ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the nature of place more generally, on the individual and authentic experience of place more specifically and finally ways to place-making that are more sustainable than those found in modernity's production of placeless places. It discusses the story of a real journey based on ethnographic research among travellers to the North Cape. When departing from Oslo, the North Cape was nothing more than a point in an external and abstract geometric space. The body has a natural sense of movement and rhythm that takes outset in walking. Being in place is also being in time, but technological development has structured everyday life to such a degree that it seems we have forgotten how to be in the world. Place reconciles space and time, as a living depth. An ethics of place in Mick Smith's view is a call to understand the human situation with respect to the natural world, as a practical sense and ecological habitus.
