Sasha Engelmann is a Berlin-based geographer exploring creative experiments with the poetics and politics of air. Her work employs critical description and para-ethnographic methods to participate in the elaboration of geo-humanities, especially around topics of art‒science collaboration, transdisciplinarity, more-than-human, and cosmological aesthetics. In recent writing, she employs the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and Luce Irigaray to consider how collective sensing practices summon different forms of atmospheric life and politics.

Over the past two years, Sasha conducted fieldwork at Studio Tomás Saraceno and is currently completing her PhD thesis in Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford on elemental experiments in Saraceno’s work. Together with artist Jol Thomson, she lectures in the ‘Becoming Pilot’ curriculum directed by Tomás Saraceno at the Institut für Architekturbezogene Kunst (IAK), Technical University of Braunschweig. She holds degrees in Nature, Society and Environmental Policy from the University of Oxford, and Earth Systems and English and French Literatures from Stanford University.