Initially, a term used in the arts as the process of transforming the meaning of objects or symbols through novel uses or unconventional arrangements of unrelated things. The term bricolage was introduced, in the context of linguistics, by C. Lévi-Strauss (1962–2009), who used the metaphor of the bricoleur (handyman) to stand for the practice of creating things out of whatever materials come to hand. From there, it was a short step to using the term as ‘an entity that is built out of whatever materials happen to be available’ (A. Rogers, N. Castree, R. Kitchin 2013). This entity may be material, for example, a shack in a squatter settlement, or conceptual, as in postmodernism.