Interactions among social, faunistic, and floristic groups define new ecologies and cultural dynamics in nightscapes. Our inquiry is concerned with the interdependence between biophysical and semantic processes informed by the artificial lighting of…
The body experiences the city through an interactive process and its synthesis can be called an urban bodygraphy: a kind of body mapping, where the mapped object cannot be distinguished from its representation, given the continuous and reciprocal…
The São Paulo State Department of Social Housing (SEHAB) decided to develop a new experience: to search in the residents' speech a precondition to think the urban projects for the area of Cabuçu de Cima (Jaçanã/Tremembé, North Zone) of São Paulo…
The paper discusses the place-bound construction of individual and collective memories. The question is to what extent atmospheres assist in processes of remembering and/or are remembered themselves. The paper discusses the advantages and challenges…
This study focuses on understanding the emergence of a new kind of urban highly saturated polychromy. We expose an exploratory work at the scale of the French city of Nantes. Our purpose is the constitution of a visual tool able to generate…
Virtual reality has been proved to be a good tool to communicate visual urban ambiances thanks to immersion and interaction. Our work consists in extending this use for a multisensory delineation and assessment of cities. We focus on the…
This paper seeks to recover the foundations in order to reflect the ties (today somehow distended) between sensations / perceptions and politics. It will be tried by renewing the long debate about common sense, as a principle of intersubjective…
" حي شعبي " Hay chäby means, in the colloquial Egyptian, a popular district! In terms of ambience, popularity embodies certain ambient characteristics as it reflects the image of a poor district, densely populated, abundant with touches of misery and…
This paper questions the potential criticism offered by the concept of ambiances. By defending three postures of research (to articulate the sensitive and politics, to defend an ethics of the commitment, to translate and share the common), it puts…
The present paper aims to present a numerical method to assess consequences of the shrinking process on the perception of urban landscape in Detroit downtown.
This paper has for subject the movie intituled Urban Taskscapes, looking at 5 metropolises. From this specific movie we are questioning the capacity of video to represent and share the ambiance. This movie shows some representations of 5…
L'ambiance défie le sens commun en unissant le tout en une idée peu saisissable. Si l'on ne peut en donner une définition arrêtée, il serait possible d'en dégager un rôle, une attitude, une posture, une problématique, une manière de saisir et de…
The current research studies the insertion of commercial activity in cities from a sensory point of view. The main objective of this approach is to define and qualify the "sensory interfaces" in territories un-dergoing change. The evaluation of these…
Sound as a mediator of different qualities is not sufficiently taken into account in creative design processes of architectural and urban planning projects today. The currently weak interest among professionals in the architectural and urban planning…
Digital signage is a form of electronic display on digital screens. Its content is regulated through a server that plays texts, animations, videos or slide shows for a targeted audience. Based on a fieldwork study on four streets in Paris, a typology…
Ever since the early dada experimentations of the 1920's, art has participated in the emergence of a sense of "public space" in public places. By transferring works of art in actual public places, artists in general, and sound artists in particular,…
The contemporary city is experienced through a framework of multiple spaces that individuals interact with on a daily and routine basis. These are not merely encounters with the built form, but are environments that are metabolized and personalized…
The aim of the present study is to demonstrate that research focusing merely on economic and physical effects in a given area, and ignoring the social aspects and ambiance of new transport infrastructure, inevitably suffers a loss of quality. The…
Résumé. Cet article traite du rôle sensible de l'eau comme élément d'ambiance dans les jardins et les parcs publics. La mise en scène de l'eau a été transformée depuis le changement des jardins historiques par leur ouverture au public. La mise en…
In a context of an international interest for the question of urban spaces accessibility for elderly, we tend to construct an experimental protocol correlating data issues of commented walks, psychophysiologic measures of stress level engendered by…
