ABSTRACT
In this chapter I explore the conceptual dialogue between place and atmosphere. I propose that locating atmosphere at the centre of how we think about place reinforces and advances our understandings of place by way of experience and feeling. Atmospheres help us to account for how places feel, what those feelings mean and what might be possible as a result of their emergence and apprehension. By thinking in, about and through atmosphere, I take an approach to place that is contingent, excessive and slippery, that seeks less to define place and more to understand how it feels and what this means to people. It also opens a speculative route to thinking about what implications place might carry into the future, and how it might stick with us long after we have left it.
