IF you are asking the question you are not alone. Some people claim that there is no such thing while some contest the notion that there is any 'reality' attached to the idea claiming that it is some kind of deluded fantasy or myth.
However, if one were to start to talk about 'a sense of place' there will be glimmers of recognition but 'placedness' is something more than that albeit that it is an excellent vantage point to work from.
Invariably, places have networks of people and communities who identify with place and in Australia's and Tasmania's colonial histories 'here' was subliminally 'elsewhere' – in colonial Van Diemen's Land it was a place a long way away. Nevertheless, to palawa/pakana people their 'hereness' has never been in doubt.
There is this question that cultural geographers, anthropologists, architects, planners and a great many social scientist ponder upon in their research albeit a definitive understanding somehow always seems to be out of reach. The question being, is it 'culture' that defines 'place' or is 'place' that defines 'culture'.
It is assumed that omnipresent in the backgrounding at ECHO7250 there will be a pondering of placedness. It is somewhat fortunate that Australia's POSTcode system has given us a number to help define the publication's 'placedness' – and there is always a place's coordinates ... 41.4391° S, 147.1358° E if we are looking for numbers.
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