Le corps comme lieu de l'expérience des espaces muséaux et architecturaux

The body as a locus for the experience of museum and architectural spaces

• Auteur / Autrice : Marcus Weisen
• Direction : Claire Petitmengin
• Type : Projet de thèse
• Discipline(s) : Philosophie
• Date : Inscription en doctorat le 01/11/2015
• Etablissement(s) : Université Paris sciences et lettres
• Ecole(s) doctorale(s) : École doctorale Lettres, Arts, Sciences humaines et sociales (Paris ; 2010-....)

Mots clés

Mots clés libres

Expérience corporelle

Expérience esthétique

Espace architectural

Cognition

Emotion

Recherche à la 1ière personne

Bodily experience

Aesthtetic experience

Architectural space

Cognition

Emotion

First person research

Résumé

A venir au d'ici fin mars 2016. Veuillez lire la description anglaise entre-temps. Merci.

This doctoral research investigates bodily experience of architectural spaces in museums. It focuses on the encounter between the lived body (der Leib, la chair) and museums recently built by architects with an affinity for phenomenology. It pays particular attention to largely pre-reflective processes of emergence of sensation, emotion and thought in the multi-sensory experience of architecture. Empirical Research: Fifty ''expert users'' with a keen sense of bodily and spatial awareness (e.g. architectural flâneurs, contemporary dancers, yoga practitioners) will visit an outstanding architectural space and an immersive art work designed to enable rich sensory and bodily experiences (e.g. a building by Peter Zumthor, a work by Olafur Eliasson). Participants will evoke and describe their experiences in a new micro-phenomenological interview method highly suited for the study of sensory experience and processes of emergence of sensation, emotion and thought - which all play an important part in aesthetic experience. The method is called ''entretien d'explication'' (elicitation interview''). It was developed in the 19 eighties by Pierre Vermersch for the study of cognitive processes in education. It has been extended its application to pre-reflective experiences to other areas of subjective experience, such as scientific intuition and meditation. The method made it possible to identify the largely pre-reflective warning signs of epileptic fits. Its uses have today extended to the study of e.g. reading and playing music. Theory: The research will empirically verify some recurrent themes in architectural phenomenology and phenomenology (e.g. the affirmation of permeable subject-object boundaries in lived experience). The findings will be brought into dialogue with hypotheses, explanatory models and theories in architecture, phenomenology, aesthetics and cognitive/experimental aesthetics. Expected Outcomes: New, more fine-grained phenomenological descriptions of the dynamics of architectural experience, that opens up a field for a trans-disciplinary dialogue about the study of the aesthetic experience of architectural spaces. Context: The study of bodily experience of museums hardly exists and focuses mostly on static sight - although phenomenology and neuro-sciences demonstrate the inseparability of seeing and movement. The role of skin sensations and inner bodily sensations in the architectural experience is barely studied at all. This research is deliberately rooted in the study of situated spatial experiences within outstanding museum spaces, to open up the possibility for gaining in-depth insights into aesthetic experience, including its emotional power.