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What does it mean to belong to a place, and/or a particular group of people? How does one find—or make—belonging? What are the affordances of belonging, and how can they be claimed?

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This urge in my work is very personal: though, as a kid, I always had friends, I always felt like an outsider. This is not uncommon. The urge to find my people persists in me, perhaps, as it does, in everyone. And it manifests as a broader reflex to help others find their people, and/or a place of belonging, be it metaphor or land.

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Ideas from Publics and Counterpublics, The Practice of Everyday Life, From the Margin to Center, and Communities of Practice, amongst others, inform this work.