Urban Design & Urban Society
The emergence of urban atmospheres between design practice and social invention
6-8 October 2011, University of Munich, Department of Geography
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Troisième séminaire et workshop organisé par le réseau ambiancesDans le cadre du Réseau International Ambiances, ce troisième séminaire propose d’aborder la question du rôle du design urbain et des activités humaines dans l’émergence des ambiances urbaines. L’espace urbain, lieu de complexité, organise une pluralité de facteurs à l’origine du développement des ambiances, parmi lesquels la « forme », considérée au sens large, joue un rôle important. La conférence, cherche ainsi à adresser ce thème par l’intermédiaire de la thématique du design urbain, en posant la question de l’émergence des ambiances au croisement de l’intention conceptrice sur le lieu et des pratiques sociales qui s’y déploient. En effet, il apparaît d’une part dans le discours des concepteurs une volonté de création, ou de maîtrise des ambiances. D’autre part, les activités humaines, leurs effets corporels et symboliques, jouent également dans l’émergence et la caractérisation des ambiances. | Third edition of the International Ambiances Network seminar and workshopUnder the aegis of the International Ambiances Network this conference aims to address the role of urban design and human activities in the emergence of urban atmosphere(s). Urban space is complex, bringing into play numerous factors which may prompt the formation of atmosphere(s). Of these factors the material environment, in the broad sense of the term, plays an important part. The conference will seek to address this topic by looking at urban design, in particular the question of how atmospheres take form at the meeting point between the desire to design at a given place and the social practices which unfold there. On the one hand the discourse of designers expresses the will to create, or at least control, atmospheres. On the other hand human activities, with their corporeal and symbolic effects, also play a part in bringing out and colouring atmosphere(s). |
| Organisation : Damien Masson, Rainer Kazig, Monika Popp | Organization: Rainer Kazig, Monika Popp, Damien Masson |
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Thursday, Oct. 6th
14:00 . Henry Torgue (Cresson, France) Presentation of Cresson Laboratory.
14:15 Session 1 – Designing Atmospheres !?
- Monica Degen (Brunel University, England), Clare Melhuish (Brunel University, England) & Gillian Rose (Open University, England) - Architectural atmospheres, branding and the social: the role of digital visual izing technologies in contemporary architectural practice’.
- Jeppe Trolle Linnet (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) - Coziness in cafés and shops: The commercial organization of the social.
- John Levack Drever (Unit for Sound Practice Research, Goldsmiths, University of London) - Sanitary Ambiance: a study of current auditory ambiances of public toilets in England.
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Session 2 – From the Design of Atmospheres to Conceptual Thoughts
- Thomas Dörfler & Carsten Manns (University of Göttingen, Germany) - Atmospheres – a neglected phenomenon of socio-spatial research.
- Achim Hahn (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany) - How to get into a special mood?
- Theresia Leuenberger (TU Darmstadt, Germany & Rotterdam) - How do buildings shape “urban atmospheres”?
19:30 Dinner (Bavarian Ambiance)
Friday, Oct. 7th
09:00 Session 3 – Designing Security: what about atmospheres?
- Héloïse Pagnac-Baudry (GRECAU, France & LABQUS, Italy), Clara Cardia (LABQUS, Italy) & Catherine Semidor (GRECAU, France) - Crime Prevention through Environmental Design & sustainable urban design.
- Faten Hussein (CERMA, France) - Detection of situations of disabilities faced by presbycusis seniors in urban space via audio textures.
09:45 Coffee break
- Emmanuelle Lenel (CES/FUSL, Belgium) - Securing a public playing field: The Belgian political device of “neighbour hood contract” as governance of the private environment”.
- Thomas Bürk (Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung, Germany) - `Spaces of fear´ as contingent terms of the urban order.
11:45 Session 4 – Fragmented Cities/Fragmented Atmospheres !?
- Noha Said (CRESSON, France & Ain Shams University, Egypt) - Cairo behind the gates: Studying the sensory configuration of Al-Rehab City.
- Niels Albertsen (Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark) - Atmospheres in the city with/out limits.
13:00 Lunch
15:00 Workshop – Atmospheres in the Digital City
19:30 Dinner (Cool Atmosphere)
Saturday, Oct. 8th
09:00 Session 5 – Resisting bodies: provoking atmospheres
- Christoph Michels (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland) - (Up)Setting the rhythm of the creative city. A case study on the aesthetic (re) organization of public spaces.
- Arnaud Hollard (EHESS, ENSag-LMA, France) - Disturbing place and memory: sounds of a transforming city.
- Carsten Friberg (Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark) - Performing Everyday Practices. Reflections on a Bodily Intervention in Urban Places.
10:40 Coffee break
- Lars Frers (University of Hamburg, Germany) - Sounds of … something. Negotiating noises and voices.
- Anna Juan (Université Jean-Monnet, France) & Íñigo Sánchez (INET, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) - Resiliences, Concealments and Disruptions in Banalscapes: The Case of Barcelona’s Waterfront.
12:15 Reflections on the Conference
- Jean-Paul Thibaud (CRESSON, France; Ambiances Network Coordinator)
- Rachel Thomas (CRESSON, France),
- Clemens Breuninger (indicatus GbR, Germany)
PM Afternoon Additional Programme
Urban Design Walking Tour
