Corporeality
Corporeality, or the bodily dimension of an individual, must not be
dismissed in a project implementation context, due to the fact that all
three modes of existence appear inseparably linked: they can never be
independent of each other.
While situation is the ‘game venue’ in which corporeality, but also
consciousness (including worldview), is located and dependent on, corporeality
establishes the physical side of the existence of a human
being and simultaneously makes situationality and corporeality possible.
Consciousness, thus, steers the course of one’s physical existence in a
situation in terms of understanding based on meanings, but is, of course,
dependent on the physical processes of corporeality. In more ordinary
terms, what we think is dependent both on the knowledge derived from
the situation in which we are placed and the nervous system, brain and
other corporeal functions
Learning and knowledge sharing, concepts that are discussed later in
this book, are both situation sensitive and embodied in the individual
(e.g. Maturana and Varela, 1992). This means in terms of the HCM
that knowledge is ‘located’ in an individual’s worldview in the form of
meanings and thus refers to objects in the situation of an individual. In
addition, knowledge is at the same time – in terms of the brain, nervous
system, etc. – also a feature of corporeality or the body. In the case of
manual skills, this bodily connection is self-evident. Indeed, all the three
modes of existence are inseparably linked.
Because the project-based companies and individual projects within
them can be seen as knowledge intensive units, which can be approached
in terms of the quality and quantity of knowledge, in the rest of the
book we utilize the HCM in order to gaining a better understanding of
knowledge, as well as learning and knowledge sharing in a project work
context.