ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the normalized relation between occupation and the conventional representation of space. It discusses the conventional and continuing rationalization of the interior by foregrounding the oppositional relation between authentic occupation and the interior's image. Paradoxically, occupation the principal objective of spatial design, is perceived as a contaminate to aesthetic agendas: occupation ruins space. In a revolution of ownership, the client's domination is conceded, as unrefined and disordered occupations infuse designed space. To counter this entropy, the profession subjugates occupation, which is evidenced through the interior's ideal and sanitized image. The heterotopia, like the idealized image, can be understood as product of the techniques and procedures of exclusion, and as a material condition of knowledge. Foucault identifies an absence, such as occupation, as that which reflects a rationale of social arrangements, and Gillian Rose advises that these Absences can be as productive as explicit naming; invisibility can have just as powerful effects as visibility.
