“How long do you have to have been here to be local?” This question, all the more challenging as it concerns a rock, was raised by Doreen Massey, as she explained the idea of place, and more precisely, the notion of the event of place in For Space, one of her seminal books (Massey 2005, 149). The rock in question was a massive boulder found in the sea at Hamburg in 1999, which had been pushed south by the ice thousands of years before and left there once the ice had melted. Did the rock truly belong where it had been found? In any case it acted as a complex and powerful symbol and its presence raised key questions of place and belonging. A political attempt ensued to promote place as “permeable” and to try and give new definitions of place as “a constellation of trajectories, both “natural” and “cultural”, where if even the rocks are on the move, the question must be posed as to what can be claimed as belonging; where at the least, the question of belonging needs to be framed in a new way” (Massey 2005, 149).