The Sensory Fabric of Urban Ambiances
By J. Thibaud. 2011
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ABSTRACT The domain of urban ambiances has developed apace over the past twenty years. It was introduced in order to describe and design the sensory fabric of the urban world more effectively. An ambiance can be provisionally defined as a space-time qualified from a sensory perspective. It involves a socio-aesthetic approach that enables us to grasp everyday urban atmospheres. The aim of this article is to highlight the close links between ambiance and perception. We shall seek to demonstrate that one of the key imperatives for the notion of ambiance is a reappraisal of the situational, sensory, and practical character of perception. Three main arguments are developed: ambiance can be characterized as the quality of a situation, as a motor stimulation, and as a sensory background.
Subfields: Building and Construction, Cognitive Neuroscience
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Citations in the corpus
- Illuminated Atmospheres: Anticipating and Reproducing the Flow of Affective Experience in Blackpool (2012, background): “As material entities, illuminations “radiate presence, projecting their qualities outwards and colouring the environs” (Thibaud, 2011, page 211).”
- Reconnecting with darkness: gloomy landscapes, lightless places (2013, background): “…lower levels of light, there is a diminution of colour, as the landscape devolves into a pared down palette of blacks and greys in which other colours can no longer tincture surrounding space, ‘radiate presence, projecting their qualities outwards and colouring the environs’ (Thibaud 2011: 211).”