ABSTRACT
Indeterminant Occupation reviews how experience, space, and place characterize our exchanges with the built environment. While they might appear to be imminently solid, they are in fact fragile codifiers, which can modulate connectivity, identity, and behavior. Section one Determinacy of Experience enquires the spatial connections through the discursive conception of indeterminacy to unfold programmed spaces of the city and reveal an emergent vision of how the city in transgression can be formed. Section two Opportunities in Space looks at how spatial adaptation by migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and the homeless is not defined by location. For the homed, space is locational and defined as place. Whether the domestic home or the city, place is multiplied through private and public appropriations of space. Place can be measured in definite calculations and locations such as the home, the office, the arcade. Space, by contrast, is undefined and boundless; an expression of a volume, a region or the cosmos. Section three Discontent with Place tells how the making of settlement that formulized the collective place created the early formation of belonging bonding humans to their surroundings. Fast forward to the city, where place enabled the formation of civil and civic institutions, national identity, and centralization. The city became the supreme place of recognition of the nation state, equal to if not surpassing its geographical characteristics.
