Full Description
Designing Spaces for Inclusive Movement introduces spatiality as a practical framework for examining and redesigning movement environments so they foster inclusion, belonging, justice, and meaningful participation across physical education, sport, recreation, and community settings.
This book equips readers with the conceptual tools and practical strategies needed to understand how movement spaces are created, experienced, and transformed. Drawing on critical spatial theory, design thinking, and real-world case studies, it explores topics including Thirdspace, proxemics, chronemics, reflexivity, intersectionality, policy, and placemaking. Each chapter combines theory with reflective activities, discussion questions, practitioner examples, and design-oriented applications that help readers analyze existing environments and develop more inclusive, equitable, and human-centered movement experiences.
This book is written for graduate students, advanced undergraduate students, scholars, teacher educators, and practitioners in physical education, kinesiology, sport studies, recreation, health promotion, physical culture, urban education, and related disciplines. It will also interest community leaders, policymakers, and professionals seeking to design more inclusive movement environments.
Contents
1. Designing Spaces for Inclusive Movement: An Introduction to Spatiality 2. Constructing Movement Spaces: How Knowledge Shapes Participation 3. Disrupting Spatial Norms: Questioning Taken-for-Granted Movement Practices 4. Proxemics: Understanding Human Relationships Through Space 5. Chronemics: Time, Rhythm, and Movement Cultures 6. Reflexivity and Positionality: Seeing Ourselves in Movement Spaces 7. Intersectionality and Inclusive Movement 8. Policy, Power, and Advocacy: Designing Equitable Movement Futures 9. Reclamation, Reconciliation, and Placemaking 10. The Spatial Imagination: Toward Praxis and Liberation
