Architecture, Milieu, Paysage

A crossover experiment was performed to determine whether age and sex, or their interaction, affect the impact of acute aerobic exercise on vigor-activity (VA). We also tested whether changes in VA mediated exercise effects on performance on various cognitive tasks. Sixty-eight physically inactive volunteers participated in exercise and TV-watching control conditions. They completed the VA subscale of the Profile of Mood States immediately before and 2 min after the intervention in each condition. They also performed the Trail Making Test 3 min after the intervention in each condition. Statistical analyses produced a condition . age . sex interaction characterized by a higher mean VA gain value in the exercise condition (compared with the VA gain value in the TV-watching condition) for young female participants only. In addition, the mediational analyses revealed that changes in VA fully mediated the effects of exercise on TMT-Part A performance.

Cet ouvrage introduit à l’observation et la compréhension du rapport à l’espace des acteurs sociaux. Son ambition est de rendre visible la considération apportée à l’espace par les individus (incarner, occuper, représenter, traverser). Quelle importance les gens ou les groupes sociaux accordent-ils à l’espace dans leurs pratiques sociales ? D’un point de vue matériel ou/et symbolique, comment l’espace se situe-t-il au cœur de leurs actions ? Ces questions amènent à considérer l'espace autrement que comme un cadre ou seulement une donnée physique. et à montrer comment il peut être un outil d’analyse à la fois pour les sciences sociales et pour les acteurs territoriaux.

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Enquiries into non-anthropogenic cultural landscapes, such as marine environments, reveal unsuspected dynamics due to the resurgence ofecosophies that are alien to the globalised economy and territorialisation as a basis for appropriation and subsequent indiscriminate exploitation. Disturbed by the wanderings of geo-engineering, several regions of the world have recently touched on key arguments with points in common that could revitalise nonhuman biospheres and, in them, human ones. When considering maritime dynamics, the ocean must be seen as an entity. Following the ever-inspiringhistorical literatures of Fernand Braudel and expanding on the “mediterraneity” he formulated, we would be testing another concept involving a change in mentality of governmentality: “maritoriums”, a conceptualisation from 1970s Chilean architecture. Based on case studies, we will discuss significant examples in the Mediterranean, the Caribbean and Asian oceans and rivers that contribute to the current debate on.

Recently there has been a new awareness among garden historians of the importance of movement in shaping the experience of a garden. Indeed, the garden exists for its visitors only inasmuch as its spaces have been discovered, sensed, “lived”. The garden is the garden explored. Promenade – a leisurely walk with no other end than itself – is thus a privileged activity to study spatial experience. Despite historians' awareness of an itinerary through the gardens devised by Louis XIV himself, Versailles has hardly been studied as a place for promenade. In my thesis I look at the experiential potential of the gardens of Versailles by combining 17th century descriptions of promenades in the garden and a phenomenological description of spatial experience corroborated by recent physiological research on perception. Thus, our ability to move defines the structures of the spatio-temporal modes of „here” and „there”. Through the changes or continuity in specific sensory experiences that occur as we move, the garden offers the possibility for heightened experiences of ‘here' – views, objects, spaces seen on axis - and ‘there' – distant views and objects that appear reachable. But more subtly, the garden can accompany the transition from the fulfillment of being ‘here' to the desire of going ‘there' and thus enrich our motion itself. Space is here conceived not as a backdrop that we see as we move, but as an invitation to motion, as a spatial dialogue taking the shape of a promenade. The richness of this dialogue in Versailles comes from the complexity of the choices offered to the promeneur, allowing one to build through time a meaningful aesthetic experience of the garden.

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