The plant has a place in the thinking of the future of our urbanity because the densification of the current city will generate a greater proximity between housing and urban dwellers, some sensible proxémie. The role of plants in the sense of…
This lecture intends to show how thought about ambiances allows to make more complex the sociology of action and to identify some political stakes in urban developments. The sociology of action's credit is to link the issue of space with the practice…
Public spaces that the pedestrian is found to browse last fifteen years tend all to a minimal materiality expression. While destabilizing, these areas are to be strong proposals for new public space and urban experience of passersby. How do we lose…
The Second International Congress on Ambiances looks at a broad range of ambiances, including those of an architectural, urban, social, aesthetic, political, technical, environmental and pedagogical nature. Rather than seeking to formally define what…
Architecture is now constantly confronted with the exploration of its materiality. So, we must put forward here the importance of the technological reification of architecture as an artificial system - expressed by the creation of temporalities of…
The irruption of concepts such as ecology and sustainability in the world of architecture is generating a new language to understand our building's ambiances. Once again, the separation of structural and environmental issues advocated by modern…
Abstract : We proposes to examine three key issues of urbanity identified during the creation of an Atlas of public spaces - Saint-Étienne 2007-2012 : livability, mobility and citizenship. Built on the capture of common practices and manners, moods…
The aim of this article is to emphasize the way that the ambiance contributes to the dynamics of the affective relationships with urban places. The ideal-type figures of the evolution of affective relationships with places allow us to bringing to…
Listening to Louis Khan (1996), spaces are sensations, and sensations are ambiances. Working with the case of domestic architecture, this essay tries to understand the construction of ambiance. The aim is to show step by step how space interacts with…
This article deals with observations of neighbors' parties within contemporary residential buildings to Paris. These meeting constitute one extraordinary moment for inhabitants. It's possible for them to derogate from the daily rules and to explore…
This paper proposes an articulation of the two research fields that usually deal with the sensorial and sensible issue and its link with the urban: landscape and ambiance. It presents the characteristics that historically separated the two concepts…
The soundscape representation seems to encircle a real challenge as on the one hand, noise maps enable a very limited reading and management of the urban sound environment quality, and on the other hand, its reduction to the graphic element endangers…
The Napoleonic Empire turned Paris around from an administrative to an industrial city. A new atmosphere created by sulfuric oxide smells took possession of the Right Bank with sulfuric acid and coal, while mercury fumes and chloride, used…
Focused on different sound milieux in India, this paper examines public sites (residential areas, bus stations, Hindu temples, markets, etc.) as spaces for social interactions, cultivating different attention modalities and shaping specific social…
Cities are patchworks of alive locations, temporal hubs of activity where society continuously negotiates itself with nature and the architectural artefact. Places are bundles of memories, movements, changes and repetitions. On the whole, rhythmic…
Walking is a relevant entry point and a good indicator of evolutions in urban society. The walker cannot be reduced to a pedestrian. Could walking become a new value and a collective urban intelligence for mobility and how can public space remain…
The paper argues the case for considering urban density as a social fact from social representations. The study of metropolitan inner suburbs seems to show that social representations contribute significantly to its latest attractiveness. The…
This contribution presents the way we use the concept of ambience and the method of "commented walk" with the intention of comprehending the expectations that two ecological neighborhood users have of the space they live in. We call these…
This paper proposes the artwork as an exploratory tool and means of expression for revealing the nature of a place permitting the enrichment of the project development process in urban design. We represent two sites in Montreal. The first is the old…
The theme of urban atmospheres allows the constitution of a "sensible gaze" in migration studies. In the cities are developed new forms of atmosphere sharings. Migrant populations seem to play an important role in that process and suggest other…
