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Occupation is a major new volume that investigates the relationship between individual or collective identities, the tensions in definition and space-claiming, and the potentials for the space in between.Contributors include Toyo Ito, Teddy Cruz, Joshua-Prince Ramus, Field Operations, Winka Duddeldam, Anu Mathur and Dilip da Cunha, KieranTimberlake Associates, David Leatherbarrow, Lindsay Bremner, Daniela Fabricius, Srjdan Weiss, Marcelyn Gow, and KBAS, among others.The claiming of identity is typically seen as an aggressive act, one which requires exclusion in order to define. To occupy suggests this ownership, though fleetingly. It suggests placement, though one not easily defined by boundaries. In this collective volume, essays, research, projections, propositions, artworks, interviews, and reviews speculate on the occupant in situ, and offer strategies for mapping, thinking, building, and ways of doing that reflect contemporary social and physical terrains. more Lefebvrean notions, that identity is formed by the intersection of agents of different needs and agendas, are critical to understanding the urban domain and allude to the complications of space claiming and intervention. These relationships are broken into novellas--terra nullius, annex, colony, and body--that separate content into territorial categories though not reducible to scale or time. Content is political at one end, questioning the roles of designer and occupant, and sensitive on the other end, acknowledging our use of space as one of borrowing. Models of occupation, as seen in biology, in formal and informal settlements, in open-source networks, in virtual presence, in behavioral mappings, among others, form our investigation of how we read, claim, and intervene in our evolving territories. By rethinking use and habitation, we hope to reveal a practice in which the design of human occupation of space moves from a strategy of implicit violence to one of more sensitive interference. MOREEditors: Morgan Martinson, Tonya Markiewicz, and Helene Furján