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Ambiances, Atmospheres and Sensory Experiences of Spaces


About the Series

To submit a book proposal or to discuss an idea, please contact Faye Leerink, Commissioning Editor: [email protected]

Research on ambiances and atmospheres has grown significantly in recent years in a range of disciplines, including Francophone architecture and urban studies, German research related to philosophy and aesthetics, and a growing range of Anglophone research on affective atmospheres within human geography and sociology.

This series offers a forum for research that engages with questions around ambiances and atmospheres in exploring their significances in understanding social life. Each book in the series advances some combination of theoretical understandings, practical knowledges and methodological approaches. More specifically, a range of key questions which contributions to the series seek to address includes:

  • In what ways do ambiances and atmospheres play a part in the unfolding of social life in a variety of settings?
  • What kinds of ethical, aesthetic, and political possibilities might be opened up and cultivated through a focus on atmospheres/ambiances?
  • How do actors such as planners, architects, managers, commercial interests and public authorities actively engage with ambiances and atmospheres or seek to shape them? How might these ambiances and atmospheres be reshaped towards critical ends?
  • What original forms of representations can be found today to (re)present the sensory, the atmospheric, the experiential?  What sort of writing, modes of expression, or vocabulary is required? What research methodologies and practices might we employ in engaging with ambiances and atmospheres?

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Creative Urban Atmospheres Sensory Interventions and Tactical Imaginaries

Creative Urban Atmospheres: Sensory Interventions and Tactical Imaginaries

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Nicola Di Croce
July 11, 2025

Creative Urban Atmospheres explores the potential for urban planners, researchers and artists to intervene in the atmosphere of spectacle dominating current neoliberal urbanism strategies through sensory and sound-based artistic interventions drawing from Tactical Urbanism and Research-Creation. ...

Silence, Sounds, Music Acoustic Dimensions of Immersion

Silence, Sounds, Music: Acoustic Dimensions of Immersion

1st Edition

Edited By Florian Freitag, Laura Katharina Mücke, Peter Niedermüller
February 20, 2025

This book examines the intersections of silence with immersive arts and experiences. Silence and immersion may seem antithetical: while immersion is supposedly induced by acoustic and other stimuli, silence is commonly understood as the absence or opposite of sound. Since the eighteenth century, ...

Aesthetics of Participation Atmosphere, Design, and Experience at the Oslo Opera House

Aesthetics of Participation: Atmosphere, Design, and Experience at the Oslo Opera House

1st Edition

By Jeremy Hektor Payne-Frank
December 31, 2024

This book explores the way people participate with the Oslo Opera House, Norway. As an iconic and culture-led building, these different modes of participation reveal the tensions between staged space and individual experience. Movement, materiality, light, and art are viewed through an atmospheric ...

Sensory Transformations Environments, Technologies, Sensobiographies

Sensory Transformations: Environments, Technologies, Sensobiographies

1st Edition

Edited By Helmi Järviluoma, Lesley Murray
October 09, 2024

This book offers original insights into cultural transformations of the sensory with particular emphasis on environments and technologies, articulating a special moment in the sensory history of urban Europe as people’s relationship with their environment is increasingly shaped through digital ...

Ambiance, Tourism and the City

Ambiance, Tourism and the City

1st Edition

Edited By Iñigo Sánchez-Fuarros, Daniel Paiva, Daniel Malet Calvo
October 08, 2024

Ambiance, Tourism and the City considers how tourism and urban development affect the lived ambiances of contemporary cities around the world. As most of the existing literature on sensory atmospheres says little about the intersection between tourism and atmospheric production, this book affirms ...

The Atmospheric City

The Atmospheric City

1st Edition

By Mikkel Bille, Siri Schwabe
October 07, 2024

The Atmospheric City explores how people make sense of the feelings they get in and of urban spaces. Based on ethnographic fieldwork of everyday life in Copenhagen, Oslo, and Stockholm, it focuses on the atmospheric power of people, places, and phenomena. While the predominant focus of current ...

Atmosphere in Urban Design A Workplace Ethnography of an Architecture Practice

Atmosphere in Urban Design: A Workplace Ethnography of an Architecture Practice

1st Edition

By Anette Stenslund
May 27, 2024

This book offers an ethnographic exploration of the role that atmosphere plays in work processes undertaken within an urban design studio. It provides understandings of how architectural practices are fuelled with atmosphere in various configurations throughout different design phases of selected ...

Atmospheres and Shared Emotions

Atmospheres and Shared Emotions

1st Edition

Edited By Dylan Trigg
May 31, 2023

This book explores the role atmospheres play in shared emotion. With insights from leading scholars in the field, Atmospheres and Shared Emotions investigates key issues such as the relation between atmospheres and moods, how atmospheres define psychopathological conditions such as anxiety and ...

Affective Spaces Architecture and the Living Body

Affective Spaces: Architecture and the Living Body

1st Edition

By Federico De Matteis
May 30, 2022

This book explores the notion of affective space in relation to architecture. It helps to clarify the first-person, direct experience of the environment and how it impacts a person’s emotional states, influencing their perception of the world around them. Affective space has become a central notion...

Rethinking Darkness Cultures, Histories, Practices

Rethinking Darkness: Cultures, Histories, Practices

1st Edition

Edited By Nick Dunn, Tim Edensor
April 29, 2022

This book examines the concept of darkness through a range of cultures, histories, practices and experiences. It engages with darkness beyond its binary positioning against light to advance a critical understanding of the ways in which darkness can be experienced, practised and conceptualised. ...

Sensing Art in the Atmosphere Elemental Lures and Aerosolar Practices

Sensing Art in the Atmosphere: Elemental Lures and Aerosolar Practices

1st Edition

By Sasha Engelmann
April 29, 2022

This book engages artistic interventions in the aerial elements to investigate the aesthetics and politics of atmosphere. Sensing Art in the Atmosphere: Elemental Lures and Aerosolar Practices traces the potential of artistic, community-driven experiments to amplify our sensing of atmosphere, ...

The Phenomenology of Traffic Experiencing Mobility in Ho Chi Minh City

The Phenomenology of Traffic: Experiencing Mobility in Ho Chi Minh City

1st Edition

By Glenn Wyatt
April 29, 2022

The book delves into the affective, embodied, and sensory dimensions of traffic and urban mobility. It brings together key phenomenological and post-phenomenological readings to challenge taken for granted assumptions of urban traffic. Through the experiences of traffic users in Ho Chi Minh City, ...

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