City, Architecture and Somaesthetics: a Conversation with Richard Shusterman

In the process of editing some of Richard Shusterman’s essays on architecture and the city for an Italian book, Somaestetica, architettura e città, (2024) a series of conversations took place in the fall of 2023 between the book’s editor, Aurosa Alison, the editor of the collection publishing the book, Andrea Borsari, and Shusterman himself, the founder and principal disseminator of somaesthetics as philosophical approach, as well as a multidisciplinary and applied practice. From these written exchanges in English came the book’s two long interviews, published in full in Italian translation. The essential core of those interviews is presented here for the first time in its original English.