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viaBooks: Occupation, Dirt via is a resurrection of a title produced by PennDesign students from 1968-1990.

via is a collaborative of interdisciplinary students, professors, and professionals, founded by graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. Its first volume titled ‘Ecology in Design’ featured the work of emerging theorists and designers: Luis Barragan and Louis Kahn, for example. The book series title, via, literally, ‘by way of’, reinforces the book’s function as a verb

. The content animates the examination of a single topic, and the juxtaposition of the chosen works, regardless of the multitude of philosophies and methodologies present, brings forth new understandings of that topic. In 1968, via original aim was to catalog “ways of thinking"; in its relaunch, Occupation brings forth a working catalog of “ways of doing” where designers become active agents, catalyzing and shaping contemporary discourse through the means in which they work. via's content animates the examination of a single topic and the juxtaposition serves to trigger reinterpretation.

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