ABSTRACT
A few years ago the French sociologist Bruno Latour self-criticised Actor-Network-Theory, his seminal contribution to social theory. “There are four things that do not work with Actor-Network-Theory,” he notes, only half-jokingly, “the word actor, the word, network, the word theory and the hyphen.” 1 In a similar spirit we became uncomfortable with the working title of this book, Alternative Architectural Practice. These three words became increasingly limiting in a project that we wanted to be expansive and empowering. This introduction will therefore trace the journey from Alternative Architectural Practice to Spatial Agency, starting with an explanation as to why the first three words “do not work”.
