But this was far from the only way this sprawling disaster relief and recovery effort made space for people as whole human beings. This quality was also, and every bit as importantly, expressed at the other end of the process, in interactions with the individuals, families and communities that had been hit hardest by the storm and were in most acute need of relief. The way Occupy Sandy approached this stood in the sharpest contrast with the way top-down relief agencies went about doing so.