Julijonas Urbonas is a designer, artist, writer, engineer and PhD student in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art.Since childhood, I've been working within the field of amusement park development. In 2004, I became a managing director of an amusement park in Klaipeda, Lithuania, and ran it for three years. Having worked in such a field – as an architect and engineer but also in ways that are artistic and philosophical – I became fascinated by what in my research I am calling the bodily-perceived aesthetics of ‘gravitational theatre’. This experience is unavailable elsewhere, and I became intrigued by this under-developed topic. Since then the topic has been at the core of my creative life, from design/artistic work to scholarly articles (including my MA thesis ‘Mediated Euphoria’). Most recently this interest has matured into the unique and paradigm-shifting topic of Gravitational Aesthetics, at the heart of my PhD research, which is the broader conceptual framework in which ‘gravitational theatre’ is performed.My work has been exhibited internationally and received many awards, including the Award of Distinction in Interactive Art, Prix Ars Electronica 2010, one the most prestigious awards in media arts. Beside my aforementioned research interests/activities, in my leisure time, I explore – through making, experimenting, and writing – experimental aesthetics of technologies and complex dialogues of art/design/technologies/philosophy/science and give lectures on these topics. I live and work in London and Vilnius.