Sensory Explorations, Ambiances in a Changing World

The congress is organised by Lusófona University in Lisbon, The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) in Rio de Janeiro with the help of the International Ambiances Network..

This initiative is funded by:

• Grenoble School of Higher Studies in Architecture,
• AAU “Ambiances, Architectures, Urbanités”, Joint research unit between CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research),
• Grenoble School of Architecture,
• Université Grenoble Alpes

Partners:

• CY Cergy Paris University,
• University of Thessaly,
• Nantes School of Higher Studies in Architecture (sous réserve)
• French Ministry of Culture, bureau de l’enseignement et de la recherche en architecture
• Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
• Audencia, Ecole Centrale de Nantes

Dates

Up to 20/04/2024    Call for Abstracts
Up to 30/06/2024    Full Paper Submissions
Up to 31/05/2024     Interventions Submissions
30/05/2024               End of Early Bird Registrations
03/07/2024               End of Registrations and Payment for Publication

08/10/2024               Congress (4 days)

Previous Congresses
2008 | Grenoble – France.
2012 | Montreal – Canada.
2016 | Volos – Greece.
2020 | Online.

General Chairs of the Congress

Mohammed Boubezari – Lusófona University

Cristiane Rose Duarte and Ethel Pinheiro – Federal University of Rio do Janeiro

Steering Committee

Mohammed Boubezari, Cristiane Rose Duarte, Damien Mason, Ethel Pinheiro and Nicolas Remy

Organising Committee

LISBON
Isabel Barbas, João Borges da Cunha, Crisolita Fonsceca,.
RIO DE JANEIRO
Alda Ferreira, Barbara Whats, Cândida Zigoni, Felipe Barros, Fernanda Freitas, Fernando Mathias, Ilana Sancovschi, Katia de Paula, Lígia Castanheira, Nataly Carvalho, Pamela Paris, Sonia Fragozo, Taiane Marcela Alves.

Scientific Committee

Peter ADEY, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
Pascal AMPHOUX, Laboratoire AAU, CRESSON, France
Niels ALBERTSEN, Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark
Suzel BALEZ, Laboratoire AAU, CRESSON, France
Olivier BALAŸ, Laboratoire AAU, CRESSON, France
Giselle Arteiro Nielsen AZEVEDO, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Brazil
Alia BEN AYED, Ecole Nationale d’Architecture et d’Urbanisme, Laboratoire ERA, Tunisia
Paola BERENSTEIN JACQUES, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
Arnold BERLEANT, Long Island University, USA
Emeline BAILLY, CSTB, France
Mikkel BILLE, Roskilde University, Denmark
Anne BOSSE, Laboratoire AAU, Crenau, France
Jose-Luis CARLES, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Grégoire CHELKOFF, Laboratoire AAU, DRESSON, France
Claude DEMERS, UQAM, Canada
Laurent DEVISME, Laboratoire AAU, Crenau, France
Cristiane Rose DUARTE, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Brazil
Fabiana DULTRA BRITTO, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
Tim EDENSOR, University of Manchester, UK
Gleice Azambuja ELALI, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Auxiliadora GALVEZ PEREZ, San Pablo C.E.U EPS Faculty of Architecture, Spain
Matthew GANDY, University of Cambridge, UK
Tonino GRIFFERO, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy
David HOWES, Université Concordia, Canada
Helmi JÄRVILUOMA-MÄKELÄ, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Andrea JELIC, KU Leuven, Belgium
Evelyn Werneck LIMA, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Thomas LEDUC, Laboratoire AAU, Crenau, France
Laurent LESCOP, Laboratoire AAU, Crenau, France
Théa MANOLA, Laboratoire AAU, CRESSON, France
Damien MASSON, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France
Olfa MEZIOU, Ecole Nationale d’Architecture et d’Urbanisme, Laboratoire ERA, Tunisia
Cybelle Salvador MIRANDA, Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil
Ethel PINHEIRO, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Brazil
Andrea Queiroz REGO, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Brazil
Nicolas REMY, Université de Thessalie, Greece
Paulo Afonso RHEINGANTZ, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Brazil
Ignacio REQUENA, Laboratoire AAU, Crenau, France
Myriam SERVIERES, Laboratoire AAU, Crenau, France
Luiz de Jesus Dias da SILVA, Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil
Paul SIMPSON, University of Plymouth, UK
Daniel SIRET, Laboratoire AAU, Crenau, France
Aleksandar STANIČIĆ, TU Delft, Holland
Shanti SUMARTOJO, Monash University, Australia
Vera Regina TANGARI, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Brazil
Jean-Paul THIBAUD, Laboratoire AAU, CRESSON, France
Rachel THOMAS, Laboratoire AAU, CRESSON, France
Vincent TOURRE, Laboratoire AAU, CRESSON, France
Nicolas TIXIER, Laboratoire AAU, CRESSON, France
Carolina VASILIKOU, University of Reading, UK
Maísa VELOSO, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Martin WELTON, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Izabella WIECZOREK, University of Reading, UK

LISBON

1 A pedestrian’s view of the city.
2 Alienating Ambiance Induced by Sensorial Oversaturation: Unveiling the “Disneylandisation” phenomenon
3 Architecture and health.
4 “Art as Document”, Opening Historical Archive to artistic registers in Architecture.
5 Attuning with the World: Imagining and Making Atmospheres.
6 Awakening Urban Terrain Through Translations Across Sensory Atmospheres.
7 Ecological micro-urbanities.
8 Existential corpography. [THIS SESSION WILL ALSO TAKE PLACE IN RIO DE JANEIRO]
9 Fiction as research.
10 Images and the Automation of Sense.
11 Immersive experience as a scientific, creative and pedagogical tool.
12 Instrumentarium of Architectural and Urban Ambiances, Spatialisation of the Sensible in the Project.
13 Negative urban atmospheres.
14 Olfactive Design. The birth of a discipline.
15 Participatory Regenerative Urban Development: ‘ambiancing’ the ecological transition.
16 Politicising Ambiances in a Turbulent World.
17 Sad atmospheres and despairing cities.
18 Sensitive approaches in urban-scale project processes.
19 Sensory Design and its Management Implications for Art and Tourism Places.
20 Smell of Nature: Rethinking Scent Ecology in the Post-Pandemic and Climate Change Context.
21 Sounds, Cities, Art, and Ecology.
22 Sustainable and resilient cities from the perspective of systems thinking.
23 Teaching the ambient Project.
24 The fluvial urban landscape – in search of a new urban ambiance for rivers.
25 The sensory and sensitive identity of Mediterranean cities.
26 The urban and landscape ambiances during and post-pandemic.
27 Thinking Ambiences Through Experimentation: A Research and Teaching Resource Through Experience.
28 Toward an Ambiantal Care.
29 Unbidden, unnamed, uncomfortable: ambiances beyond the binary.
30 Urban Temporalities between heritage and projection.

RIO DE JANEIRO

31 Ambiance and Artificial Intelligence.
32 Ambiance et propagations.
33 Ambiances and Displacement.
34 Ambiances and social identity.
35 Ambient resonance and eco-construction.
36 Beyond the predictable: exploring ambiances in everyday life in cities.
37 City, Forest – Atmospherics of cultural and environmental activism.
38 Climatic backgrounds and climatic textures of ambiances.
39 Creative ambiances in public spaces.
40 Existential corpography. [THIS SESSION WILL ALSO TAKE PLACE IN LISBON]
41 Experimentations, drifts and deambulatory poetics.
42 Metabolic Atmospheres.
43 Insurgent Urban Narratives in/from the Post-Pandemic World.
44 Spacing out in the city – urban imaginaries and ambiances.
45 Spatialities of participation: other systems of sensibility between art and architecture.
46 Sympathy, vulnerability, and ambiance creation.
47 The infinite art of Radio.
48 The role of time in the shaping of urban ambiances: exploring newly-built neighbourhoods.
49 To speak of oneself is to speak of the world: auto-ethnography, memories and ambiances.
50 Urban ambiances and affection: methodological proposals.
51 Virtual ambiances and new ways of interaction in teaching and learning in architecture, urbanism and landscaping.