Jean-François Augoyard, an explorer of the sensory world

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is senior researcher at CNRS (France). After studying philosophy (research on Giordano Bruno), aesthetics and musicology (Conservatoire National of Lyon and Gregorian Institute), he started teaching in the French national education system. He then carried out his doctorate in urban studies and practiced urban planning in Paris. In 1975, he started a new path as a researcher in urban sociology and environmental anthropology, while he continued teaching in several universities (Vincennes, Paris VI, Grenoble 2), and at the Graduate School of Architecture of Grenoble since 1976. In collaboration with Jean-Jacques Delétré, he created the Centre de recherche sur l'espace sonore (CRESSON-https://aau.archi.fr/ cresson) in 1979. Along with Jean-Pierre Peneau, he also created the Ambiances architecturales et urbaines Joint Research Unit (UMR-CNRS/Ministry of Culture) in 1998. He is co-director of a French doctoral programme on architectural and urban ambiances. Moreover, Jean-François Augoyard edited the "Ambiance, ambiances" collection for the A la Croisée Editions (9 books). 2 His main studies revolve around the perception of space and social conducts in the city, around the interdisciplinary methodology of the sensory environment (sound, light, smells), around the theory of architectural and urban ambiances and around the aesthetic experience in an urban milieu 1. In France or abroad, he is an expert and member of several scientific or academic committees on the urban environment, landscape, public space and on the relations between art and city. Jean-François Augoyard, an explorer of the sensory world Ambiances , Redécouvertes