The 2013 Kaohsiung International Container Arts Festival, themed 'The Inhabitables', promotes the possibilities of shipping containers as inhabitable spaces for people, with the ultimate goal of achieving better liveability across a spectrum of contexts and functions.

Taking urban culture, especially that of port cities, as its starting point, the book presents a detailed overview of the creative and environmentally friendly concepts shown at the festival, featuring designs by Mecanoo, Sou Fujimoto, Arkhenspaces and others.

The 2013 Kaohsiung International Container Arts Festival, themed 'The Inhabitables', promotes the possibilities of shipping containers as inhabitable spaces for people, with the ultimate goal of achieving better liveability across a spectrum of contexts and functions.

Taking urban culture, especially that of port cities, as its starting point, the book presents a detailed overview of the creative and environmentally friendly concepts shown at the festival, featuring designs by Mecanoo, Sou Fujimoto, Arkhenspaces and others.

Along with essays by architecture experts Chih-Ming Lin, C.J. Anderson-Wu and Tsung-Che Hsieh, it includes an index of festival projects from 2001 to the present.