SHARED VULNERABILITY THEORETICAL ANALYSIS

Vulnerability, as theorized by Paul Harrison (2008), speaks for our embedded awareness and receptivity of corporeal life, continuously exposed to what exceeds its abilities to absorb (p. 423). Therefore, to Harrison, vulnerability is the means for awareness. By expressing this belief, came a psychological relief, as the sharing of vulnerability could find solutions to reach some sense of creaturely life and shared living

Pallasmaa (2012) in his book “The Eyes of the Skin” acknowledges the work of great philosophers such as Marleau Ponty, citing his parallelism of the body in the world like the heart in the organism’ therefore exteriorizing his belief of human experiences being integrated through the body (p. 20) Pallasmaa then goes on to express how, Bloomer and Moore believe that what Is missing from architecture are the transactions between the body and the environment (p. 21).

David Harvey (2000) inks this belief back to shared vulnerability when arguing that “with the body as the measure of all things, we are stuck in our own sensory world and in its limitations” (p. 86) making us unable to acquire the sensitivity to share vulnerability.