"shrinking cities x fibercity @ akihabara" ///
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AKIBA SQUARE, Akihabara UDX, 2F
Mon-Thurs 11 am – 8 pm
Fri 11 am – 9 pm, Sat, Sun, + Hol. 11 am – 7 pm
Entry free
Because Japan’s population began declining last year and the rural-peripheral regions are bleeding into the greater agglomerations of Tokyo and Osaka, a debate about urban shrinkage has developed in Japan like that in Europe.
The exhibition "shrinking cities x fibercity @ akihabara" therefore unites two expositions – "Shrinking Cities", which was received with great interest in Europe and the USA, and "Fibercity", in which Hidetoshi Ohno presents a vision of the future of shrinking metropoles, using the example of Tokyo.
For the exhibition in Tokyo, the project Shrinking Cities has carried out a case study of the Japanese city Hakodate. The results are presented in the Tokyo and will soon be published in a digital online publication.
In the exhibition in Tokyo, models, films, animations, plans, diagrams, photographs, and texts will be shown. But the project is not limited to a presentation of exhibits; rather, a site for discussions is created at the same time. “Talk ins” will be carried out in the exhibition; there, architects and urban builders, students and representatives from administration, companies, and communities can bring their own ideas and present them to a broad audience.
To make the content of the project accessible to a Japanese-speaking audience, Shrinking Cities is publishing a 20-page exhibition newspaper in Japanese for the exhibition in Tokyo. In addition, a Japanese page was constructed for the project’s website.
Chief Curators: Hidetoshi Ohno and Philipp Oswalt, Assitent Curator: Füsun Türetken.
Events ///
International Symposium: Is there a future beyond shrinking?
February 11, 2007 (Sun), 1:30 – 6:30 pm
Philipp Oswalt, Curator of the exhibition "Shrinking Cities", and city planner Hidetoshi Ohno, with his vision of the future of the capital region Tokyo, discuss the phenomenon of “shrinkage” with city planner Kei Minohara and Prof. Riichi Miyake.
The University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus
New Faculty of Engineering Bldg. 2
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo
Participation fee: 1,000 Yen
Talk Ins /// On the weekends, nine rounds of talks on the future of shrinking cities will be held at the exhibition:
January 28 (Sun)
"Designing Time"
Jin HIDAKA & Satoru YAMASHIRO (The University of Tokyo)
February 2 (Fri)
"Ideas of the Future of the Cities"
Takeru KITAZAWA (The University of Tokyo)
February 3 (Sat)
"Long-Lasting Architecture"
Masataka BABA (Architect)
February 4 (Sun)
"Residence and Community"
Youko KINOSHITA (Nihon University)
February 9 (Fri)
"Information design and its communal roots"
Yasushi WATANABE (Collaborative Knowledge Laboratory)
February 10 (Sat)
"Forest and Water"
Toru MITANI (Chiba University)
February 16 (Fri)
"Residents and Urban Renewal"
Masami KOBAYASHI (Meiji University)
February 17 (Sat)
"Mobilizing regional Energies"
Motomu UNO (Chiba University
February 18 (Sun)
"Service for a pleasant city"
Hiroshi OHTA (The University of Tokyo)
All Talk Ins: Fri 5 – 8:30 pm, Sat, Sun 2 – 5:30 pm
AKIBA QUARE, Akihabara UDX, 2F
Single ticket 1,000 Yen, Pass (for any number of events*) 3,000 Yen (*registration nonetheless necessary)
Registration for all events: S x F @ A Organization office, E-Mail: info*at*sfa-exhibition.com, Fax: +81 (3) 5467-2646
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