Atmo-poiesis will be an olfactory workshop inviting an embodied awareness of how atmospheres reveal our embeddedness in systems of ecological collapse and emergence. The workshop will underscore Stacy Alaimo’s conception of Transcorporeality: inviting participants into a felt sense of the porosity of our bodies, and how much we are trans-touched by ecological shifts, material macrocosms, and a consortium of beings and animacies. Atmo-poiesis will begin by sharing academic and conceptual context, and then move into a guided collective smelling and breathing practice that brings these into textured detail. The workshop will be accompanied by scents that speak to the subjective slippage that molecular encounters permit, creating the opportunity to inhale and commune with odorant molecules from polyvalent ecological sources in the form of composed fragrances..

Keywords: atmospherics, ecology, sympoiesis, transcorporeality, olfaction