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AMBIANCES,

ALLOÆSTHESIA:

SENSES, INVENTIONS, WORLDS.

Proceedings of the 4th International Congress on Ambiances.

Edited by Damien Masson

AMBIANCES, ALLOÆSTHESIA: Edited by Damien Masson SENSES, INVENTIONS, WORLDS 1

The topic of ambiances and atmospheres has been unfurling for more than four decades, 1

and the questions associated with it are constantly being renewed. The vitality of ambiance and atmosphere as an object of study and as a field of research and practice is particularly sensitive through the continuous development of the International Ambiances Network.

After the Congresses of Grenoble (Creating an Atmosphere, 2008), Montreal (Ambiances in Action, 2012) and Volos (Ambiances, Tomorrow: The Future of Ambiances, 2016), this 4th International Ambiances Network Congress, entitled "Ambiances, Alloaesthesia:

Senses, Inventions, Worlds" questions the renewal of the forms of feeling in a world that is undergoing major changes. It aims to consider how the contemporary environmental, social, technological, political and ethical changes are likely to affect the sensitive worlds, their ambiances, and the ways of experiencing them.

These conference proceedings bring together about a hundred contributions written by an international base of academics, practitioners, artists and PhD students working on ambiances and atmospheres. They offer an up-to-date account of the variety of themes and issues within this field, showcasing the latest research and methodological approaches. Organized in sixteen complementary topics, these chapters examine the ongoing preoccupations, debates, theories, politics and practices of this field, drawing on multidisciplinary expertise from areas as diverse as anthropology, architecture, computer science, cultural studies, design, engineering, geography, musicology, psychology, sociology, urban studies and so on.

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the research field of ambiances. Its role is to federate and promote research works related to ambiances, to the sensory design of architectural and urban spaces and to the understanding of the ontologies, forms and powers of the affective intensities of atmospheres. The International Ambiances Network favors multisensoriality and pluridisciplinarity and gathers works coming from fields as diverse as social sciences and humanities; architecture and urban planning; engineering and applied physics.

It is open to a wide variety of academics, practitioners and artists.

This research network aims at:

• enhancing research related to ambiances,

• developing a synergy between research and design activities,

• promoting research collaborations and cooperation,

• linking research and teaching.

Its main actions consist in:

• organizing a quadrennial congress,

• funding and supporting the organization of yearly workshops, seminars

and conferences,

• promoting scientific publication related to ambiances,

• providing assistance with teaching experiences, workshops and exchanges.

Publishing Secretary of Proceedings Chloé Pestel

ISBN 978-2-9520948-7-0

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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the written permission of the authors and the publishers.

Senses, Inventions, Worlds

4th International Congress on Ambiances December 2020, e-conference

VOLUME 1

Edited by Damien Masson

The congress is organized by the International Ambiances Network, Scientific and Thematic Network of the French Ministry of Culture.

This initiative is funded by

▪ Bureau of Architectural, Urban and Landscape Research at the French Mi- nistry of Culture;

▪ Grenoble School of Architecture;

▪ AAU “Ambiances, Architectures, Urbanités”, Joint research unit between CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research), Grenoble School of Architecture, Nantes School of Architecture, Centrale Nantes.

Partners

▪ CY Cergy Paris University;

▪ University of Thessaly.

Acknowledgements

These proceedings would not have been possible without a major collective mobiliza- tion. I would like to thank Prof. Marcos Novak for his warm welcome to UCSB and to the MAT team for proposing the organization of the Congress in person. I would also like to thank all the session organizers very warmly for their patient work in selecting the abstracts, critically reading the proposed chapters and for the confidence they have shown in the organization of this event, despite the uncertain times we have been going through in recent months. Thanks are also due to all the contributors to these proceedings. Without you, neither this book nor the congress would exist.

Thank you in particular for having made the considerable effort to provide your chapters on time, for having taken the reviewers’ comments into account in your texts, all this in a particularly complicated period due to lockdowns, overlapping calendars, holidays, new academic terms, and so on. Thank you also to all the mem- bers of the organizing committee and to the institutions that endorsed this event, for your support, both one-off and ongoing, without which the congress would not have been possible. In particular, a huge thank you to Nicolas Rémy, co-director of the In- ternational Ambiances Network, for your tireless work, your experience and your unfailing support for the success of this event and more widely for the management of the network. Finally, the proceedings in their present form would never have seen the light of day without the immense, conscientious, meticulous and creative work of Chloé Pestel, who ensured the exchanges with all the authors and session organizers, the spelling and typographical corrections of all the chapters and the realization of the present book. For all this and also for your constant good spirit, a huge thank you!

Damien Masson

Contents

Congress Organization 10

Foreword 13

Call for Papers 17

Contributors 22

S^eSSion 1

A^tmoSphere, Anthropocene, U^rbAnity, S^{enSitivity 57}

Introduction 58

Niels ALBERTSEN, Suzel BALEZ, Laurent DEVISME, Jean-Paul THIBAUD

A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Ambiance Change Triggers in an Urban Context 62 Brieuc BISSON

Introduction to the Sound Installation “Beyond the Mortal Eye” 68 Bethan KELLOUGH

Atmosphere and the anthropogenic Metapolis 74

Niels ALBERTSEN

Sensibilities to Lifeworlds 80

Jean-Paul THIBAUD

At the Edges of the Phenomenal 86

Suzel BALEZ

Ambiances of Anthropocene on Thessaly Territory, Greece: A Critical Dictionary 92 Yorgos TZIRTZILAKIS, Afroditi MARAGKOU,Yorgos RIMENIDIS

S^eSSion 2

A^rtificiAl l^ightingAnd d^ArkneSSinthe ArchitectUrAlAnd U^rbAn p^{rActiceS 99}

Introduction 100

Nicolas HOUEL

Colored LED Lighting as a Primary Interior Spatial Condition 102 Judy THEODORSON, Jennifer SCOTT

Design Practice as Fieldwork 108

Rupert GRIFFITHS

Dark Design 114

Nick DUNN

S^eSSion3

A^tmoSphereS + d^{eSign 121}

Introduction 122

Shanti SUMARTOJO

Room for Transition by Aesthetic Empowerment? 126

Birgitte FOLMANN

Light Affects 132

Stine Louring NIELSEN

From Parlour to Studio 138 Daniele LUGLI

Architectures, Technologies, and Stadiums Atmospheres 144 Michel RASPAUD

Reusing Atmospheres 150

Francesca LANZ

The Agency of Perception 156

Izabela WIECZOREK

Culture of Creation 162

Satyendra PAKHALÉ, Tiziana PROIETTI

Designing With Fog 168

John SADAR, Gyungju CHYON

Choreographing Aesthetic Atmospheres 174

Malte WAGENFELD

S^eSSion 4

b^ody, c^UltUre, i^{dentity 181}

Introduction 182

Cristina PALMESE,José Luis CARLES

Olympus VR 186

Giorgos LOUKAKIS, Spiros PAPADOPOULOS, Vassilis BOURDAKIS

Physical Body Awareness and Virtual Embodiment 192

Magdalini GRIGORIADOU, Eleni MANTZARI

Atelier Art et Re-Action (Area) 198

Ricardo ATIENZA, Monica SAND, Robin McGINLEY

Resonant Spaces 204

Sofía BALBONTÍN, Mathias KLENNER

Phantasmagorias of the Post-Colonial Interiors 210

João CUNHA

S^eSSion 5

d^igitAl ArchitectUre. A^tmoSphereSin d^{eSign And} n^ew r^eSponSive

& S^enSitive configUrAtionS 217

Introduction 218

Amal ABU DAYA, Philippe LIVENEAU

The Formation of the Technological Sensitivity 220

Sebastien BOURBONNAIS

Architecture and its Double 226

Yasmine ABBAS

Atmospheric Gestures of Architecture in Cinematic Aided Design Framework 232 Amir SOLTANI

Ornamental Atmosphere & Digital De-lights 238

Amal Abu DAYA¹, Noha Gamal SAID

Homunculus Nimbus 244

Mark-David HOSALE

Extending sensibility for metabolic processes in immersive media environments 250 Desiree FOERSTER

Development of the Integrated Approach on the impact of the Climate Adaptive Building

Shells 256

Liliia ISYK

S^eSSion 6

f^romA S^enSitive e^cologyof A^mbiAnceS/A^{tmoSphereSto A} p^oliticAl e^{cology 263}

Introduction 264

Damien MASSON, Rachel THOMAS

From a Sensitive Ecology to a Political Ecology of Ambiances 268 Damien MASSON, Rachel THOMAS

Anxious Atmospheres of the Apologetic State 274

Seraphine APPEL

Sensing Vulnerability, Listening to Urban Atmosphere. 280 Nicola DI CROCE

Ambiences of Empathy and Fear 286

Sophia VYZOVITI, Thodoris CHALVATZOGLOU

Preference Atmospheres in the ‘Carioca Gaza Strip’ 292

Alex Assunção LAMOUNIER, Vera Regina TÂNGARI

Ambiance Is Key in Any Innovation Strategy 298

Diana SOEIRO

Affects as Foam of the Balance of Power at a Time of Urban Aesthetisation? 304 Georges-Henry LAFFONT

Politicising the Atmospheres of Urban Environmental Changes 310 Lucilla BARCHETTA

S^eSSion 7

i^nfinite A^tmoSphereS? e^thicAl d^{imenSionSofAndforthe} d^eSignof p^Ublic

S^{pAceS 317}

Introduction 318

Théa MANOLA, Evangelia PAXINOU

Infinite Atmospheres 320

Evangelia PAXINOU

Atmospheres of Rejection 326

Ole B. JENSEN

Entangled Ambiance 332

Marilia CHAVES

Displacement: Architectural Collage 338

Jennifer A. E. SHIELDS

Happy Atmospheres 344

Nicolas REMY, Evangelia PAXINOU

S^eSSion 8

i^nhAbiting i^nSecUrity. p^rActiceSAnd repreSentAtionS 351

Introduction 352

Alia BEN AYED,Olfa MEZIOU

MAG 354

Isabel BARBAS

Fear of the Unknown in Urban Atmospheres 360

Farzaneh SEMATI, Hamidreza GHAHREMANPOURI

Ambiences and Safety? 366

Ari KOIVUMÄKI

i^ndexof A^UthorS, v^olUme 1 ³⁷³

Congress Organization

Damien Masson

Organizing Comittee

Françoise Acquier (AAU), David Argoud (AAU), Suzel Balez (AAU), Stéphane Di Chiaro (AAU), Yiorgos Kalaouzis (UTH), Marcos Novak (MAT, UCSB), Chloe Pestel (CYU), Sophie Provost (AAU), Nicolas Remy (UTH), Daniel Siret (AAU), Rachel Thomas (AAU), Nicolas Tixier (AAU), Jean-Paul Thibaud (AAU).

Scientific Committee

Peter ADEY, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Pascal AMPHOUX, AAU Laboratory, Cresson, France Niels ALBERTSEN Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark Amal ABU DAYA, AAU Laboratory, Cresson, France Suzel BALEZ, AAU Laboratory, Cresson, France Olivier BALAŸ, AAU Laboratory, Cresson, France

Alia BEN AYED, ENAU (National School of Architecture and Urbanism), ERA Laboratory, Tunisia

Emeline BAILLY, CSTB, France

Vassilis BOURDAKIS, University of Thessaly at Volos, Greece Jose-Luis CARLES, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain

Budhaditya CHATTOPADHYAY, Center for Arts and Humanities, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Grégoire CHELKOFF, AAU Laboratory, Cresson, France

Edith CHEZEL, Pacte Laboratory, Université Grenoble Alpes, France Laurent DEVISME, AAU Laboratory, Crenau, France

Cristiane Rose DUARTE, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Brasil Nick DUNN, Institute for the Contemporary Arts, University of Lancaster, UK Tonino GRIFFERO, Universita Tor Vergata, Italy

Nicolas HOUEL, AAU Laboratory, Crenau, France

David HOWES, Center for Sensory Studies, Concordia University, Canada Andrea JELIC, Aalborg University, Denmark

Sylvie LAROCHE, AAU Laboratory, Cresson, France Thomas LEDUC, AAU Laboratory, Crenau, France Laurent LESCOP, AAU Laboratory, Crenau, France

Philippe LIVENEAU, AAU Laboratory, Cresson, France Théa MANOLA, AAU Laboratory, Cresson, France Damien MASSON, CY Cergy Paris University, France

Olfa MEZIOU, ENAU (National School of Architecture and Urbanism), ERA Laboratory, Tunisia

Marcos NOVAK, Media Arts and Technology, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Cristina PALMESE, Paisajesensorial Office-Lab

Spiros PAPADOPOULOS, University of Thessaly at Volos, Greece Giorgos PAPKONSTANTINOU, University of Thessaly at Volos, Greece Evangelia PAXINOU, AAU Laboratory, Greece

Ethel PINHEIRO, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Brasil Nicolas REMY, University of Thessaly at Volos, Greece

Ignacio REQUENA, AAU Laboratory, Crenau, France Myriam SERVIERES, AAU Laboratory, Crenau, France Paul SIMPSON, University of Plymouth, UK

Daniel SIRET, AAU Laboratory, Crenau, France Aleksandar STANIČIĆ, TU Delft, Netherlands Shanti SUMARTOJO, Monash University, Australia Jean-Paul THIBAUD, AAU Laboratory, Cresson, France Rachel THOMAS, AAU Laboratory, Cresson, France Vincent TOURRE, AAU Laboratory, Crenau, France Nicolas TIXIER, AAU Laboratory, Cresson, France

Aris TSANGRASSOULIS, University of Thessaly at Volos, Greece Martin WELTON, Queen Mary University of London, UK Izabella WIECZOREK, University of Reading, UK

Penelope WOODS, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Foreword

Ambiances, Alloæsthesia: Senses, Inventions, Worlds is the title of the 4^th International Congress on Ambiances, organized by the International Ambiances Network. This is a thematic scientific network supported by the French Ministry of Culture, the Ambiances, Architectures, Urbanités research unit and the Grenoble School of Architecture Its role is to federate and promote work relating to ambiances, to the sensory design of architectural and urban spaces and to the understanding of the ontologies, forms and powers of the affective intensities of atmospheres. It takes into account the sensory field in the ways of thinking and designing the spaces that are produced, experienced, practiced and represented. This approach to the built environment involves the sound, light, olfactory, thermal, tactile, kinesthetic and other dimensions of the world. It also involves the cultural, social and political dimensions of the situated bodily experience. The International Ambiances Network advocates multi-sensorial and multidisciplinary approaches. It is aimed at researchers, academics, professionals, artists and students from various horizons and covers the field of research as well as design activities, teaching practices and artistic actions. At the time we write these words, the network brings together nearly 1,080 individual mem- bers (whose distribution on the surface of the planet can be seen on the map below), spread over more than sixty countries. It also has some thirty teams (research, edu- cational, professional groups) associated with it. Each year, this network contributes to the organization (scientific, financial and logistical) of at least one international thematic conference, several scientific seminars and educational work- shops.

Members of the International Ambiances Network (October 2020). Basemap: Carto.

In line with previous editions (2008, Grenoble; 2012, Montreal; 2016, Volos), this 4^th edition of the international congress aims to promote the widest possible range of research work, educational interventions, artistic experiments and design or concep- tion operations, in and for which ambiances play a key role. They are present there

as much as an object of research, design intention and method of access to the sensitive world. As a place for meeting, exchange, transmission and innovation, the Congresses on ambiances are intended to welcome and bring people together. Different from themed seminars, they enable the expression of the great diversity of theoreti- cal, methodological and practical approaches, as well as the meeting, within the same conference, of scientists from fields as diverse as anthropology, architecture, computer science, cultural studies, design, engineering, geography, history, musicology, psychology, sociology, urban studies, etc. They are also constructive moments, allowing the dissemination of the most innovative works, proposed by researchers at the fore- front of their field, as well as the reception of embryonic research, still in the process of being set up, but whose novelty of questioning often goes hand in hand with thematic, methodological and theoretical renewal. Finally, these congresses are moments of sharing of the sensory, of testing the body, of experiencing situations and, historically, the emphasis is placed on sensory and æsthetic experiences, both indi- vidual and collective (through artistic installations, workshops, concerts, visits).

Since the Montreal congress (2012), the steering committee of the International Ambiances Network has chosen to co-organize its congresses. The challenge is to share the organization of this event with the network members and to enrich the network by learning and sharing the practices, cultures and territories that these encounters provoke. These partnerships also aim to identify and develop new research themes, by bringing together teams whose field of action and proximity to ambiances open up new perspectives for this field. In this sense, the meeting with Marcos Novak, pro- fessor at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Media, Arts, Technology (MAT) team, to which he belongs, provided a particularly rich perspective for the network.

This team brings together academics and artists working on the intersections between media, media arts and technology. Based in particular on experimentation on scale 1, such as the production of immersive (visual, sound) devices, their work questions the modes of production of new environments and new æsthetic forms, as well as the renewal of forms of spatial narration, data representation, sound design and modes of sonification and so on. In doing so, they debate the philosophical, social and mediatic implications of the fabrication of worlds. They also question the production of new sensitive worlds and the evolution of sensitivities, particularly in situations of tech- nological mediation of the latter. Without stating it explicitly nor thematizing it in these terms, these devices, like the reflections they underlie, participate in producing ambiances, questioning the forms of sensorial experience in situations of technologi- cal mediation of sensory environments and finally testing the limits of technological devices in the face of the complexity of the anthropic sensorium.

The partnership with the MAT and the fruitful exchanges with Marcos Novak have led to the development of hypotheses for the framework of this 4^th Congress, whose title, Ambiances, Alloæsthesia, aims to express the questions arising from the crossroads of research concerns in our fields. These questions can be summed up in the following double questioning:

▪ What other forms of sensitivity are emerging at a time in history marked by major environmental, political and technological upheavals?

▪ In what way does this renewal of sensibilities question the problematization of the notion of ambiance, and how can the field of ambiances apprehend these upheavals?

The Covid-19 global pandemic provides, sadly, a perfect illustration of these uphea- vals. It has been widely noted that this health crisis is, at its core, a reflection of the environmental crisis we are going through, and it causes multiple shocks – economic, social and political. It is also provoking disturbances in sensibilities and affects. All over the world, humans are experiencing the consequences of the need to sanitize life in society. Through the almost global generalization, at different times, of confine- ments, we have collectively participated and assisted in the emptying of the streets of cities and the countryside, in the regulation of modes of occupation and possible uses within the public space, in the disinfection of bodies and common spaces, in the silencing of urban and extra-urban sound environments, in the proliferation of audio-visual mediations of verbal exchanges, in the fading of tactile contacts, in the relearning of breathing, in the disappearance of faces etc. This historical moment is also a moment to take time and step back. It allows a critical examination of our lifestyles and the choices made by our societies.

This crisis has not been without effect on the organization of the Congress, which had to be quickly rearranged into three phases: publication of the proceedings, an online conference, and then – once the health crisis is over – a time of exchange in co-presence.

The situation, unprecedented in many respects, implied a resumption of the steering of the congress by the International Ambiances Network for the production of the proceedings and the organization of the e-conference. At the present time, we still do not know what form the third phase will take, but we sincerely hope that it will provide the opportunity for the expected meeting with our colleagues from the University of California in Santa Barbara, and that we can collectively benefit not only from rich intellectual exchanges, but also from bodily, sensitive and æsthetic experiences.

The present proceedings and the upcoming e-conference are evidence of a renewal of the forms of organization of the Congress. While the general framework of the call for papers follows the above-mentioned intentions, a set of thematic calls for ses- sions, proposed by specialists from different countries and disciplinary backgrounds, has been added to the thematic axes of the general call. Behind such an organization method lies the challenge of opening up themes and questions, but also of diversifying research approaches and practices. The initial call proposed 25 thematic sessions and 3 research axes, which were then reorganized once the abstracts were received, so as to ensure maximum coherence within each session. The present book, which reflects the organization of the e-conference, arranges 103 chapters spread into 16 sessions, representing a wide range of contemporary concerns relating to ambiences.

Through this book and the forthcoming conference, we hope that the congress will fulfil its mission: to be a place of exchange, where each of the contributions can generate an echo, but also make a ripple effect by giving rise to extensions, be they ideas, experiences and collaborations.

Damien Masson & Nicolas Remy Co-Directors of the International Ambiances Network September 2020

Ambiances, Alloæsthesia:

Senses, Inventions, Worlds

4^th international Congress on Ambiances 2-4 December 2020, e-conference

Call for Papers

Damien Masson, Marcos Novak

With the organizing committee of the Congress

The 4^th Congress of the International Ambiances Network aims to bring together a large community of academics, practitioners, artists and students working on, with or through ambiances. The mobilization of this tryptic underlines the diversity of the forms of mobilization of the notion of atmosphere, which questions the sensitive world in terms of: research subject, category of analysis, and dispositif for action.

The topic of ambiances and atmospheres has carried out its deployment for more than four decades, and the questions associated with it are constantly being renewed. The vitality of ambiance/atmosphere as an object of study and as a field of research and practice is particularly sensitive through the continuous development of the International Ambiances Network, with more than a thousand members spread over all continents, and belonging to disciplines ranging from Architecture and Urban Design, to Social Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Arts and Humanities (see the website:

https://www.ambiances.net).

After the Congresses of Grenoble (Creating an Atmosphere, 2008), Montreal (Ambiances in Action, 2012) and Volos (Ambiances, Tomorrow: The Future of Ambiances, 2016), this 4^th Congress entitled “Ambiances, Alloæsthesia: Senses, Inventions, Worlds”

focuses on the renewal of the forms of feeling in a world that is undergoing major changes. Composed by “allo” which stands for “other, of another kind”, using the term alloæsthesia aim to characterize: other senses, or senses of another kind, and suggests to be comprehensive of the emergence of potential new kinds of senses and sensibilities¹. This Congress aims to consider how the contemporary environmental, social, technological, political and ethical changes are likely to affect the sensitive worlds, their ambiances, and the ways of experiencing them.

How do the aforementioned changes question the research on ambiances and atmo- spheres, at epistemological, theoretical, methodological and practical levels? These questions are divided into the following three thematic areas:

▪ 1/ New sensitizations. Present times, on a global scale, are marked by the multiplication of environmental (such as global warming, massive damage to

1. Using this term beyond its medical definition (i.e. allesthesia means the sensation of a stimulus in one limb that is referred to the contralateral limb) aims to open it to a wider understanding, in order to ques- tion its potential articulation to the notion of ambiances.

the biosphere, etc.), political and social (as evidenced by the rise of conflicts, the emergence of the “society of vigilance”, etc.) emergencies, which are carried in a massive and almost unavoidable way by the media and social networks. Together, they contribute to redefining the landscapes of ordinary life. In what way does this situation, characterized by various threats and associated anxieties, renew our modes of attention, presence and action in the world? How do these attentions redefine the sensitivities, in that they refer to what I am sensitive to (what touches me) and how we become sen- sitive to (how am I affected)? How do our sensitive experiences reconfigure themselves in these new worlds of uncertainty? How do they crystallize into new ways of designing and managing spaces? And how do these modes circu- late and are communicated?

▪ 2/ Human and non-human sensitivities. How can we question the pressures resulting from the evolution of the sensory environment on the non-human sensorium in a world more than ever affected by human actions, which can be designated in certain circumstances as Anthropocene? In what ways can ecological and ethological approaches, through observations on non-human living beings, question potential evolutions of human sensitivity? How, by extension, do they renew the ways of understanding ambiances? Conversely, how are the concept of atmosphere, and how the scientific approaches, on the one hand on architectural and urban ambiances, and on affective atmos- pheres on the other hand, likely to put into question disciplines that challenge the senses, the action, the interactions between body and environment, grounded within different epistemologies, and other methodological traditions?

▪ 3/ Artificial and extended sensibility. In what ways does the development of technologies allowing the consultation and representation (notably through visualization, auralization, etc.) of a very large amount of informa- tion contribute to alter (notably through restriction or extension) our sensitive potential within a datascape? How do the spaces measured, captured, repro- duced by machines, sensors and algorithms create new worlds, and new sensory universes for humans? How do physiological alterations (may these be temporary, such as the wearing of augmented reality devices, or durable, such as certain biotechnologies), and prostheses (whether these prostheses are located within the body, or are new holds and affordances provided by spaces) define new sensitive worlds? How do these environments overflow into our daily environments? What resources do works of fiction and antici- pation provide to think about these changes? What resources or limitations do these new sensory worlds provide for action?

Beyond this general framework and these three themes, the Congress of the International Ambiances Network aims to be representative of the thematic and discipli- nary diversity, of the most contemporary researches on Ambiances and Atmospheres.

Themed sessions, panels and workshops (see session gallery at the end of this call, as well as on the website of the conference), as well as installations and posters, perfor- mances and æsthetic experiences, will make this meeting a key moment for exchanges, the dissemination of knowledge, and the federation of an international community of research, pedagogy and practice on ambiances and affective atmospheres.

CONTRIBUTORS

Yasmine ABBAS

is a French architect working at the architecture and design faculty at The Pennsylvania State University. She received a SMArchS from MIT (2001) and a Doctor of Design from Harvard University (2006) for her work investigating neo-nomads. Her research explores mobility, digital culture, and augmented place-making, with current focus on architecting atmospheres, and the computational design of ambiances. She is co-founder of the Agbogbloshie Makerspace Platform (AMP), an open architecture project that has been exhibited at the 2017 Seoul Biennale for Architecture and Urbanism, South Korea, the 2018 Afropixel Festival #6, Dakar, Senegal and the 2018

“Digital Imaginaries: Africas in Production” exhibition at ZKM, Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany. AMP has been awarded the 2020 Le Monde Urban Innovation Award for Citizen Engagement.

Amal ABU DAYA

is an architect and has worked on projects ranging from public facility buildings and housing to interior design for over 10 years in France before opening her own practice which she co-managed for 2 years. She is a lecturer at the Grenoble National School of Architecture in the master cycle “Architecture, Ambiance and Digital Culture”, in the Digital Research by Design Lab where she has been teaching since 2012. Amal is currently working on a Ph.D. on ‘The architectural prototype in the digital age’ at the Cresson laboratory, UMR CNRS “Architecture and Urban Atmospheres”. Her teaching and research focus on the digital transition of the architectural discipline through the notions of tectonics and atmosphere, especially around the themes of ornamentation, materiality, as well as the renewed processes of architectural design, questioning the role and status of architectural prototypes in the digital age.

Niels ALBERTSEN

Professor emeritus, MSc (political science), Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark.

Since 1975 research and teaching at this institution into urban and social theory, architectural and design theory, the sociology of the architectural profession, the sociology and philosophy of art. President of the Nordic Association for Architectural research (1998-2000), Head of Department (Landscape and Urbanism) (2003-2011), co-director Centre for Strategic Urban Research (2004-2015) (www.byforskning.ku.

dk). Publications on atmosphere since 1996. See https://adk.elsevierpure.com/da/

persons/niels-albertsen Nuria ALVAREZ COLL

is an architect graduated at the “Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona.”

With the desire to seek other artistic expressions, she studies for two years physical theatre (Jacques Lecoq’s method) in Barcelona. She discovers contemporary earthen architecture in Chile with the architect Marcelo Cortés. Astonished by raw earth’s expressive potential, she makes the connection between architecture and theatre cocreating the theater company Colectivo Terrón where she’s artistic co-director nowadays. Motivated to go deeper into earth construction, she integrates until 2012

Contributors Biographies

the post-master “Earth architecture” in CRAterre laboratory in Grenoble School of Architecture (ENSAG). After that, she works in “atelier matières à construire” (amàco), an educational resources center that aims to upgrade the qualities of naturals materials (such as sand, clay, water, fibers…) in building arts. Here she starts her interest in sensory experiences with raw matter and decides to develop a Ph.D. research to converge all her experiences.

Katarina ANDJELKOVIC

with a Ph.D., M.Arch.Eng., is a theorist, practicing architect, researcher and a painter.

She served as a Visiting Professor, Chair of Creative Architecture, at the University of Oklahoma U.S.A., Institute of Form Theory and History in Oslo, Institute of Urbanism and Landscape in Oslo, University of Belgrade, and guest-lectured at TU Delft, AHO Oslo and ITU - Istanbul Technical University. She lectures internationally at confe- rences in more than 23 countries in Europe, UK, North America and Canada. Katarina has published her research widely in international journals (Web of Science) and won numerous awards for her architecture design and urban design competitions. She is a full author of the Preliminary Architectural Design, a national project supported by the government of Serbia. She won the Belgrade Chamber of Commerce Award for Best Master Thesis defended at Universities in Serbia in all disciplines.

Seraphine APPEL

is a doctoral candidate at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. Her work relates philosophy of æsthetic atmosphere to decolonial theory and explores how colonial projects and attitudes shape oppressive ambiances through physical and narrative manipulations of space and time. Her childhood was spent in Canada and Asia and her formation in philosophy and art took place in North America and Europe.

A Canadian of European parents, her perspective is that of a settler and her philosophical project is a deconstruction of settler colonial ideologies, rooted in the investigation of an æsthetic topology of settler spaces and temporal understandings

Ichraf AROUA

is a Ph.D. student in architecture. He is affiliated with the Research Team on Ambiances (ERA) from the National School of Architecture (ENAU), Tunisia. His interests are focused on the altered perception in the urban and architectural space and the complexity of ambiances.

Ricardo ATIENZA

is a researcher, Sound Artist, Ph.D. Architect. Senior lecturer in Sound Art at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm. Atienza focuses his work on the situated experience of place, on the multiple embodied, social, sensorial and sensible interactions established with and within our daily environments. Sound, as a qualified experience of place becomes here a main explorative tool and material for approa- ching the complexity of our everyday spaces and situations. The resulting research processes adopt interdisciplinary methods and transversal public forms such as sonic-spatial installations, in-situ interventions in the public space, electroacoustic and radiophonic compositions or sound design pieces.

Nathalie AUDAS

conducts her research on the sensitive relationships of individuals to their living spaces and thus questions the scope of “affects” in order to (re)-question the ambiances and give a new reading of the urban project. Her reflections are oriented towards qualitative methodologies in their propensity to reach the affects.

Karan AUGUST

is an independent scholar and City Planner in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 2007 she has published in the fields of philosophy, architecture, and led design studios throughout Europe, the UK, Japan, New Zealand, and the States. Her formal training includes the study of philosophy at UC Berkeley and architecture at TU Delft. She is on the editorial board of Footprint, Delft Architecture Theory Journal.

Emeline BAILLY

is a Ph.D. and a researcher in Urbanism at Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment (CSTB). She currently works on sustainable and sensible urban research projects. She’s developing a specific focus on the concept of urban landscapes, public spaces and quality of urban life. She is in charge of urban research programs on an international scale (Urban edge/Genève, Think Nature/EU, FACT (Paris & New York), Ecodistrict/

Paris,..), and she regularly teaches in urban planning institutes and schools of archi- tecture. Her last publications are : Biodiversité urbaines, pour une ville vivante, with Dorothée Marchand and Alain Maugard, edtion PC, Oser la ville sensible, Cosmografia edition and, with Dorothée Marchand , Penser la qualité, vers une ville sensible et résiliente, Mardaga edition.

Sofía BALBONTÍN

is an architect, sound artist and researcher, that explore the relations between sound, space and society through performance. Her work focuses on the æsthetic, political and social dimension of soundspace as a means to create alternative and subjective narratives, to resignify, subvert and deconstruct the memory of space and the archi- tecture that sustains it. She works with Mathias KLENNER since 2014 focusing their practice on sound and space experimentations. They have created workshops, lectures, performances, videos and installations in the cross fields of architecture and sound art in Santiago, Valdivia, Valparaíso, Barcelona, Madrid, New Haven, Bilbao, Cosenza, New York, Chicago, Melbourne, Copenhagen and Berlin. They have obtained the Fondart, Becas Chile and Graham Foundation Grants.

Suzel BALEZ

is a Ph.D. architect, researcher at the Cresson Laboratory (UMR CNRS 1536). Currently a lecturer at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris la Villette (ENSAPLV), in the department of Sciences and Techniques for Architecture, she is teaching mainly environmental strikes and ambiances perception and design, espe- cially in public spaces. Since her Ph.D. thesis about smell effects in the built environ- ment using smell walks in a commercial center (University of Nantes – France, 2001), she has carried out works on dynamic indoor and outdoor the perception of places, primarily through the sense of smell. She is currently working on her accreditation to supervise research on the olfactory experience of places.

Isabel BARBAS

is an architect, artist, and teacher, develops a multifaceted work in-between archi- tecture, art and design. She has a Master in Art (FBAUL), a degree in Architecture (FAUTL) and she is finishing a Ph.D. in architecture (ULHT) about ephemeral, spatial and artistic interventions in the public space. Her work (mostly realized in Spain and Portugal) results from the crossing of various artistic strategies investigating issues related to Materiality, Atmosphere and Gravity. In public Space she inquires about participation, memory and citizenship. She has several works and installations in public space awarded in competitions and presented in conferences. Since 2010 she

has developed teaching positions at the School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technology of the University Lusófona in Lisbon and has conducted international and national workshops.

Lucilla BARCHETTA

is an anthropologist and urban geographer who recently completed her Ph.D. in Urban Studies at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (L’Aquila, Italy). Her work focuses on the intersection of political ecology with urban studies and is sustained by an in-depth ethnographic approach to the everyday life of cities. She is currently a research fellow at the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society of the University of Turin, where she participates in a broader project on the relationship between the construction of Italian whiteness and processes of urban environmental change. She is in the process of writing up a monograph based on her Ph.D. thesis Riverbanks made by walking:

understanding the temporalities of urban natures through atmospheres, scheduled to be published by the Italian publishing house Agenzia X in 2020.

Fredric BELL

is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University where he also serves as Deputy Director of the Center for Buildings, Infrastructure and Public Space. He pre- viously held positions at the NYC Department of Design and Construction, the city’s public works agency, where he was Director of Design and Construction Excellence and Assistant Commissioner of Architecture and Engineering. Between stints at DDC, he served as Executive Director of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter and its storefront Center for Architecture. At AIANY he initiated the FitCity and FitNation programs which gave shape to the importance of physical activity in everyday life, and which resulted in the adoption of Active Design Guidelines by the municipality. A frequent lecturer and critic, he is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and the Forum for Urban Design, and a Board Member of the Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization.

Alia BEN AYED

is currently Professor at ENAU (Tunis), member of the Ambiances Research Team (ERA).

Her research program proposes to test the notion of porosity in the context of an operational thought turned towards a sensitive urban and architectural practice. Her teaching activities are an opportunity to develop, deepen and concretely implement the theoretical framework of research work and enrich analysis and design tools.

Karl BERTHELOT

is a Ph.D. student in sociology, political science and geography at EHESS (Géographie-Cités) since 2018, he works on the relationship between the working classes and ecology in eco-districts undergoing urban renovation. He questions the effects of ecogentrification in these popular spaces and is interested in alternative cultures of ecology rooted in living places and precarious living conditions. Using an ethnographic approach com- bining observations and in-depth semi-directive interviews, he seeks to confront the concept of political subjectivation with three eco-districts in Lyon, Marseille and Romainville. If these territories are marked by a referential of sustainable develop- ment and ecological transition, the analysis of the lifestyles of the working classes invites to go beyond the institutional and consensual discourses of ecology, far from being an object devoid of social tensions. In summer 2019, he takes part in an action research about the lived experience of climate change and ecological commitment by inhabitants of French cities. He details the results in his contribution in this book.

Brieuc BISSON

is a Ph.D. and Professeur Agrégé in Rennes 2 University in the west of France. He is part of the ESO – Espaces et Sociétés laboratory. His Ph.D., defended in 2019, focused on géophychological approaches related to urban.

Frédéric BLAISE

studied at ENSA Nantes, and worked as a mediator for the urban project of l’Ile de Nantes. After working in many architecture design studios, he cofounded the archi- tecture and urban planning studio ALT in 2018 after winning two urban design compe- titions and a call for project with the Pavillon de l’Arsenal.

Mohammed BOUBEZARI

is an architect Researcher at Lusófona University in Lisbon. Ph.D. in architecture, University of Nantes, architectural and urban ambiances option. DEA from CRESSON- Grenoble. Project Coordinator at Parque EXPO where he managed the study of the Algiers PDAU (Urban Planning Project and Strategy) from 2013 to 2017, with a vision for 20 years 2015-2035. Project Manager for the preparation of the Rehabilitation Operations of the Medina of Meknes in Morocco for the E.I.B-Luxembourg. Principal Investigator « EYE hEAR, Qualitative sound maps for visualization of the urban sound- scapes », FCT-financing.Pos-doctoral Fellow The Qualitative Representation of the Sound Space: “Analysis and qualitative representation of the soundscape”-FCT Grant.

Co-Responsible Investigator “Le médiat et l’immédiat, dans les espaces de sociabilité contemporains” PUCA-France financing. Has filed a patent for soundscape topography measuring tool. He is an international consultant on the question of the Plan of Algiers and its waterfront.

Sebastien BOURBONNAIS

is an associated researcher at Evcau and also working as a research consultant at Asynth. He received his MSc in philosophy at the University of Paris 8 and then his Ph.D. in 2014 from Laval University, Quebec, Canada, and the School of Architecture Paris-Malaquais, France. His research interests lie in the area of digital architecture and technical philosophy. He taught in several universities in France like Grenoble or Paris-La Villette and was a visiting professor at the School of Architecture Laval University. He actually works on an issue for the Encyclopaedia of Science on Instruments of Architectural Design as an editor and preparing an exhibition on the emergence of software dedicated to architectural design.

Vassilis BOURDAKIS

is an architect and is Professor of Architectural Design and Spatial Representational Techniques at the Department of Architecture (UTH). His research interests are inte- ractive digital models, VR and intelligent environments

José Luis CARLES

is a Ph.D. in Ecology and Composer. Full Professor at the Interfacultative Department of Music. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Responsible for different national and international research projects and deployed different media to communicate project activities, such as scientific publications, international conferences, sound art and audiovisual productions or through radio programs (www.

rtve.es/alacarta/audios/la-casa-del-sonido/). The projects are based on “in-situ”

urban explorations and methodologies working on specific urban sites. The aim of these projects are the development and implementation of new methodologies by

integrating scientific and artistic activities related to sensorial, ecological and social aspects of perception. Last Research Projects (Principal Researcher: Jose Luis Carles).

Space temporal Implications Musical Creation, Ref,: Har2011-23318 Funded By:

Ministry of Science and Innovation Spain January 2012-December 2015. Execution Center: Interfaculty Department of Music (Faculty of Arts. UAM). Soundscape as immaterial Heritage. New methodological confluences. Institute of Heritage of Spain.

Culture Ministry.

Raquel CASTRO

’s work draws upon the relationship between sound, environment and urbanism. She presents her work in multiple formats including soundscape research, documentary filmmaking and curation. She is the founder and director of Lisboa Soa Sound Art Festival and the International Symposium Invisible Places.

Thodoris CHALVATZOGLOU

is an architect and post-graduate student in MSc “Research in Architecture:

Design-Space-Culture” at the National Technical University of Athens. He has worked in architecture offices in Greece, the Netherlands and also as a researcher at the University of Thessaly. He frequently takes part in workshops and his work has been published in academic conferences.

Marília CHAVES

is an architect and Urban Designer from UFPE. Member of research group LASC – PROARQ/UFRJ. Main interests in research and project of leisure public spaces, user experience design, social housing, and ecological urbanism/architecture. Developed master thesis about micropolitics in daily usage of the space. Organized and coordi- nated one axis on the congress “Ressensitizing Cities – Urban ambiances and senses.”

Professional experience in housing and interior design, historical researches, analysis of built and perceived environment and viability studies.

Gregoire CHELKOFF

is an architect and doctor in urban planning, professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble and researcher at CRESSON (UMR AAU) where he directs thesis. He participated in the creation of the CRESSON laboratory in 1979 and was its director for eight years between 2000 and 2012. His publications resulting from some twenty research projects deal with the analysis, experimentation and design of architectural and urban environments and aim to develop specific tools in this respect. He undertook the experimentation of “architectural sound prototypes”, and is the scientific manager of the cartophonies.fr website and is co responsable of the research esquissons. In parallel with research on the auditory dimension and sound effects, he questions architecture and urbanities through ambiences in order to renew the stakes, methods and design tools involving sensitive and social interactions.

Edith CHEZEL

is an urban designer (MSc) and human geographer (Ph.D.). She is an associate lecturer and researcher at the school for architecture in Grenoble (France) within the Cresson laboratory (UMR AAU) and associate researcher at Grenoble Alpes University within the UMR Pacte laboratory. Her research focuses on the collective making of land- scapes, in a context of energy and agro-ecological transitions. Her approach and practice are namely based on anthropological and photographic field-work, as well as pragmatist philosophy and environmental humanities.

Gyungju CHYON

teaches Spatial Design at Monash University in Melbourne. She was Assistant Professor of MFA Industrial Design and BFA Product Design at Parsons School of Design in New York from 2016 through 2019. She earned her Ph.D. at RMIT University in Melbourne, an MA in furniture and interior architecture at Aalto University in Helsinki, and a BA from Hongik University in Seoul. Chyon’s work focuses on relationships between designed things, environments, and people through engaging natural phenomena and exploring materialities. Through her design studio Little Wonder, partnered with Dr.

John Sadar, she interpolates between installations and product design. Little Wonder has collaborated with international companies such as Rosenthal (DEU), Interface (USA), Duravit (DEU), Emotis (FRA), and Lucifer Lighting (USA). Little Wonder’s work has been globally exhibited in venues in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia.

Paul CRAENEN

is Research Professor at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague and guest professor at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He has been a music and sound art curator and is the composer of experimental works involving acoustic instruments, electronics and choreography. His book “Composing under the Skin. The music-making body at the composer’s desk” (2014) was published by Leuven University Press.

Eric CREVELS

is a Brazilian Architect and Urban Planner and a Ph.D. Candidate at the Methods of Analysis and Imagination Chair of the Faculty of Architecture at Technische Universiteit Delft, as a doctoral partner of the TACK – Communities of Tacit Knowledge Innovative Training Network. He holds a Masters and a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the Escola de Arquitetura of the Federal University of Minas Gerais.

His research addresses architectural production by the perspective of labour, looking to bridge the boundaries between theory and practice, and exploring the potentiality of crafts in participatory practices and in the empowerment of individuals and communities.

João CUNHA

holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from the Catholic University of Portugal, and a Degree in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon. His doctoral thesis, entitled “Representation, immersion and interiors: Cultures of Space in To the Lighthouse and Buddenbrooks”, provides a comparative reading of two emble- matic novels of the early 20^th century, regarding their spatial, architectural and cultural backdrop. He is an Assistant Professor as well as the Students Manager at the Depart- ment of Architecture and Urban Planning in Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias [ULHT], Lisbon, where he’s been teaching in undergraduate and post-gra- duate level. He’s a researcher at LEAU-ULHT and he’s been a speaker at international conferences on representation, culture, architecture and space. He’s also a writer of fiction, having been awarded the Gulbenkian Foundation/ Branquinho da Fonseca Literary Prize, to his novella Amor de Miraflores.

Federico DE MATTEIS

is an architect, is Associate Professor of Architectural Design at the University of L’Aquila, where he teaches Design studios at undergraduate and graduate level. He has earned a Master of Architecture summa cum laude (2000), Faculty of Architecture,

“Sapienza” University of Rome, a Master of Science with honors (2003), School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in Architecture (2004), “Sapienza”

University of Rome. He has written articles and monographs on various issues related