Three artists deconstruct the postcolonial basketball court at Silverlens

What is it that transforms space into place— into something occupied, a charted land? What turns nowhere into somewhere, into a home dwelled in, into a landmark worth remembering? If a place gathers, what or who is it that gathers to culminate it? And is a place simply what people make of it? If communities, as Benedict Anderson had eminently written, are imagined, then could place-making be the work of imagination as well? Arjun Appadurai writes of imagination as a key aspect of social life that works to shape spatial realities and sensibilities, the potency of which even impels and compels collective movements, dissent, and transnational migration, as well as other ways of seeing, dwelling, and place-making. He imagines the world as a world of flows— referring to the movement of things, ideas, and people across the globe— and terms these flows as ‘scapes,’ interestingly evoking the notion of place. Following this lens, we might conceive of place-making as the