Atmoaesthetics 2

Atmoaesthetics 2 traces the visual strategies of police and their atmospheric impact on public space, grounded in a critical perspective on policing. Taking a design-theoretical lens, the project examines how uniforms, formations, image devices, and choreographed gestures construct affective regimes: moods of threat, control, safety, intimidation. These codes are not merely expressive — they act. As the second iteration of an ongoing investigation, the project builds on the written work Atmoaesthetics 1, continuing and expanding its inquiry through new visual material and a more open, situated format. Presented as a printed publication, it brings together visual research, theoretical reflection, and photographic contributions by Sammy Bermúdez, Jannis Große, Mika Grunwaldt, Timo Knorr, and Mike Schröder (photo collection of Mike Schröder, housed at the Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung). The publication is conceived as a process and unfolds in a state of becoming: pages arrive unbound, images are recontextualized, and relationships between texts and photographs shift throughout the space. The process remains deliberately open — attentive to proximity, association, and the ways in which meaning emerges between things and through those who engage with it.