"via: Occupation" Book Launch Party

http://www.design.upenn.edu/new/arch/eventsdetail.php?eid=642 via: Occupation launches at dual events in Philadelphia and New York and is now available at Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Via-Occupation-Publications-1/dp/0980003601/ Thursday September 18, 7-10pm Meyerson Hall School of Design 210 S 34th Street Philadelphia Friday September 19, 6-8pm Hines Gallery Center For Architecture 534 Laguardia Place New York hosted by via, PennDesign, and the Center for Architecture. the events are free and open to the public. copies available at a discount (cash or check). *via* is a new book series that's volumes are edited, designed, and marketed by PennDesign graduate students and funded by the School of Design. *via* publishes in a process that is inter-disciplinary and collaborative, and its provocative themes highlight contemporary questions and directions within the design disciplines. *Occupation* is the first major new volume published by *via*. It studies the macro- and micro-scales that inform how we read, claim, and intervene in our evolving territories. It maps contemporary discourse and investigates the relationship between individual or collective identities, the tensions in definition and space-claiming, and the potentials for the space in between. 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. These practices are occupations of their disciplines, but ones fully aware of their fragile hold. Contributors include James Corner, Winka Dubbeldam, KieranTimberlake, Marcelyn Gow, David Leatherbarrow, Daniela Fabricius, Toyo Ito, Joshua Prince-Ramus, Teddy Cruz, and more. For more information, contact [email protected].