[Architecture as experience, living differently with the philosophy of John Dewey]

Abstract

If architecture can be considered an art form, it is at the cost of reconfiguring what we consider to be an aesthetic experience. Thus conceived as processes, not finished objects, refuting the separation between the active creator and the passive spectator and between ideas, actions and affects, the architectural projects accompanied and documented by the urban and architectural experiments laboratory la Preuve par 7 engage a collective, experimental, sensitive and political understanding of their discipline.

Keywords: John Dewey; architecture; experiment; experimentation; expérience; expérimentation; philosophie; philosophy; pragmatism; pragmatisme; urbanism; urbanisme.