After the Congresses of Grenoble (Creating an Atmosphere, 2008), Montreal (Ambiances in Action, 2012), Volos (Ambiances, Tomorrow: The Future of Ambiances, 2016), the online 4th edition (Ambiances, Alloaesthesia: Senses, Inventions, Worlds, 2020) this 5th edition questions the sensory explorations of ambiances in a changing world. 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.

This congress aims to bring together scientific contributions coming from 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. Organised in more than fifty themed sessions in Lisbon and Rio de janeiro, the presentations will 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. 

ORGANISATION

The congress is organised by Lusófona University in Lisbon, The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Rio de Janeiro with the help of the International Ambiances Network, Scientific and Thematic Network of the French Ministry of Culture.

 This initiative is funded by:

    •    Grenoble School of Higher Studies in 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,    

    •    Université Grenoble Alpes

Partners:

    •    CY Cergy Paris University,

    •    University of Thessaly,

    •    Nantes School of Higher Studies in Architecture (sous réserve)

    •    French Ministry of Culture, bureau de l’enseignement et de la recherche en architecture

    •    Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

    •    Audencia, Ecole Centrale de Nantes

Chairs and Committees

Steering Committee

Mohammed Boubezari, Cristiane Rose Duarte, Damien Mason, Ethel Pinheiro and Nicolas Remy.

Organising Committee

LISBON

Isabel Barbas, João Borges da Cunha, Crisolita Fonsceca, 

RIO DE JANEIRO

Alda Ferreira, Barbara Thomaz, Barbara Whats, Cândida Zirgoni, Felipe Barros, Fernanda Freitas, Fernando Mathias, Ilana Sancovschi, Katia de Paula, Lígia Castanheira, Nataly Carvalho, Pamela Paris, Sonia Castanheira, Taiane Marcela Alves.

Scientific Committee

Peter ADEY, Royal Holloway University of London, UK 

Pascal, AMPHOUX, Laboratoire AAU, CRESSON, France 

Niels, ALBERTSEN , Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark

Suzel, BALEZ Laboratoire AAU, Cresson, France 

Olivier, BALAŸ, Laboratoire AAU, CRESSON, France 

Giselle, Arteiro Nielsen AZEVEDO, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Brasil 

Alia, BEN AYED, Ecole Nationale d’Architecture et d’Urbanisme, Laboratoire ERA, Tunisia 

Paola, BERENSTEIN JACQUES, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brasil 

Arnold, BERLEANT , Long Island University, EUA 

Emeline, BAILLY, CSTB , France

Mikkel, BILLE, Roskilde University, Denmark

Anne, BOSSE, Laboratoire AAU, Crenau, France 

Jose-Luis, CARLES, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain 

Grégoire, CHELKOFF, Laboratoire AAU, DRESSON, France 

Claude, DEMERS, Uqam, Canada 

Laurent, DEVISME, Laboratoire AAU, Crenau, France 

Cristiane Rose, DUARTE, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Brasil 

Fabiana, DULTRA BRITTO, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brasil 

Tim, EDENSOR, University of Manchester, UK 

Gleice Azambuja, ELALI, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil 

Auxiliadora, GALVEZ PEREZ, San Pablo C.E.U EPS Faculty of Architecture, Spain 

Matthew, GANDY, University of Cambridge, UK 

Tonino, GRIFFERO, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy 

David, HOWES, Université Concordia, Canada 

Helmi, JÄRVILUOMA-MÄKELÄ, University of Eastern Finland, Finlandia 

Andrea, JELIC, KU Leuven, Belgium

Evelyn, Werneck LIMA, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil 

Thomas, LEDUC, Laboratoire AAU, Crenau, France 

Laurent, LESCOP, Laboratoire AAU, Crenau, France 

Théa, MANOLA, Laboratoire AAU, CRESSON, France 

Damien, MASSON, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France 

Olfa, MEZIOU, Ecole Nationale d’Architecture et d’Urbanisme, Laboratoire ERA, Tunisia 

Cybelle, Salvad or MIRANDA, Universidade Federal do Pará, Brasil 

Ethel, PINHEIRO, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Brasil 

Andrea, Queiroz REGO, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Brasil 

Nicolas, REMY, Université de Thessalie, Greece 

Paulo Afonso, RHEINGANTZ, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Brasil 

Ignacio, REQUENA, Laboratoire AAU, Crenau, France 

Myriam, SERVIERES, Laboratoire AAU, Crenau, France 

Luiz de Jesus, Dias da SILVA, Universidade Federal do Pará, Brasil 

Paul, SIMPSON, University of Plymouth ,  UK 

Daniel, SIRET, Laboratoire AAU, Crenau, France 

Aleksandar, STANIČIĆ, TU Delft, Holland 

Shanti, SUMARTOJO, Monash University, Australia 

Vera Regina, TANGARI, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Brasil 

Jean-Paul, THIBAUD, Laboratoire AAU, CRESSON, France 

Rachel, THOMAS, Laboratoire AAU, CRESSON, France 

Vincent, TOURRE, Laboratoire AAU, CRESSON, France 

Nicolas, TIXIER, Laboratoire AAU, CRESSON, France 

Carolina, VASILIKOU, University of Reading, UK 

Maísa, VELOSO, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil 

Martin, WELTON, Queen Mary University of London, UK 

Izabella, WIECZOREK, University of Reading, UK

Abstracts Submissions

 Opens very soon. 

Important Dates

08 to 11

OCT

Sessions

LISBON

1    A pedestrian's view of the city. 

2    Alienating Ambiance Induced by Sensorial Oversaturation: Unveiling the “Disneylandisation” phenomenon 

3    Architecture and health.

4    “Art as Document”, Opening Historical Archive to artistic registers in Architecture.

5    Attuning with the World: Imagining and Making Atmospheres. 

6    Awakening Urban Terrain Through Translations Across Sensory Atmospheres.

7    Ecological micro-urbanities. 

8    Existential corpography. [THIS SESSION WILL ALSO TAKE PLACE IN RIO DE JANEIRO] 

9    Fiction as research. 

10    Images and the Automation of Sense. 

11    Immersive experience as a scientific, creative and pedagogical tool.

12    Instrumentarium of Architectural and Urban Ambiances, Spatialisation of the Sensible in the Project. 

13    Negative urban atmospheres.

14    Olfactive Design. The birth of a discipline.

15    Participatory Regenerative Urban Development: 'ambiancing' the ecological transition.

16    Politicising Ambiances in a Turbulent World. 

17    Sad atmospheres and despairing cities.

18    Sensitive approaches in urban-scale project processes. 

19    Sensory Design and its Management Implications for Art and Tourism Places.

20    Smell of Nature: Rethinking Scent Ecology in the Post-Pandemic and Climate Change Context. 

21    Sounds, Cities, Art, and Ecology. 

22    Sustainable and resilient cities from the perspective of systems thinking.  

23    Teaching the ambient Project.

24    The fluvial urban landscape - in search of a new urban ambiance for rivers.

25    The sensory and sensitive identity of Mediterranean cities.  

26    The urban and landscape ambiances during and post-pandemic.

27    Thinking Ambiences Through Experimentation: A Research and Teaching Resource Through Experience.

28    Toward an Ambiantal Care.

29    Unbidden, unnamed, uncomfortable: ambiances beyond the binary. 

30    Urban Temporalities between heritage and projection. 

RIO DE JANEIRO

31    Ambiance and Artificial Intelligence. 

32    Ambiance et propagations. 

33    Ambiances and Displacement. 

34    Ambiances and social identity.

35    Ambient resonance and eco-construction.

36    Beyond the predictable: exploring ambiances in everyday life in cities.

37    City, Forest – Atmospherics of cultural and environmental activism.

38    Climatic backgrounds and climatic textures of ambiances. 

39    Creative ambiances in public spaces.

40    Existential corpography. [THIS SESSION WILL ALSO TAKE PLACE IN LISBON]   

41    Experimentations, drifts and deambulatory poetics.

42    Metabolic Atmospheres.

43    Insurgent Urban Narratives in/from the Post-Pandemic World.

44    Spacing out in the city - urban imaginaries and ambiances.

45    Spatialities of participation: other systems of sensibility between art and architecture. 

46    Sympathy, vulnerability, and ambiance creation.

47    The infinite art of Radio.

48    The role of time in the shaping of urban ambiances: exploring newly-built neighbourhoods.

49    To speak of oneself is to speak of the world: auto-ethnography, memories and ambiances. 

50    Urban ambiances and affection: methodological proposals.

51    Virtual ambiances and new ways of interaction in teaching and learning in architecture, urbanism and landscaping.

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