Shanti Sumartojo is a Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia). Her research investigates how people experience their spatial surroundings, including both material and immaterial aspects, using ethnographic and practice-led methodologies. With a particular focus on the built environment and urban public space, this includes ongoing work on memorials and commemorative sites. She is author of Trafalgar Square and the Narration of Britishness (2013), and co-editor of Nation, Memory, and Great War Commemoration (2014) and Commemorating Race and Empire in the Great War Centenary (2017).

Sarah Pink is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University (Melbourne Australia). Her research, based in design anthropology, focuses on design for wellbeing and emerging technologies, often through interdisciplinary collaborations with designers, engineers, artists and scholars from other disciplines. Her recent publications include the co-authored books Uncertainty and Possibility (2018) and Making Homes (2017) and the co-edited books Anthropologies and Futures (2017) and Theoretical Scholarship and Applied Practice (2017).

1 Atmospheres and the experiential world 2 Situating atmospheres 3 Researching atmospheres 4 The spacetimes of atmospheres 5 Atmospheres on the move 6 Atmospheres, design and intervention 7 A new agenda for thinking atmospherically