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        The Ambiances Network
        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.).
        The International Ambiances 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.

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        6th Cresson' Winter School - Sonic Transect: Questioning the territories of energy by sound
        Graduate School of Architecture of Grenoble, from Monday 22nd to Friday 26th January 2018

        Questioning the notion of comfort in the urban environment focuses attention on our relationship with the inhabited spaces. In this thematic school, the notion of comfort will be investigated in the so-called “innovative” districts targeting energy transition, as is the case of the Presqu’Île in Grenoble. By identifying the various amenities of the territory, and by capturing what reveals the standardized comfort (seeking a homogenization of sensation) and what reveals the sensory comfort (searching, on the contrary, a variation of sensation), this will open a new reflection that questions the relationship between a sensory diagnosis capable of carrying prospective design intentions and an urban development model that is still evolving.

        Deadline for registration: December 25th 2017

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        Staging Atmospheres – Theatre and the Atmospheric Turn
        International Conference and Workshop, 8th & 9th December 2017 - Senate House (8th December), Arts 1 QMUL (9th December), London, UK

        This two-day conference and workshop presents an interdisciplinary interrogation of the place of theatre in the understanding of ”atmosphere”. Within the current interdisciplinary atmospheric turn, theatre has presented itself as an heuristic paradigm in which the social, material and political elements of atmosphere are thought to resonate – albeit in an idealised manner. How stable is this paradigm as it departs from the specificities and exigencies of theatrical practice? What might the extended mode and model of ”performance” with which theatre studies has conducted a sustained enquiry over more than half a century, add to other disciplinary studies of ”atmosphere”?

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        4th GDRI Seminar Translating Ambiances - Professional translations
        Milan, Politecnico di Milano, 12-14 June 2017

        The CNRS International Research Group (GDRI) was initiated by the International Ambiances Network to explore the issue of ambiances in translation. The aim of the 4th seminar is to look at how the field of ambiances is transformed and hybridized as soon as it comes into contact with design practice and development constraints. We shall draw on the experience of each team to put into perspective the various contexts, applications and uses of the ambiance concept. This form of translation will deliberately focus on a forward-looking approach, in search of new modus operandi for design.
        By focusing on operations designed to clarify, explore, experiment and look to the future, we can assess the possibility of a pragmatist attitude to ambiances. In this respect our purpose is not so much to take stock of existing learning or to stop at a single model for making sense of ambiance, but rather to put to the test a field of research and action that is in the process of taking shape

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        Living modern architectural heritage in the age of sustainability: Ambiances and quality of use
        May 29th - June, 1st 2017. International workshop & Seminar. Graduate School of Architecture of Bordeaux, France

        Ambiances are at the heart of this research and workshop, as a way to reveal how this modern heritage is understood/approached and its peculiarities in times of energy transition.
         Conferences and field work will tend to investigate the users’ perceptions and representations of several modern residential sites as well as to sharpen the students’ ability to design an architectural and urban project taking into account environmental and social aspects.
        The workshop is an opportunity for the students to confront their knowledge and practice to alterity – be it cultural (American – French) or based on their status (professional, apprentice, daily user of the sites…).

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        MOBIANCE 3 - Sharing Cities, Ambient Commons and Urban Futures
        27 Feb Seminar - 28 Feb-March 1,2,3 Workshop, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

        In the 2017 edition, the aim of the Mobiance 3 seminar and workshop will be to study the relationship between the sharing society paradigm, new mobile technologies and how these are changing the way we interact and design cities. The event is, in fact, intended as an opportunity for exploring novel ideas and for envisioning future urban scenarios for the facilitation and development of the sharing society in cities.

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        Missing maps of urban violence: counter-mapping cities under occupation. Mapping the sensitive memories of political violence
        Université de Cergy-Pontoise - Maison Internationale de la Recherche - January 19-20, 2017

        The seminar brings together researchers in social sciences, cartographers and human rights activists / NGOs. The purpose is to reflect on the challenges of mapping urban violence and the memories of violence which are most of the time conflicting. The workshop seeks to discuss the possibility and purposes of mapping political violence from a variety of data collected on the ground, among populations, by actors and activists from non-governmental organizations, Human rights organization and by researchers. The workshop will propose a comparative approach of two cities which can be considered in a state of war: Srinagar, in Kashmir and Hebron, in Palestine.

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        Ambiances, demain | Ambiances, tomorrow | Ατμόσφαιρες, Αύριο
        3rd International Congress on Ambiances, Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece, 21-24 September 2016

        While the first Congress held in Grenoble in 2008 was all about forging a community and taking stock of research and practices in creating architectural and urban ambiances, the second Congress held in Montreal in 2012 was able to point up their practical – and even praxeological dimensions, be they of an architectural, urban, social, aesthetic, artistic, political, technical, environmental or pedagogical nature.

        The Third Congress will be used to circumscribe the notion of ambiance (or atmosphere) in a dynamic prospective and demonstrate how it can become an operator in transforming our habitats, cities and societies. So, the future of ambiances can be analysed according to a three-fold perspective in terms of its pragmatic, theoretical and prospective dimensions.

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        Launch of the CNRS GDRI Program “Translating Ambiances”,  2014-2017
        First Seminar of the GDRI, Graduate School of Architecture of Nantes, France, 9-12 September 2014

        This CNRS International Research Group (GDRI) was initiated by the International Ambiances Network to explore the issue of ambiances in translation. The word ‘translation’ should be taken in the broad sense of the term, and not reduced to a strictly language-based meaning, though this aspect is obviously present in the project, indeed a key component...

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        New book: Atmosphere and Aesthetics. A Plural Perspective

        Edited by T. Griffero and M. Tedeschini

        Palgrave, macmillan, 2019.


        This book provides a presentation of the concept of “atmosphere” in the realm of aesthetics. An “atmosphere” is meant to be an emotional space. Such idea of “atmosphere” has been more and more subsumed by human and social sciences in the last twenty years, thereby becoming a technical notion [...]


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        Call for Abstracts: The Atmospheric Approach to Architecture in the Anthropocene.

        Nordic Journal of Architectural Research


        Deadline: Feb. 20, 2020


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        CfP Uncommon Senses III: The Future of the Senses


        Conference sponsored by the Centre for Sensory Studies, Concordia University, in Montreal, May 1st-4th, 2020.
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        Places, Affordances, Atmospheres. A Pathic Aesthetics.


        New book by T. Griffero  published in Ambiances, Atmospheres and Sensory Experience of Space series at Routledge.

        This book offers a diverse understanding and practical approach towards the growing area of atmosphere research, in the context of philosophy, geography and architecture.


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        CfP Uncommon Senses III: The Future of the Senses


        Conference sponsored by the Centre for Sensory Studies, Concordia University, in Montreal, May 1st-4th, 2020.
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        Places, Affordances, Atmospheres. A Pathic Aesthetics.


        New book by T. Griffero  published in Ambiances, Atmospheres and Sensory Experience of Space series at Routledge.

        This book offers a diverse understanding and practical approach towards the growing area of atmosphere research, in the context of philosophy, geography and architecture.


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        Ambiances/Atmospheres. Testing a new paradigm.

        A new book on Atmospheres edited by Tonino Griffero and Giampiero Moretti.

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        EAEA14 - 14th European Architectural Envisioning Conference
        Nantes School of Architecture, Nantes, September 3rd-6th 2018.

        How to envision ambiances? Representing (past, present and future) atmospheres for architecture and the built environment.

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        Changing landscapes / Changing the landscapes of terror and threat: materialities, bodies, ambiances, elements
        Session+Rountable at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference, 28 August - 31 August 2018, Cardiff University

        The session brings attention to new spacings of terror and terror threat that go beyond the representational, state-centred, and territorial framings of national security, risk and resilience, geopolitics and identity studies. Katz’s work on security, performativity and the everyday urban environment (Katz 2007) is updated here and the research question and analysis pushed further into the everyday visceral materialities, bodily experiences, elemental aspects and ambiances/atmospheres that compose the changing landscapes of terror and terror threat.

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        The Anxious City Festival
        External link opens in new tab or windowRotterdam August 31 - September 2

        As more and more people suffer from stress and anxiety disorders in urban areas, we've in wonder in which way characteristics of the built environment influences emotional responses and behaviours. Can space design be used as a therapeutic tool to improve populations' mental health? To explore those questions, we have invited an eclectic The program includes two-day conference where researchers, practitioners from different fields and city makers to better understand urban environments and contemporary lifestyles influence population's stress level and present innovative design approaches that could improve mental health in cities. In addition to the talks, there will also be round table discussions, workshops and artistic performances.

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        Call for papers - "Bring back my Neighborhood"
        External link opens in new tab or windowSIEF2019 14th Congress - Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 14-17 April

        The interplay of tourism and heritage is a powerful medium affecting cultural change in urban centres. This panel seeks to analyse its impact on the urban environment, focusing on the concept of "ambiance" to explore the regeneration and sensory transformation of contemporary touristic places.

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        First call for applications related to the hosting and organization of our quadrennial meeting: Ambiances2020
        The 4th international congress on Ambiances

        The International Ambiances Network opens up the possibility for its members to organize this major event, and will provide help and financial support to its realization.

        The Call for applications + all necessary details are online.

        Applications deadline: June 30th 2018, 13:00 (GMT)

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        Call for Papers - Experimenting on ambiance with architecture
        Special issue of Ambiances, International Journal of Sensory Environment, Architecture and Urban Space, coordinated by Grégoire Chelkoff

        In this issue we shall be investigating experimenting on ambiances, or rather through ambiances, in the sense that the aim is not just to describe existing or given situations as such (with the possibility that they may include a certain type of experience), but also to set up the modalities of “making ambiance”, in order to derive elements with a bearing on theory, method or technique. So our purpose is to confront basic concepts and tools upstream from the project properly speaking, by only approaching the latter in part, or even outside its strict normative framework. How can research on architectural and urban ambiances come to grips with experimentation? How can ambiance phenomena be explored in greater depth or discovered through spatial experimentation? Or how can such experimentation be built or conceptualized on the basis of assumptions regarding ambiance?

        Deadline for the submission of full papers is 1st March 2018.

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        Appel à contributions - Sensibilités, émotions et relations
        Revue Nouvelles Perspectives en Sciences Sociales, Vol. 14, n°1 : parution novembre 2018.

        À travers cet appel à contributions, la revue NPSS invite les chercheurs à penser les affects,  non plus simplement comme un type de relation parmi d’autres, ou seulement comme un « supplément d’âme » à la relation, mais en considérant qu’ils sont la qualité de la relation, qu’ils en sont indissociables, et qu’à ce titre ils constituent à la fois un matériau et un outil permettant de comprendre et d’analyser les dynamiques qui fondent le social.

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        Call for Papers - Staging Atmospheres – Theatre and the Atmospheric Turn
        Two-day conference and workshop, Friday 8th and Saturday 9th December 2017, Department of Drama at Queen Mary University of London

        Staging Atmospheres presents an interdisciplinary interrogation of the place of theatre in the understanding of ‘atmosphere’. Within the current interdisciplinary atmospheric turn, theatre has presented itself as an heuristic paradigm in which the social, material and political elements of atmosphere are thought to resonate – albeit in an idealised manner. ‘Theatre’ has been adopted as a paradigm of the site and operation of ‘atmosphere’ by philosophers and architectural theorists from Vitruvius to Gernot Böhme.

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        Christian Julmi, Situations and atmospheres in organizations. A (new) phenomenology of being-in-the-organization
        Mimesis International, Milan-Udine 2017 - 154 p. Series “Atmospheric Spaces”

        Although situations and atmospheres are omnipresent in organizations and have a significant influence on the behaviour of the members of the organization, they are only seldom regarded as relevant research subjects in management and organization research and systematically investigated. This book enters unknown territory in that it elevates situations and atmospheres to the most fundamental and everyday features of being-in-the-organization and investigates their development dynamics systematically. The new phenomenology of the German philosopher Hermann Schmitz, and critical supplements from his follower, Guido Rappe, serve as the theoretical foundation of the reflections. Human corporeality and subjectivity are at the centre of the reflections.

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        Barbara Erwine, Creating Sensory Spaces. The Architecture of the Invisible
        Routledge 2017 - 276 pages, 86 Color Illustrations

        Creating Sensory Spaces celebrates spaces enlivened with sensual richness and provides you with the knowledge and tools necessary to create them. Drawing on numerous built case studies in ten countries and illustrated with over 85 full color images, the book presents a new framework for the design of sensory spaces including light, color, temperature, smell, sound, and touch. Bridging across disciplines of architecture, engineering, phenomenology and perceptual psychology, this book informs the design of buildings and neighborhoods that reclaim the role of the body and all the senses in creating memorable experiences of place and belonging.

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        Gernot Boehme, Critique of Aesthetic Capitalism
        Mimesis International, Milan-Udine 2017 - 108 p. New series “Atmospheric Spaces”

        Aesthetic Economy is a theory of the recent development of capitalism in our national economies. Basic needs are easily satisfied and, as a result, most commodities are no longer intended for consumption, but for the staging of our lives. That is, they are used to produce atmospheres. Applications of the theory are found wherever staging is performed: in commodity aesthetics, in marketing, as well as in the sphere of production. As to technology, we find a turn from useful to joyful technology. And the technology of entertainment has become a huge part of the general economy. Similarly, a further horizon of Aesthetic Economy is to be seen in the aestheticization of politics, the staging of sporting events and the management of culture.

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        Symposium series: The Body, the Mind and the City
        Between the 7th of June and the 5th of July, 2017, POST-OFFICE, Delftsestraat 9, Rotterdam

        Healing Places has the pleasure to invite you to The Body, the Mind and the City, a series of 5 symposiums that will take place between June and July 2017 at Post-Office. Together with spatial designers, scientists, tech developers, artists and designers, we will explore the relationship between the human body and physical space. These transdisciplinary discussions will also investigate how space design and technology can affect our physiological and psychological condition, change our sensory perception and behaviors.

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        Toward an Anthropology of Ambient Sound. Edited by Christine Guillebaud
        Routledge, London, 2017, 240 p.

        This volume approaches the issue of ambient sound through the ethnographic exploration of different cultural contexts including Italy, India, Egypt, France, Ethiopia, Scotland, Spain, Portugal, and Japan. It examines social, religious, and aesthetic conceptions of sound environments, what types of action or agency are attributed to them, and what bodies of knowledge exist concerning them. Contributors shed new light on these sensory environments by focusing not only on their form and internal dynamics, but also on their wider social and cultural environment.

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        Tonino Griffero new book - Quasi-Things. The Paradigm of Atmospheres
        SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy

        In this book, Tonino Griffero introduces and analyzes an ontological category he terms “quasi-things.” These do not exist fully in the traditional sense as substances or events, yet they powerfully act on us and on our states of mind. He offers an original approach to the study of emotions, regarding them not as inner states of the subject, but as atmospheres, that is as powers poured out into the lived space we inhabit.

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        Appel à contributions - Exercices d’ambiances. Présences, enquêtes, écritures ?
        Revue Communications, n° 102 (2018)

        Les contributions attendues exploreront les potentialités de l’enquête sur les phénomènes d’ambiances : les propositions d’articles rendant compte d’enquêtes ethnographiques ou sociologiques originales et inédites seront privilégiées. Il s’agit d’interroger l’efficacité concrète des ambiances en privilégiant l’observation méthodique des pratiques « en train de se faire » et la description située. Comment prendre appui sur les gestes des praticiens des ambiances pour dégager ce que leurs conditions d’émergence ont de précis, voire d’exact ? Comment rendre compte de l’importance des ambiances dans les descriptions ethnographiques, et à quelles conditions ?

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        Publication of ”The Aesthetics of Atmospheres“ by Gernot Böhme, edited by Jean-Paul Thibaud
        Routledge, 218 pages | Published under the aegis of the International Ambiances Network, as part of the new collection Ambiances, Atmospheres and Sensory Experiences of Spaces

        Interest in sensory atmospheres and architectural and urban ambiances has been growing for over 30 years. A key figure in this field is acclaimed German philosopher Gernot Böhme whose influential conception of what atmospheres are and how they function has been only partially available to the English-speaking public. This translation of key essays along with an original introduction charts the development of Gernot Böhme's philosophy of atmospheres and how it can be applied in various contexts such as scenography, commodity aesthetics, advertising, architecture, design, and art.

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        INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES

        Volos 2016 - Ambiances, tomorrow
        Montreal 2012 - Ambiances in action
        Grenoble 2008 - Creating an atmosphere


        RESEARCH SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES

        Cerisy 2018 - The way of ambiances
        London 2017 - Staging Atmospheres
        Milan 2017 - Fourth GDRI Seminar Translating Ambiances
        Volos 2016 - Third GDRI Seminar Translating Ambiances

        Cairo 2015 - Linear Parks and Urban Ambiances
        Montreal 2015 - Second GDRI Seminar Translating Ambiances

        Chicago 2015 - Ambient and Atmospheric Geographies
        Saint-Etienne 2015 - Animer l'espace public
        Grenoble 2014 - Le quotidien filmé

        Nantes 2014 - First GDRI Seminar Translating Ambiances
        Tunis 2014 - Ambiances & Mediterranean Public Space
        London 2013 - Ambiances & Atmospheres in Translation
        Munich 2011 - Urban Design & Urban Society
        Grenoble 2011 - Vidéo et Ambiance
        Aarhus 2010 - SoundActs
        Rio de Janeiro 2009 - Ambiances en Partage
        Lyon, Grenoble et Paris 2009 - Dépaysement

        WORKSHOPS


        Grenoble 2018, CRESSON Winter School 6th Edition
        Bordeaux 2017 - Living modern architectural heritage
        Milan 2017 - MOBIANCE-3 Sharing Cities
        Cergy 2017 - Missing maps of urban violence
        Grenoble 2017 - CRESSON Winter School 5th Edition
        Grenoble 2016 - CRESSON Winter School 4th Edition
        Nantes 2015 - MOBIANCE-2 Capteurs-senseurs en interaction
        Grenoble 2015 - CRESSON Winter School 3rd Edition
        Nantes 2013 - MOBIANCE-1 Outils mobiles & Ambiances
        Nantes 2013 - Simulation and Urban Design
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