The article proposes a territorial and relational reading of spatial issues. Critically focusing on some of the conventional spatial notions – in primis territory and place in terms of closed and bounded entities – the article argues that these notions have spread in a spatial knowledge that neglects the multiple forms and principles of socio-spatial organisation. However, if one tries to “keep together” the territorial approach and the relational approach to the spatiality – and the concepts of territory, place, scale, network – it is possible to display a new spatial imagination to open new interpretations and possibilities. This critical discussion of concepts and categories is a sort of call to do not be satisfied to the alleged certainties that the repeated and uncritical use of concepts seems to provide.
