ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author presents the theoretical debates around place relations as an interplay of localization and movement. He focuses on his own empirical findings from 25 biographical interviews with highly mobile and multilocal creative knowledge workers. Jan Wilhelm Duyvendak used the terms 'roots' and 'routes' to describe the home-making practices of mobile people. The author provides the idea of 'plug&play places.' He looks at the social practices of multilocal creative knowledge workers, using a combination of interviews and mental mapping techniques. Considering these practices of relating to places as constructions of 'plug&play places' allows for an understanding of the subjectivity of the standardization of places, which complements scientific findings about the objective standardization of place. Imagining place relations in multilocal lifeworlds as the subjective construction of plug&play attachments helps to grasp the interplay of mobility and immobility and to understand how new forms of flexible rootedness emerge in the frame of networked urban mobilities.
