Walking on glass. (August 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Claid, Emilyn
• Is Part Of: Emotion, space and society. Volume 28(2018)
• Page Start: 89
• Page End: 93
• Publication Date: 2018-08
• Subjects: Emotions -- Periodicals; Spatial behavior -- Periodicals; Space perception -- Periodicals; 152.4
• DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2017.07.002
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1755-4586

Abstract

Highlights: Auto-ethnographic writing about a televised marketing event for Tower Bridge glass walkways, 42m above the ground. Explores how sensory awareness of the body's relationship to gravity might help alleviate a fear of heights. Practice-led research informed by observations of people crossing the walkways, with the author's experiences of working with somatic-based falling. A paradoxical proposition for alleviating symptoms of vertigo, working with gravity and a potency of falling.