Anette Stenslund is a cultural sociologist specializing in space and atmosphere. She is currently (Spring 2020) working on a book about the ethnography of urban design which considers the architectural production of atmosphere in the city. In earlier projects Stenslund has examined the experience of art and atmosphere in hospitals; smell and atmosphere in medical culture – including the museum, and she has curated an exhibition about metabolic scent – Metascent. She has an ongoing interest in research-based exhibition making. She has also published a book on lust and the aesthetics of seduction.

Stenslund works as a post.doc. at Roskilde University, Denmark, affiliated the project “Living with Nordic Lighting” funded by the Velux Foundation. She holds her PhD from Medical Museion, Copenhagen University and a MSc and BA from Department of Sociology, Copenhagen University. She was a visiting Ph.D. student at the Centre for Sensory Studies in 2012.