...Hanna Leipämaa-Leskinen; Henna Syrjälä; Hannele Kauppinen-Räisänen; Minna-Maarit Jaskari Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore Finnish public saunas as third places. Taking the theoretical lens of assemblage thinking, the study reveals how the socio-material capacities of public sauna...

... , 1987) used many metaphors to describe the open-ended systems of becoming. Following DeLanda (2006 , 2016), assemblage has arguably become the most popular appellation, describing how “a heterogeneous set of elements mutually resonate to become something entirely unpredictable”. (Bryant...