Plug&Play Places: Lifeworlds of multilocal creative knowledge workers

This doctoral thesis investigates the role of place in the lives of multilocal and mobile creative knowledge workers, who live in different places and countries at the same moment. As such, this thesis connects mobility studies and research on creative industries. Using a set of qualitative interviews and mental map techniques, the lifeworlds of this specific group of people is reconstructed. As a central result the heuristic concept of 'plug&play places' is introduced. It helps to understand the process of standardization and configuration of places in individual geographies of the lifeworld and it might serve as an analytical tool also in other thematic contexts.