Ambiances

How do ambiances shape our sensory, social, and built environments? This book offers interdisciplinary perspectives to understand the profound ways in which ambiances redefine our experiences and perceptions of ordinary spaces.

Autorentext

Jean-Paul Thibaud is a sociologist and a senior CNRS researcher at the CRESSON research Lab (UMR 1563 Ambiances, Architectures, Urbanities).

Nicolas Tixier is an architect and a professor at the Grenoble National School of Architecture. He is a researcher at the CRESSON Research Lab (UMR 1563 Ambiances, Architectures, Urbanities).

David Zerbib is a philosopher. Scientific coordinator of Research at the Annecy Alpes School of Art (ESAAA), he is also a Lecturer in Philosophy of Art at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD - HES-SO).

Didier Tallagrand is an artist. He has been teaching at the Annecy Alpes School of Art since 2002.

Inhalt

0.Introduction - Ambiances: A Sensitivity to Ordinary Situations. Part One - Ambiances, sources and resources. 1.A brief archaeology of the notion of ambiance. 2.The sensory environment and architectural ambiances. 3.The ambiance waltz. Intermezzo 1: Dider Tallagrand. Part Two - Ambiances, perspectives and positionings. 4.The Thickness of the Present: A brief ethno-phenomenological reflection. 5.Perceiving: Ambiances, places, and connections. 6.Phenomenology and Ontology of Ambiances Some Clarifications. 7.Milieu, ambiance, and atmosphere: New perspectives on experience. Intermezzo 2: Dider Tallagrand. Part Three - Ambiances, dialogues and resonances. 8.Exercises in ambiances: A journey across definitions for a multi-perspectivist anthropology of atmospheres. 9.Returning to atmosphere. 10.Ambiance as a concept of francophone cultural geography: Challenges and prospects. 11.Affective Inflationism and Atmospheric Competence. Intermezzo 3: Dider Tallagrand. Part Four - Ambiances, sensitivity and culture. 12.Towards a therapy of ambiances. 13.The futures of our contemporary sensitivity. 14.Sonic ambiances, intellectual ambiances: Thoreau and Ives. 15.From urban ambiances to cinema: a few reflections based on Siegfried Kracauer. Intermezzo 4: Dider Tallagrand. Part Five - Ambiances, architecture and place. 16.Towards a modal conception of architectural ambiances. 17.Atmospheres in formation: Affective thresholds, immersive fields, and active boundaries. 18.Ambiance's affordances / Common architectures. 19.In pursuit of the aesthetics of atmospheres: With and beyond Böhme. Intermezzo 5: Dider Tallagrand. Part Six - Ambiances, city and urban space. 20.The ambiances are the message: Transects, projects, and urban situations. 21.Atmospheres in the Metapolitan Anthropocene. 22.The developer over-investment in ambiances. 23.Ambiances of thought: A contribution to the analysis of aesthetic cognition. Intermezzo 6: Dider Tallagrand.