L’APPROCHE SENSORIELLE : DE LA PENSEE SCIENTIFIQUE A LA PRATIQUE PEDAGOGIQUE
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This work is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration involving experts from the disciplines of architecture, urban planning, psychology and signal processing. It explains how to capture the unseizable and evaluate the ambient quality of spaces, as well as the perception of their users. This research places affective experience at the heart of its scientific and pedagogical concerns.
Our main spatial analysis tool was affective response (PENEAU, 2012) to study users' experiences and perceptions in architectural and urban environments. This enabled us to understand how emotions can influence the way we perceive and interact with space.
Our research work is divided into two phases (LAYEB et AL., 2014; 2016; 2019; 2022). A first work was dedicated to the urban user experience in downtown Tunis in order to identify stressful spatial and atmospheric configurations that affect the well-being, perception and emotion of the urban user.
Our work was then extended to specific users with sensory disorders, whose perception is described as impaired. We followed autistic subjects during their daily journeys in their care centers. We were able to study their sensory profiles (DUNN, 2007) through behavioral analysis.
The results of this research open up new avenues of reflection on how we teach architectural and urban design, which can be influenced by users' spatial perceptions and sensitive, affective experiences.
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