The Role of Space in the Emergence and Endurance of Organizing

• In Event: Time, Space, and Organizing

Abstract

By examining ethnographic data from two creative spaces that faced the challenge of enduring in turbulent times, we propose that space, understood as a material assemblage, participates in organizing. It does so because space and practice reflexively account for each other. In other words, space may constrain or enable practice, as the literature abundantly illustrates, but practices also define and shape space. Rather than emphasizing either of these two options, they should be understood as integral to each other, and it is precisely their reflexive relation that contributes to organizing, as space participates in making practice recognizably similar through time.

Authors

• Boukje Cnossen, Leuphana University Lüneburg

• Nicolas Bencherki, TÉLUQ Montréal