Ambiances A Sensitivity to Ordinary Situations

Introduction - Ambiances: A Sensitivity to Ordinary Situations

Jean-Paul Thibaud, Nicolas Tixier and David Zerbib

Part One – Ambiances, sources and resources

Chapter One – A brief archaeology of the notion of ambiance

Jean-Paul Thibaud

Chapter Two – The sensory environment and architectural ambiances

Jean-François Augoyard

Chapter Three – The ambiance waltz

Pascal Amphoux

Intermezzo 1: Dider Tallagrand

Part Two – Ambiances, perspectives and positionings

Chapter Four – The Thickness of the Present: A brief ethno-phenomenological reflection

Véronique Nahoum-Grappe

Chapter Five – Perceiving: Ambiances, places, and connections

François Laplantine

Chapter Six – Phenomenology and Ontology of Ambiances Some Clarifications

Bruce Bégout

Chapter Seven – Milieu, ambiance, and atmosphere: New perspectives on experience

Yves Michaud

Intermezzo 2: Dider Tallagrand

Part Three – Ambiances, dialogues and resonances

Chapter Eight – Exercises in ambiances: A journey across definitions for a multi-perspectivist anthropology of atmospheres

Olivier Gaudin and Maxime Le Calvé

Chapter Nine – Returning to atmosphere

Derek McCormack

Chapter Ten – Ambiance as a concept of francophone cultural geography:

challenges and prospects

Rainer Kazig and Damien Masson

Chapter Eleven – Affective Inflationism and Atmospheric Competence

Tonino Griffero

Intermezzo 3: Dider Tallagrand

Part Four – Ambiances, sensitivity and culture

Chapter Twelve – Towards a therapy of ambiances

Philippe Simay

Chapter Thirteen – The futures of our contemporary sensitivity

Anne Bossé

Chapter Fourteen – Sonic ambiances, intellectual ambiances: Thoreau and Ives

Pauline Nadrigny

Chapter Fifteen – From urban ambiances to cinema: a few reflections based on Siegfried Kracauer

Nia Perivolaropoulou

Intermezzo 4: Dider Tallagrand

Part Five - Ambiances, architecture and place

Chapter Sixteen – Towards a modal conception of architectural ambiances

Grégoire Chelkoff

Chapter Seventeen – Atmospheres in formation: Affective thresholds, immersive fields, and active boundaries

Izabela Wieczorek

Chapter Eighteen – Ambiance’s affordances / Common architectures

Emmanuel Doutriaux

Chapter Nineteen - In pursuit of the aesthetics of atmospheres: With and beyond Böhme

Céline Bonicco-Donato

Intermezzo 5: Dider Tallagrand

Part Six – Ambiances, city and urban space

Chapter Twenty – The ambiances are the message: Transects, projects, and urban situations

Nicolas Tixier

Chapter Twenty-one – Atmospheres in the Metapolitan Anthropocene

Niels Albertsen

Chapter Twenty-two – The developer over-investment in ambiances

Laurent Devisme

Opening: Ambiances of thought: A contribution to the analysis of aesthetic cognition

David Zerbib

Intermezzo 6: Dider Tallagrand

Biography

Jean-Paul Thibaud is a sociologist and a senior CNRS researcher at the CRESSON research Lab (UMR 1563 Ambiances, Architectures, Urbanities).

Nicolas Tixier is an architect and a professor at the Grenoble National School of Architecture. He is a researcher at the CRESSON Research Lab (UMR 1563 Ambiances, Architectures, Urbanities).

David Zerbib is a philosopher. Scientific coordinator of Research at the Annecy Alpes School of Art (ESAAA), he is also a Lecturer in Philosophy of Art at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD - HES-SO).

Didier Tallagrand is an artist. He has been teaching at the Annecy Alpes School of Art since 2002.