Theory
Place-Thought
Explore in the Atlas →Watts's concept that place and thought are inseparable in Indigenous cosmologies, with land and non-human entities possessing agency — a grounding that phenomenology cannot accommodate. culturalProtocol: CARE-2019; dataSovereignty: GIDA
Country Ground Knowledge
Details
- Introduced
- 2013
Connections
- critiqued Phenomenology of Architecture
Referenced by
- Vanessa Watts proposed
Sources
- Watts, V. Indigenous place-thought and agency amongst humans and non-humans. 2013.
- Watts, V. Indigenous place-thought & agency amongst humans and non-humans (First Woman and Sky Woman go on a European world tour!). 2013.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Place-Thought." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/theory/place-thought/. Accessed July 17, 2026.