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Sasha Engelmann is a London-based geographer exploring interdisciplinary, feminist, and creative approaches to environmental knowledge making. Her current AHRC funded project - Advancing Feminist and Creative Methods for Sensing Air and Atmosphere - explores the value of feminist principles, creative practices and design justice tools for citizen-led monitoring of air quality and weather patterns in a time of climate crisis. Sasha's research contributes to the growing discipline of the GeoHumanities, a field animated by practice-based collaborations between geographers and artists.
Together with researcher and designer Sophie Dyer, Sasha leads the feminist radio project open-weather. Open-weather is a collective experiment in imaging and imagining the Earth and its weather systems. Founded in April 2020, the project encompasses a series of how-to guides, critical frameworks and public workshops on the reception of satellite imagery using free or inexpensive amateur radio technologies. In the tradition of intersectional feminism, open-weather investigates the politics of location and interlocking oppressions that shape our capacities to observe, negotiate, and respond to the climate crisis. In doing so, open-weather challenges dominant representations of earth and environment while complicating ideas of the weather beyond the meteorological.
Between 2013 and 2016 Sasha conducted site-based, ethnographic fieldwork at Studio Tomás Saraceno in Berlin. This fieldwork included joining this major contemporary art studio as a practitioner, and collaborating with Saraceno and his studio team on exhibitions, residencies, writing and the Aerocene project. Sasha remains a collaborator of Studio Saraceno and has organized launches of Aerocene sculptures in various parts of the UK, and with her third year undergraduate students at Royal Holloway.
She is on Twitter @sashacakes.
- Creative Geographies
- Geographies of Air and Atmosphere
- Environmental Sensing
- Intersectional feminism
- Art-Science Collaboration
- Nonrepresentational Theories
- Design Justice
Sasha teaches at undergraduate and masters levels, and is also advising doctoral projects. In particular:
Before joining Royal Holloway's staff team, and together with fantastic colleagues from art, architecture, critical theory and planning, Sasha designed a delivered a new two-year curriculum for Art in the Anthropocene at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Geography and the Environment, Doctor of Philosophy , The Cosmological Aesthetics of Tomás Saraceno's Atmospheric Experiments, University of Oxford
Award Date: 15 Jul 2017
Nature, Society and Environmental Policy , MPhil , University of Oxford
Award Date: 1 Oct 2013
Earth Sciences, BS, Biosphere, Stanford University
Award Date: 1 Jun 2011
English and French Literatures, BA, Stanford University
Award Date: 1 Jun 2011
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Engelmann, S. (PI)
1/03/24 → 28/02/25
Project: Research
Engelmann, S. (Fellow) & Hawkins, H. (Mentor)
Arts & Humanities Res Coun AHRC
1/10/22 → 30/09/24
Project: Research
Adey, P. (PI), Della Dora, V. (CoI), Hawkins, H. (CoI), Engelmann, S. (CoI), Gigliotti, S. (CoI) & Cornish, C. (CoI)
Economic & Social Res Coun ESRC
1/02/22 → 31/07/23
Project: Research
Engelmann, S. (PI), Kuenzel, S. (CoI), Tisan, A.-S. (CoI), Fisher, R. (CoI), Lowry, D. (CoI), Nisbet-Jones, P. (CoI), Adey, P. (CoI), Clemitshaw, K. (CoI), France, J. (CoI) & Johnstone, A. (CoI)
1/04/20 → 31/07/21
Project: Research
Adey, P. (Organiser), Engelmann, S. (Organiser), Joyce, M. (Organiser), Petele, G. (Organiser) & Squire, R. (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course