Sentir le mouvement, éprouver la ville

Abstract

With the sustainable development and the criticisms linked to the denaturing of urban landscapes, urbanization can no longer be established without thinking its relation to nature and the landscape. For our hypothesis, the sensitive landscape (taking into account feelings, affects, emotions and imaginations) is a key component of the quality of future urban spaces. But how to define a sense of landscape and translate it into an urban project ? Can it allow an urban evolution more respectful of the sensitive relationship that human have with the places and the landscapes ? To answer to its questions, we propose to refer on the research, Fabrique ACTive du paysage. FACT search to understand what the urban basis of the feelings of landscape is and what a sensitive urban intervention in an ordinary territory of Paris-Seine-Saint-Denis, L’Ile-Saint-Denis could be. This research shows that the feeling of nature and urban landscape are interdependent. The citizens are able to experience a landscape when the urban spaces have an horizon of nature. It also reveals that sensitive experiences are a foundation of our apprehension of places. It calls for new methodology able to collect urban feeling and urban signs of the sensitive in the places themselves (symbols, traces, sensory and affective feelings). Finally, it shows the importance of movement to experience and feel the urban landscape.

Keywords

• landscape
• urban project
• sensitive (city)
• sense
• movement