Reorienting Place Research: Upcoming Perspectives and Positions in ‘Practicing Place’

This short concluding piece considers ‘sense of placing’ as part of a research agenda in Practicing Place, from which the collection originated. Presented as a bricolage, itself a practice of positioningPositioning/Positionality across disciplines and theoretical slants, the following excerpts touch upon the multiple scales, subjects, areas, and approaches of a Practicing Place lens which goes beyond the constitutive dyads of public/private, political/personal, institutional/informal, existential/every day. Gathering perspectives from sociology, geography, art history, and cultural studies, we consider future directions for the study of terrains of conflict, spatial planning, new epistemologies, more-than-human approaches, and the workplace. While serving as a closing text, we also intend this assembly of research impulses to extend an invitation to reflect upon the practicing of place and placing of practice.