takes our relation to nature and the ecological movement into account.
