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Bringing together an international range of contributors from the
fields of practice, theory and history, this book takes a fresh
look at occupation. It argues that occupation is a prospect that
begins with ruin--a residue from the past, an implied or even a
resounding presence of something previous that holds the potential
for transformation. This prospect invites us to repudiate,
re-imagine and re-define lived space, thereby asserting occupation
as an act of revolution. Authors drawn from the fields of
architecture, urbanism, interior architecture, dance dramaturgy,
art history, design and visual arts, cultural studies and media
studies provide a unique, holistic view of occupation, examining
topics such as: the authority of architecture; architecture as an
act of revolution; women in hypersexual space; occupation as a
serialized act of ruin; and the definition of space as repudiation.
They discuss how acts that re-invent territory and/or shift
boundaries--psychological, social and physical--affect identity and
demonstrate possession. This theme of occupation is significant and
topical at a time of radical flux, generated by the proliferation
of hypermedia, and also by the dramatically shifting environmental,
political and economic context of this era. The book concludes by
asserting that it is through occupation (private and public: real,
virtual, remembered, re-invented) that we appear or disappear as
the individual or collective self, because the spaces we construct
assert particular agendas which we may either contest or live in
accord with.
Bringing together an international range of contributors from the
fields of practice, theory and history, this book takes a fresh
look at occupation. It argues that occupation is a prospect that
begins with ruin--a residue from the past, an implied or even a
resounding presence of something previous that holds the potential
for transformation. This prospect invites us to repudiate,
re-imagine and re-define lived space, thereby asserting occupation
as an act of revolution. Authors drawn from the fields of
architecture, urbanism, interior architecture, dance dramaturgy,
art history, design and visual arts, cultural studies and media
studies provide a unique, holistic view of occupation, examining
topics such as: the authority of architecture; architecture as an
act of revolution; women in hypersexual space; occupation as a
serialized act of ruin; and the definition of space as repudiation.
They discuss how acts that re-invent territory and/or shift
boundaries--psychological, social and physical--affect identity and
demonstrate possession. This theme of occupation is significant and
topical at a time of radical flux, generated by the proliferation
of hypermedia, and also by the dramatically shifting environmental,
political and economic context of this era. The book concludes by
asserting that it is through occupation (private and public: real,
virtual, remembered, re-invented) that we appear or disappear as
the individual or collective self, because the spaces we construct
assert particular agendas which we may either contest or live in
accord with.
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