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Spatialities and Color

Spatialités et couleur

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Published on Thursday, February 27, 2025

Abstract

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This symposium offers an exploration of the many facets of color, intimately linked to diverse conceptions of spatialities/spaces. Through a series of presentations, we aim to highlight the complex relationship between the color studied and the space considered, by examining how these concepts influence and transform each other. The expected contributions define how color shapes our perception of space, and how space influences our experience of color, offering a situated view of color.  

Announcement

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Argument

On the occasion of the International Color Day (ICD), the section "Spatialities and Color" of the Encyclopédie Numérique des Couleurs (ENC), an open access online color encyclopedia, is hosting its first symposium. While color has been extensively studied (Roque, 1997; Caivano, 2006; Doherty, 2010;Schindler, 2017; Serra, 2019; Environmental Color, 2023; Engler, 2023), space remains a polysemous concept whose definition is   difficult to grasp insofar as it acquires all its richness by being determined through the nature of the relationships that humans establish with it. Shaped by social relations, a space conveys lived experiences (Thibaud, 2015).

As such, the term “space” is no longer used, but rather “spatiality”. By spatiality, the spatial dimension of social actions is referred to. This notion questions the way in which a user relates to space on a daily basis (Lévy and Lussault, 2013). Widely used in the current vocabulary of geography, spatiality focuses on how individuals interact with and shape the spaces around them (Lussault, 2007). "Spatialities and Color" investigates color through the prism of spatialities, focusing on three "colored" human universes that are at once assertive, integrative and plural, with reference to Sloterdijk’s spherology. (Sloterdijk, 2011, 2014, 2016). Sloterdijkian spherology describes an onto-spatiality that manifests itself in three types of experienced or lived spaces 

(a) macrospheres as a global space defined by a terrestrial integration into an inhabited space;

(b) microspheres as a human space characterized by a dynamic structure of cohesion devoid of true spatial dimensions; and

(c) atmospheres that define a plural space, a kind of reticular structure of phenomena and ambiences. The boundaries between these universes interweave, intersect or dissolve as spatial processes unfold and practices take hold.

We therefore propose a holarchical vision of spatialities at the crossroads of material spaces (materialities: architectural, urban, territorial, landscaped, geographical, etc.), "quasi-spaces" (immaterialities: poetic, digital, artistic, psychological, semiotic, etc.) and ambient spaces (phenomena: luminous, sonic, olfactory, aerodynamic, thermal, etc.) in order to examine a situated perception of color. There exists thus a threefold relationship
between human experience, color, and the surrounding space, which can be defined as a resonance, a mode of existence in the world, and a specific type of engagement with it, where subject and world interact and shape each other (Rosa, 2021; see also Griffero, 2014; Böhme, 2017).

This symposium proposes a series of presentations exploring the many dimensions of color intrinsically related to different concepts of spatiality/space, with the aim of producing a general understanding of "Spatialities and Color”.

Contributions will highlight the nature of the relationship between the space under consideration and the color being studied. They may also address the evolution of color and space over time.

Topics

Welcome are scholarly contributions from all disciplines including, but not limited to:

Materialities

Physical, concrete, and tangible spaces that surround us and constitute
the basis of research in Design Sciences: Architecture, Urbanism, Landscaping,
Environment, Territories, Art, Design, Creation, Lighting Design, Scenography, Space
Science, Practice.

Immaterialities

Abstract and intangible spaces of ideas, concepts, information, and
relationships in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology,
Anthropology, Culture, Aesthetics, Semiotics, Poetics, History, Epochs, Contexts, Time,
Performance, Virtual Reality, Transparency, AI, Mobility, Theory.

Ambient Spaces

Sensory spaces at the crossroads of the perceptible and physical
worlds: Atmospheres, Phenomenology, Senses, Sensations, Synesthesia,
Multisensoriality, Perception, Emotion, Memory, Consciousness, Experience,
Communication.

Abstract Submission

All abstract submissions must be in English and sent via email in a single Word document entitled “Last Name 2025 SC Symposium” to ecd.studygroup@yahoo.com

no later than 14 March 2025

 and include the following items:

1) an abstract (500 words)
2) a short bio
3) your full name and pronouns, email address, and professional affiliation.
Please use “2025 SC Symposium” in the subject line of the email.
Participation in this interdisciplinary international online symposium is free.
No organizational registration is required.

Presentations should be given in English and not exceed 15 minutes.
The 2025 SC Symposium will be held online on 27 March 2025.

Important Dates

  • 7 February 2025: Call for Abstracts

  • 14 March 2025: Abstract Submission Deadline

  • 20 March 2025: Notification of Acceptance
  • 27 March 2025: International Online Symposium “Spatialities and Color”

Organizers

  • Dr Faten Hussein, University of Carthage, National School of Architecture and Urbanism, Tunis (Tunisia)
  • Dr Juan Serra, Valencia Polytechnic University, School of Architecture, Valencia (Spain)
  • MSc Verena M. Schindler, International Colour Association (AIC) Study Group on Environmental Colour Design, Zollikon (Switzerland)
  • Dr Imène Slama, University of Sousse, Higher Institute of Fine Arts of Sousse, Sousse (Tunisia)

Scientific Committee

  • José Luis Caivano, University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Architecture, Research Program on Color and Visual Semiotics, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
  • Gareth Doherty, Harvard University, Critical Landscapes Design Lab, Cambridge MA (United States of America)
  • Faten Hussein, University of Carthage, National School of Architecture and Urbanism, Heritage, Architecture and Ambiances Research Lab, Tunis (Tunisia)
  • Georges Roque, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Center for Research on Art and Language, Paris (France)
  • Verena M. Schindler, International Colour Association (AIC) Study Group on Environmental Colour Design, Zollikon (Switzerland)
  • Juan Serra, Valencia Polytechnic University, Color Research Group in Architecture of the Heritage Restoration University Research Institute, Valencia (Spain)
  • Daniel Siret, Nantes School of Architecture, Urban Architecture Nantes Research Center, Nantes (France)

Editorial Committee

  • Imène Slama, University of Sousse, Higher Institute of Fine Arts of Sousse, Sousse (Tunisia)
  • Ichraf Aroua, University of Carthage, National School of Architecture and Urbanism, Tunis (Tunisia)
  • Wiem Alimi, University of Carthage, National School of Architecture and Urbanism, Tunis (Tunisia)
  • Nadia Bouzgarrou, University of Carthage, National School of Architecture and Urbanism, Tunis (Tunisia)

References

Böhme, Gernot (2017) The Aesthetics of Atmospheres. New York, NY: Routledge.
Caivano, José Luis (2006) Research on color in architecture and environmental design: Brief history, current developments, and possible future. Color Research and Application 31(4): 350-363. https://doi.org/10.1002/col.20224
Doherty, Gareth, Ed. (2010) New Geographies 03: Urbanisms of Color. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Encyclopédie Numérique des Couleurs, https://encyclopedienumeriquedescouleurs.com/ 
Engler, Mira. (2023) Landscape Design in Color: History, Theory, and Practice 1750 to Today. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Environmental Color Design Research (2023) Color Research and Application, Special Collection. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)1520-6378.environmental-color 
Griffero, Tonino (2014) Atmospheres: Aesthetics of Emotional Spaces. Farnham, UK: Ashgate.
Lévy, Jacques and Lussault, Michel (2013) Dictionnaire de la géographie et de l'espace des sociétés. Paris: Belin Éditeur.
Lussault, Michel (2007) L'Homme spatial: La construction sociale de l'espace humain. Paris: Éditions du Seuil.
Roque, Georges (1997) Art et science de la couleur: Chevreul et les peintres, de Delacroix à l’abstraction. Nîmes: Éditions Jacqueline Chambon.
Rosa, Hartmut (2018) Résonance, une sociologie de la relation au monde. Paris: Éditions La Découverte.
Schindler, Verena M. (2017) JAIC Special Issue on Colour and Light. Journal of the International Colour Association 17, i-iv. https://aic-color.org/journal-issues 
Serra, Juan (2019) Color for Architects. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press.
Sloterdijk, Peter (2011a) Bulles: Sphères I - Microsphérologie. Paris: Éditions Pluriel.
Sloterdijk, Peter (2011b) Globes: Sphères II - Macrosphérologie. Paris: Éditions Pluriel.
Sloterdijk, Peter (2013) Écumes: Sphères III - Sphérologie Plurielle. Paris: Éditions Pluriel.
Thibaud, Jean-Paul (2015) En quête d’ambiances: Éprouver la ville en passant. Genève: Éditions MētisPresses

Event attendance modalities

Full online event


Date(s)

  • Friday, March 14, 2025

Keywords

  • spatialité, couleur, matérialité, immatérialité, espace ambiant

Contact(s)

  • imène Slama
    courriel : imene [dot] slama [at] isbas [dot] rnu [dot] tn
  • Faten Hussein
    courriel : faten [dot] hussein [at] enau [dot] ucar [dot] tn

Information source

  • imène Slama
    courriel : imene [dot] slama [at] isbas [dot] rnu [dot] tn

License

CC-BY-4.0 This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International - CC BY 4.0 .

To cite this announcement

Verena M. Schindler, Faten Hussein, Imène Slama, « Spatialities and Color », Call for papers, Calenda, Published on Thursday, February 27, 2025, https://doi.org/10.58079/13dy9

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