Physical comminglings: Body, habit, and space transformed into place

This article considers the ways in which the habitual, bodily dimension of human experience works as one kind of tacit connection between self and world-between people's need to act and move, and the physical spaces and places in which those actions and movements take place. On the one hand, I argue that the body is an active intentionality in relation to the physical and spatial environment. On the other hand, I argue that the physical and spatial environment-in being made one way rather than another, particularly in terms of pathway layout-plays a potential role in where people go and how many anti what kind of physical interactions they have with other people in their immediate place. In short, there is a mutual support at file level of body and world that, in terms of habit, allows the physical environment to be both a taken for-granted support and a source of interpersonal stimulation and exchange.