This book was conceived as a joint research effort with visual artist Maike Hemmers, which emerged from the relationship of two entities we started to call '^engawa' — our non-fixed space in between.


Her visual journal and narrative texts investigating ^{the spatial concept of ma (emptiness)} inherent in Japanese culture enfolds my reader: collected texts with incident thoughts on somatic experiences and soft transitions.


The ^reader serves as my first autonomous research on aesthetics shared within art and architecture, which I developed as a tool to help organise my broad interest in the ^{bodily apprehension of space}. Up until now this meant collecting various spatial theories and artistic antecedents that I would like to incorporate into my own spatial practice. The reader was evoked by my ^{critical modelwork} on legalisation of fake material usage as a nostalgic vessel, and focuses rather on invisible aspects of spatial design such as transience and ageing.