Sasha Engelmann is a cultural geographer exploring interdisciplinary, feminist, and creative approaches to environmental knowledge making. Her 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 and practice contributes to the growing discipline of the GeoHumanities, a field animated by collaborations between geographers and artists.

Sasha's past work has involved over a decade of creative collaboration with the international Aerocene Community and Studio Tomás Saraceno; participation in DIY and feminist amateur radio arts collectives including Shortwave Collective and Radio Amatrices; and co-development with Dr. Débora Swistun of Sensora, a community-led air quality sensing initiative in Argentina. She is co-founder with Soph Dyer of the feminist satellite imaging project open-weather.

She is on Instagram: @sasha_intheair

-       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:

• GG3161 Atmospheres: Nature, Culture, Politics: a third year module engaging with the geographies of air and atmosphere. This course focuses on topics including the geogarphies of breath; gases; clouds, verticality; communication; affect; weather and the elements. It is taught with a mixture of lecture-based and practice-based workshops, and is assessed through essay writing and a 'practice portfolio'. 
• GG2061 Cultural Geographies: a second year course co-taught with Professor Veronica Della Dora and Dr. Innes Keighren. Sasha's lectures focus in particular on 'material geographies' and include a range of contemporary, creative and aesthetic approaches to matter. 
• GG2003 New York Field Trip: each year Sasha leads a seminar group on visual aesthetics, urban imaginaries, and analog photography; these themes and practices are connected to the politics of activism in New York City. The seminar teaching culminates in a week-long field trip to NYC.
• GG5021 Advanced Methods for Global Futures. Situated within the MSc Global Futures programme, this course guides students through experimental, collaborative and hybrid methods in geographical research. It emphasises critical consideration of ethics and justice in research methods.

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.