ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author provides the artists and scholars who shared and shaped the author thinking about sharing and shaping space. Artistic interpretations show how different reading strategies can arise around bodies in life versus art, even similarly shaped bodies read in ways that can reveal "more about the observer than the observed". The implied ecology and sustainability in the concept echoes other artistic processes. The variability of people bodies offers a generative source to rethink people inhabited spaces and the shifting dynamics of aesthetics and ecology. The word environment itself assumes that humans lie at the centre of nature, not to neglect a "veer ecology" that "acknowledges a world full of in/human and in/organic things that will suddenly, and unpredictably, go off course". Hansel Bauman's design of DeafSpace grows out of this interrelationship among senses, the built environment and cultural identity, and attends to space in terms of proximity, mobility, sensory reach, light and colour, and acoustics.
