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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.
The study of ambiances is part of an important trend in the contemporary urban world, where increasing attention is given to the sensitive and affective dimensions of space and experience. Beginning with an exploration of foundational concepts, the book then delves into the sensory, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of ambiances at the intersection of sensory environments and lived experiences. It explores the role that ambiances play in architectural design, urban spaces, and daily life. It engages with questions of contemporary sensibility, the sensitive experience of architectures and urban spaces, and the dialogue between the notion of ambiances and that of affective atmospheres. This book connects diverse perspectives of architects, philosophers, anthropologists and geographers to map the conceptual and practical territories of ambiances, from their roots in Francophone research to their broader global implications.
This book offers an essential guide to the study of ambiances, providing a foundational and forward-looking exploration, valuable for researchers and upper level undergraduates of architecture, urban studies, urban planning, human geography, anthropology and philosophy.
Contents
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.
