Theory
Place as Assemblage
Explore in the Atlas →Dovey's reframing of place as a heterogeneous, becoming socio-spatial assemblage drawing on Deleuze, DeLanda and Bourdieu.
Collectivity Settlement Power
Details
- Introduced
- 2010
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- Reason
- Subject
- More than human
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Referenced by
- Manuel DeLanda proposed
- Kim Dovey proposed
- Becoming Places articulates
- Assembling the Centre: Architecture for Indigenous Cultures articulates
- Decolonial critique of flat ontology opposes
Sources
- Routledge. n.d.. https://www.routledge.com/Becoming-Places-Urbanism--Architecture--Identity--Power/Dovey/p/book/9780415416375.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Place as Assemblage." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/theory/assemblage-place/. Accessed July 17, 2026.