| The International Ambiances Network aims at structuring and developing the research field of architectural and urban ambiances. It wishes to promote the sensory domain in the questioning and design of lived space. This sensitive approach of the built environment involves all the senses (sound, light, odors, touch, heat, etc.).
Such a network favors multisensoriality and pluridisciplinarity (human and social sciences ; architecture and urban planning ; engineering and applied physics). It is open to a wide variety of profiles and includes research activities as well as design, teaching or artistic ones.
A new Website for the Network www.ambiances.net
Since March 2013, the International Ambiances Network features a new website. Clearer and more convenient, the new website incorporates the archived contents of the former site (congresses, research seminars, newsletters, editorials) and makes it easier to explore. It also offers new opportunities for interaction...
Seminar February 25-27th, 2013, London
Many authors, from the second half of the nineteenth century onwards, have struggled to implement a sensitive approach to urban modernity. How to be attentive to changes in the urban world and the minute variations of the ordinary? From the aesthetic thought of Simmel to Goffman’s ecological approach, the philosophies of everydayness in anthropology, from Laplantine to Kracauer and White, to Wittgenstein, Bégout, and Rancière, work has described, translated and called into question the role of ambiance and atmosphere in the construction of urban life...
| | | The International Ambiances Network currently hosts 471 individual members and 25 teams representative of many countries.
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| | | Launch of ‘Ambiances’
The Ambiances Journal is a by-product of the International Ambiances Network and is intended to present research works in the domain of sensory environment, architecture and urban space. The aim is to put to the test how we live in places and conceive of the contemporary world with a sensory perspective... Publication of Ambiances urbaines en partage - Pour une écologie sociale de la ville sensible
Texts of: Luis Antonio Baptista, Hanène Ben Slama, Paola Berenstein Jacques, Samuel Bordreuil, Marc Crunelle, Cristiane Rose Duarte, Fabiana Dultra Britto, Gleice Azambuja Elali, Rainer Kazig, Anne Jarrigeon, Jacques Lolive, Damien Masson, Virginie Milliot, Cintia Okamura, Beatriz Santos de Oliveira, Robert Moses Pechman, Carolina Rodriguez-Alcalá, Jean-Paul Thibaud, Rachel Thomas. Publication of Quasi-cose. La realtà dei sentimenti
What are quasi-things? First of all atmospheres, that is, feelings poured out into space and that we usually cannot change, but also pain, whose aggressiveness is at the same time a guarantee of identity of the subject... | |
