Embodied Mapping
Back to people overviewEmbodied Mapping describes the ways in which spaces are understood not only intellectually, but through the physical experience of moving through them. Whereas Cognitive Mapping concerns the mental organisation of spatial knowledge, Embodied Mapping emphasises the body’s role in navigation: orientation, movement, effort, touch, scale, habit, awareness of risk, and sensory perception.
Image: Map showing the route of pundit Nain Singh. Royal Geographical Society (1877). ©Ex Carta
