ABSTRACT
Place-making describes the way in which relationships, practices and meanings become bound up with a physical locale, generating a local context of action with a distinct identity to which future experience can be assimilated – In the chronotope of place, time and space become fused so that the past is at once localised and preserved, while space is infused with value and qualitatively differentiated – Place acts as a container of value which fixes and concentrates the activity of dwelling – The result is a distinctive figuration which can absorb new influences while maintaining its unique character – For a place to become home, we must appropriate it as our own, infusing it with value through inhabitation, cultivation and the accumulation of memory – Globalisation has changed our relationship to place but has not eradicated it, since place affords a set of social potentials unavailable in more globalised contexts of social action.
