Place Network
Conveners
About the network
The Place Network brings together people interested in the diverse relationships between people and places.
The Network provides an interdisciplinary space for researchers, students, practitioners, and professionals from a wide range of fields, including psychology, geography, urban planning, architecture, design, environmental studies, and related disciplines. We welcome members at all career stages, from undergraduate and graduate students to early-career researchers, established scholars, and practitioners.
The Network is interested in how people experience, understand, connect with, use, shape, and respond to places across a variety of settings, including homes, neighbourhoods, cities, public spaces, landscapes, and natural environments.
Through networking, knowledge exchange, events, and collaborative activities, the Place Network aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue, connections, and collaboration around people-place relationships.
Key topics
- Place attachment, place identity, sense of place, belonging, and place meanings
- Place experiences, memories, perceptions, and representations
- Residential satisfaction, home, neighbourhood, and community
- Place, health, well-being, and quality of life
- Community engagement, participation, stewardship, and collective action
- Natural environments, landscapes, and human-nature relationships
- Climate and environmental change, solastalgia, ecological grief, and place loss
- Place change, disruption, displacement, relocation, migration, and mobility
- Urban planning, architecture, design, and place-making
- Environmental behaviours and responses to environmental change
- Social, cultural, and environmental inequalities in experiences of place
- Theoretical, methodological, and applied approaches to people-place relationships
The Network aims to foster
- Collaborative research
- Cross-country and cross-cultural comparisons
- Joint publications
- Conferences and other scientific events
- Contributions to the theory and understanding of place and people-place relationships
