Research of our dynamic sense of movement from a phenomenological viewpoint

2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K01536
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Developmental mechanisms and the body works
• Research Institution: Tokyo Polytechnic University
• Principal Investigator: Kakinuma Miho 東京工芸大学, 芸術学部, 講師 (10401481)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Keywords: 身体性哲学 / 身体教育学 / 現象学 / 運動感覚 / 身体知 / 動きの質 / わざ言語 / エフォート

Outline of Final Research Achievements

It is not easy to put our physical knowledge about human movement into words or convert it into data and communicate to others with it. However we are faced with the necessity to do in various scenes of life, for example, in the classes of physical education at school, or in some occupations requiring the high level skills inherited from their predecessors. In this research, I will take up two representative ways of describing our dynamic sense of movement, namely the quality of our movements:"The Languages of Craft (Waza-Gengo)" proposed by Kumiko Ikuta, and Rudolf Laban's "effort." And through our learning experiment of contemporary dance, I discuss how they make influence on our body movements, especially on its qualitative aspects. Thus the research leads the more effective communications of our physical knowledge with words.

Free Research Field

哲学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

人間の身体の動き（movement）の質的側面は、記述や伝達が最も困難なところであるが、われわれは言語の適切な使用によって、それを表現・伝達することが可能である。この研究における実験により、言語が身体のmovementと密接な（おそらくは非常に直接的な）関係を有している可能性が示された。これは、言語の適切な使用が人間の「わざ」を伝承する場合に有効であること示すとともに、概念あるいは精神的なものとされる言語の異なる側面（＝身体的側面）にあらためて光を当てることが可能となった。