The Sensitive Body and the Urban Green Space: An Ethnography of the Habib Thameur Garden in Tunis

ABSTRACT: Based on doctoral research questioning the relationship between green spaces and users in Tunis, this article proposes to explore the body as a sensitive interface in the experience of green public space. Far from being neutral or secondary, the urban body engages in a multiplicity of perceptions, emotions, and memories, which participate in the appropriation or rejection of spaces. Through the case study of the Habib Thameur Garden, this article will analyze how sensory dimensions (sounds, smells, textures, rhythms) influence the quality of the relationship between users and their urban environment. Based on qualitative research through seasonal ethnographic observation. The aim will be to show how the constantly evolving body, in its interactions with the living and its needs, can be a lever for reconciliation between the user and nature in the middle of the city. This reflection is part of a sensitive approach to urban design, attentive to the plurality of bodies and their right to a green space lived, felt and inhabited.

KEYWORDS: Green Space, City, Sensitive Body, Appropriation