Since the Great East Japan Earthquake, the March issue of Architecture magazine has repeatedly featured disaster recovery and disaster prevention. This is due to the desire to pass on the memory of the earthquake. At the sites of natural disasters, wars, terrorist attacks and other tragedies, there have been ongoing attempts to preserve the lessons learned beyond the individual and the times. In this special feature, the methods and meanings of memory transmission will be discussed, taking as its starting point the things, koto and basho involved in the transmission of memory (disaster-stricken objects = things, activities such as story-telling = koto, and places where memory is based = basho).
My lecture at the Tomoyuki Gondo Laboratory (Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Engineering) in the University of Tokyo was summarized in the note of the Gondo Laboratory.