L’emprise des techniques ? Penser l’expérience urbaine conditionnée à partir du cinéma

Abstract

To what extent does cinema represent a resource to reflect on the evolutions of inhabited environments and, more specifically, to grasp the stakes and forces of an architectural and urban experience that is increasingly conditioned? This article aims to answer this question using three fictions – Die Hard, The Truman Show and Ocean’s Eleven – which are three films that allow to grasp conditioning from the standpoint of experience. The analysis, focused on technical and ambiance mechanisms as affordances, reveals four modalities of the experience of hyper-conditioned spaces: familiarization/defamiliarization, sabotage, interference, and immunisation.

Keywords

• Fiction Movie
• Experience
• Techniques
• Affordances