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Architecting Bodies by Immersive Gestures, proposes play-legged embodied design thinking to move from the body of architecture to architecting bodies. The approach is coined waying and is the result of bodily exploring the conceptual apparatus of becoming by direct and live acting as to design actionables. Waying proposes for architecting bodies to bodymindly engage with mess, draw on the fragilities of bodyminds and environments and urge movement in the broadest sense. That is to explore multiple forms of embodiment as activating human-environment relations (and their mutual constitutiveness) by means of an ever-immersed bodymind in movement. Waying is therefore simultaneously a movement, a walk, a dance, a performative practice of way making and practice of architecting bodies that does not represent time-space-matter but creates it. Face-to-face, body-to-body, step by step, over and over (on a 1:1 scale). By play-legged embodied design thinking, waying practices the art of relating to what moves and shifts as to attune to what is unexpected, unforeseen and not-yet (heard, formed and known). As a result, Architecting Bodies by Immersive Gestures is less concerned with consolidating and establishing what already is, than practicing the art of anticipatorily relating to what is unexpected and unforeseen, in order to create alternative body-environment relationalities. It offers an embodied environmental awareness – broader than human alone – by enticing environment-sensitive acting, environment-sensitive bodyminding and environment-sensitive becoming.