This paper attempts to understand the connection between people and local communities from the aspect of “faith” in the Jizo-bon in Kyoto, which has been attracting attention in recent years as a foundation for local community. At least in Kyoto, people of all religions and denominations participate in Jizo-bon, and the religious aspect of the event is not strongly considered by the participants. However, Jizo-bon is rooted in “faith” centering on the act of enshrining Jizo, and it is certain that this is why it has continued for so long. The origin of Jizo-bon is said to date back to the middle of the Edo period at the latest. Without an understanding of how people relate to each other, to the environment, and to the world in this historical lifestyle culture, evaluating Jizo-bon based on modern values alone may in fact jeopardize its continuation.
関東大震災から100年、多くの教訓の蓄積が建築や都市を変質させてきた。もし、未曾有の災害がいま襲いかかってきたら、あなたはどのように行動するだろう?オンタイムでものと人が行き交うこの社会で、あなたの準備は万全だろうか?この特集ではもう一度、空間、もの、人、そして、こころの備えを確認したい。あなたの備えはできているだろうか? Are You Ready?
Acceptance and transformation of the housing “ladder” in slum resettlement projects in Colombo, Sri Lanka(Japan Architectural Review)
This study focuses on the Sustainable Township Development Programme, a slum resettlement project that represents a recent housing policy shift in Sri Lanka. Through the actual housing improvement activities of the residents of Sahaspura, a resettlement housing complex, and the slum residents in the surrounding area, the response of the beneficiaries to the housing “ladder” was clarified. Policy makers and planners intended to merge slum dwellers into the formal housing market through the provision of “ladders,” a set of regular ownership and dwelling units in Sahaspura. However, residents have responded in a variety of ways, including house extensions and renovations and informal housing transactions according to their daily needs.
People around the world are facing life-threatening situations due to extreme weather conditions brought about by climate change. Now is the time to rethink our relationship with nature and how we should live on this limited planet. Vernacular architecture” is architecture that is created in response to local climate, location, people’s lifestyles, and culture. Humans have created architecture without disturbing the balance of the earth’s ecosystem on which they depend for their livelihood. The future of our planet and our future depends on adapting this ancient wisdom for a sustainable and more prosperous tomorrow for all.
This is a collection of interviews aimed at gaining a deeper understanding of the port town of Ushimado, which once developed as a economic and culutural cvore on the Seto Inland Sea, through the people involved in the community of Ushimado. It aims to be a medium for dialogue about what I am and what our community is through the community.
This is a collection of interviews aimed at gaining a deeper understanding of the port town of Ushimado, which once developed as a economic and culutural cvore on the Seto Inland Sea, through the people involved in the community of Ushimado. It aims to be a medium for dialogue about what I am and what our community is through the community.
Major catastrophes and the recovery from them transform the urban/regional environment. Is the everyday life that sprouts on the seemingly bleached surface a continuation of the past? Since 3.11, Fukushima has continued to be bleached. This issue considers ‘everyday life’ from the perspective of the attempts made there, people’s memories and migration.
In recent years, Ushimado has been attracting tourists and migrants with its scenic beauty and the streetscape of Shiamachi Karakoto-dori with its rows of former merchant houses and town houses, but the number of vacant houses and lots has been increasing due to the decline in population and depopulation. Dr Riichi Miyake, who conducted detailed research on the history, architecture and townscape of Ushimado in the 1980s, has been invited to look back on the situation at that time and ‘revisiting’ Ushimado. We hope that it will provide an opportunity to think together about the townscape of Ushimado, which should be preserved for the future and which we would like to see remain.
This is a collection of interviews aimed at gaining a deeper understanding of the port town of Ushimado, which once developed as a economic and culutural cvore on the Seto Inland Sea, through the people involved in the community of Ushimado. It aims to be a medium for dialogue about what I am and what our community is through the community.
「移動する『家族』 Families on the move」(撮影・監督:大橋香奈、2018 http://yutakana.org/fotm/ )は、国境をまたがるトランスナショナルな交流によって、異なる国で暮らす「家族」との関係を維持している、5人の物語を束ねたドキュメンタリー作品です。彼/彼女にとって、「家族」という関係性や、「Home」と感じられる場所は、どのようにつくられているのでしょうか。生活の形態や他人との関係性が多様化しつつある現代において、人々と住まいが互いに与える影響とはどのようなものでしょうか。本作の上映とその後のディスカッションを通して、「移動」と「住まい」の関係およびこれからの住まいの在り方を考える機会としたいと思います。
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).
The city, as an accumulation of artifacts, has been endowed with a variety of meanings and values derived from the activities of the people who pass through it. Especially in a city with such a long history as Kyoto, the majority of the artificial environment surrounding our lives was created in the past by someone other than ourselves. Therefore, the meaning and value of the artificial environment is layered and laminated. However, in today’s society, we feel that the distance between people and their environment is becoming more and more distant in exchange for the increased convenience and comfort that comes with modernisation. If this is the case, how can we approach the meaning and value of the environment again, and regain a relationship that allows us to “interact” (=cooperate) with the environment, including non-human (objects)?
Is share a hope to overcome the deadlock of capitalism? In places where sharing is practiced, even if you pay for shared use, the air, smell, sound, relationships, and responsibilities are inevitably shared. Sometimes it was annoying, but it enriched your life. Sensing crustal movements toward the future based on share from the perspective of housing