Abstract
This paper explores how collective imaginaries become emplaced into material artefacts and practices. Whereas the literature on space has recognized its relationships with ‘place’, place-making practices and how they relate to imagination and affects have been overlooked, particularly in relation to collective place-making. This is relevant within collective places like cities, where imagined spaces often become emplaced through the lived experience, affects and imaginary of collectives across different time-space contexts. We rely upon the imagined spaces of ‘Romeo and Juliet’, and we explore how they become emplaced in the city of Verona, Italy. We show that place-making follows collective imagination and affects. Here ‘collective’ action encompasses imagined, past, present and future communities living across different time-space contexts through an emplacement that happens in between history and imagination. In so doing, our paper also contributes to discussions around historical methods to research the historical dimension of place-making, as an imagining experience.