Abstract

Through an atmospherological approach, primarily inspired by the so-called Aisthetik or New Aesthetics and the New Phenomenology, the paper defines the atmospheric perception as a first pathemic impression and investigates the relationship between this kind of perception and the expressive qualities of the surrounding spaces. The aim is to understand atmospheres as affordances that permeate the lived space, namely as ‘ecological’ and affective invites or meanings which are ontologically rooted in things and quasi-things.