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Revue sur la recherche en architecture et urbanisme selon des approches basées sur le sensorium humai Voir les Non lu | Plus vieux en premierPsychiatric Atmospheres: Exploring the Potential of Hermann Schmitz’s New Phenomenology in Atmosphere‑sensitive Analysis of Psychiatric Hospital Architecture
RST Ambiances - Fil des documents par Eline L. van Leeuwen le 28/10/2025 à 01:00:00 - Favoriser || Lu/Non lu
The phenomenological approach occupies a central position in contemporary discourse on architectural design and atmospheric perception. Its cross-disciplinary applicability enables systematic engagement with questions of health, cognition, and embodied experience. This potential is especially relevant given architects’ expanding interest in the complex interplay between architecture, the mind, emotion, touch, and aesthetics. Despite this increasing popularity, systematic phenomenological analysis of healthcare architecture seems to be lacking. In this article, we utilise Hermann Schmitz’s new phenomenology to construct narrative case study descriptions of the atmospheric experiences in four psychiatric hospitals.
Results show that Schmitz’s phenomenology offers a versatile method for investigating various architectural environments, encouraging active bodily engagement and attentiveness to nuanced, transient aspects of atmospheric experience. The method allows us to approach architec...
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Park Patrol: Urban Securitisation, Racialised Policing, and the Everyday Struggle for Görlitzer Park
RST Ambiances - Fil des documents par Katharina Ciax le 27/10/2025 à 01:00:00 - Favoriser || Lu/Non lu
This paper examines how everyday security practices – such as patrols, identity checks and racial profiling – alter the spatialities of and felt realities in the Görlitzer Park in Berlin, which disproportionately affect marginalised groups, fostering feelings of insecurity and exclusion. It focuses on how institutional security measures – covering discursive, practice-based, and infrastructural modifications – have transformed the park into a space characterised by increased control. The ethnographic study reveals that security-driven urban design strategies, such as the use of surveillance technologies and spatio-material interventions, worsen exclusion and marginalisation, particularly through racialised policing and affective atmospheres of fear and control. Despite civic resistance and participatory initiatives advocating for equitable access, these institutional security practices persist, reflecting broader trends in the governance of urban spaces. By connecting securitisation...
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Atmosphere in film
RST Ambiances - Fil des documents par Rosine Bénard O’Kelly le 24/06/2025 à 02:00:00 - Favoriser || Lu/Non lu
In this introduction we outline the historical roots and philosophical underpinnings of the relationship between atmosphere and film, showing how atmosphere is an essential, if somewhat underexplored, characteristic of the cinematic form. We describe how subsidiary themes emerging from this fundamental connection, such as the creation of mood, modes of reception, the spectator’s cinematic experience and the roles of space, location, sound and technology are explored though the variety of case studies assembled here, which each focus on certain film works. We also identify and consider the questions raised by these papers about how technological processes may unsettle the relationship of a film to its location; the particular ontologies of documentary and ‘cinéma-vérité’; the forms and significances of the environmental forces in film; the reconstitution of a world through the emotions of spectatorship and the issues that may raise about directorial responsibility and ethics. Our con...
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Cultural scenes and atmospheres. Intersections, articulations, contextualisations
RST Ambiances - Fil des documents le 30/04/2025 à 02:00:00 - Favoriser || Lu/Non lu
Presentation
This call for papers proposes to bring together two fields of research that, until now, have largely existed independently of each other: the field of research on cultural scenes and that on ambiances and atmospheres. Their intersection – this is the hypothesis behind the proposal of this special issue – allows both fields of research to open up to promising lines of inquiry that have been little explored to date.
For the past twenty years, there has been a growing body of work seeking to explain the cultural effervescence, the dynamics of innovation or creativity that take shape in places, in territories (urban or otherwise), in public spaces based on the term “scene”, the “scene thinking” proposed by Woo et al. (2015). What is remarkable about approaches related to the notion of the “scene” is, first of all, their multidisciplinary nature. They are part of the “spatial turn” proposed by cultural studies perspectives (Guibert, 2012) and draw on research from disciplines ...
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Ambiances et scènes culturelles. Croisements, articulations, contextualisations
RST Ambiances - Fil des documents le 30/04/2025 à 02:00:00 - Favoriser || Lu/Non lu
Présentation
Cet appel à contribution propose de croiser deux champs de recherche qui, jusqu’à présent, ont principalement existé indépendamment l’un de l’autre : le champ de recherche sur les scènes culturelles et celui sur les ambiances et atmosphères. Leur croisement – c’est l’hypothèse qui anime la proposition de ce dossier thématique – permet pour les deux champs de recherche une ouverture vers des questionnements prometteurs à ce jour peu explorés.
Depuis une vingtaine d’années, se développent des travaux cherchant à expliciter l’effervescence culturelle, les dynamiques d’innovation ou créatives qui prennent corps au sein de lieux, de territoires (urbains ou non), d’espaces publics à partir du vocable de scène, le « scene thinking » proposé par Woo et al. (2015). Ce qui est remarquable avec les démarches se revendiquant de la « scene », c’est d’abord leur pluridisciplinarité. Elles s’inscrivent en effet dans le « spatial turn » proposé par les perspectives en cultural studies (G...