Ambiances

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.

• 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.