Somaesthetic Design: The Experiencing Body and the Dynamics of Time

By Stephen Neely and Michael Arnold Mages

Over the past twenty-five years, design practice has expanded from making objects to shaping experiences that unfold in-time. As this expansion has accelerated, designers have gained powerful new tools - but often without a shared language for shaping embodied experience. Somaesthetic Design: The Experiencing Body and the Dynamics of Time responds by focusing on the experiencing body as a key source of design knowledge. Drawing from embodied practices and performance traditions, Michael Arnold Mages and Stephen Neely give designers a shared vocabulary and framework for understanding, crafting, and evaluating lived experience as it is felt and sustained in time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3837681289
• ISBN13: 9783837681284
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Transcript Publishing
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"