As part of this RGS-IBG Conference session on the theme of 'Geographical Imaginations', we invite papers that deal with concepts of materiality, value and waste, their interlinkages, and their place(s) within the nexus of current social, environmental and economic challenges. Papers might, amongst other things, address:
• the nature and implications of the socio-culturally shaped definitions of these concepts – how notions of ‘value’ might be understood to be changing, for example;
• the interrelations between concepts of transience and durability, both of material items and our relationships with them;
• the role of design in informing, enabling and constraining human-object relationships;
• relationships with particular materialities such as landscapes, souvenirs, clothing etc.;
• the meanings and impacts associated with commodity chains and their legacies, as well as other ways in which objects move, shifting the definitions applied to them as they change context;
• cultures of production and consumption, including the notion of ethical production/consumption, the meanings that individuals bring to these processes, how these meanings emerge and how they determine subsequent actions;
• particular conceptual and methodological approaches such as social practice theory, actor-network theory, or commodity chain studies that might illuminate these debates.

We invite contributions that open up the discussion of how rethinking and reimagining value, waste, materiality, and other associated ideas in the contexts of production and consumption geographies might in turn recast our relations with the material world. Papers may present conceptual ideas, recent empirical work or methodological approaches related to one or more of these themes.