BILLBORD AGORA

RESERCH IN IKEBUKURO

I researched the Prohibition billboard and Behavior around Marui The prohibitions on activities in the park have been increasing every year, and more and more things cannot be done. There are patrols, with red sticks, restricting entry and fencing off the area. However, people find a comfortable place to sit and talk outside the fence or the boundary between the park and the street, and they do so only on the street without in the park. However, there is no exchange of opinions between local governments involving the patrol and the citizens. Thire is no exchange of opinions between
they look in different direction facing to without accepting them, and various activities have the billboard. Citizens have obeyed the government’s regulations without accepting them,and various activities have been restricted in the park. I think this is the lack of dialogue between the government and citizens. In order people to behave freely in the been restricted in the park.I think this is the lack of dialogue between the government and citizens.

PSHYCO DRAMA THERAPY

In order for people to behave freely in the park and street. We need to talk about the restrictions on activ- ities that are restricted in the park and on the street. On the meeting Citizens who have been restricted may agree with this, while those who feel it is annoying may oppose it. Then, the citizens and the government will realize that they have not been talking to each other.

I would like to create a space where behavior and ac- tion, and action and dialogue, can come closer together.

DEMOCRATIZING THE BILLBOARD MAKING PROCESSE

1st In order to know each other’s situations well, they can have psychodrama therapy. At the drama they change their own positions. Someone acts as a char- acter who opposes free activities and the other agrees with it. Acting out the opposite person’s position may give you a chance to think about their thought.

2nd they discuss the new rules making. They talk about how they can spend time comfortably.

3rd actually they try to make billboards with talking and talking. This is also the first step to get involved in pol- itics. Talking about the problem with them, they can think of their city.

So we arranged each place in a flow that circled the plan until we created the rules and put them together on a billboard. Here is the first point of contact for people who have something to complain about or an opinion to express, and here is the project base area that serves as a base from which both sides would gather. Next to it is a psychodrama theater on a lower level, where we can deepen the discussion and find a way out. This theater is also expected to be used specifically for discussion, like a courtroom.

And here is a place to design billboards, where design- ers join in to explore ways to spread rules that are not limited to signs. This is where the billboards are actual- ly produced, and this project includes not only making billboards but their actual installation. The space in the middle is a gallery for past billboard achievements and reviews of ongoing projects.

The aim of this project is to maximize a healthy social life for all people by involving the person concerned, from making the rules to publicizing the project.
This is Billboard Agora.

Sink

While the shape and function of the sink has remained largely similar throughout its modernization, as a network it has greatly changed through time, perhaps most tangibly expressed in the reduction of the visibility of water in Japanese daily life. Even though water-supply systems were introduced within cities in the Edo Period, daily water management still entailed close human interactions: guarding the water source, lifting water from the well, common laundry activities, etc. Although the widespread introduction of underground water-piping systems and pumps after World War Two enabled the direct delivery of water to individual apartments, wastewater still remained open and thus visible. Further improvements in the closing decades of the twentieth century, in the form of pressure pumps, facilitated universal direct supply, even to multistory buildings. At the same time, grey water and black water are now systematically transported to treatment plants through a sewage system, hidden from sight, before being fed back into rivers or the sea.

Performing Arts / Park-Yard

The preparation process of the drama is usually hidden inside a closed small theater, which is only opened during performances. In the Covid-19 situation, a very small amount of performance makes the actor’s life difficult to sustain.
Taking this as an opportunity, we hope to release parts of the functions of the preparation process into the park and the open ground floor space as a workshop, with the intention of opening and displaying the process of drama preparation and sharing skills in cooperation with surrounding residents.

RE-CLOTHING CENTER

The fashion industry affects the environment at every stage, for example, the procurement of raw materials to the production, transportation, and disposal of fab- rics and garments. Garments are made from a mixture of materials, and are produced in a number of factories and companies overseas. As a result, it is difficult to grasp the actual status and full extent of environmental impact. While the number of garments supplied in Ja- pan is increasing, the price per garment is getting low- er every year, and the market size is decreasing. Mass production and mass consumption are expanding, and the life cycle of clothing is becoming shorter. The trend toward mass disposal is accelerating. This is one of the reasons why the fashion industry has such a large im- pact on the environment. In fact, the average annu- al clothing consumption per person today is about 18 pieces of clothing purchased, 12 pieces of clothing giv- en away, and 25 pieces of clothing not worn. This means that there are a lot of clothes that are produced and pur- chased, but not worn and thrown away.

Ikebukuro is a place where department stores such as Seibu and other shopping facilities such as Sunshine City are concentrated. A wide range of clothes are sold there, from luxury brands to fast fashion, and many people come to Ikebukuro to buy clothes. Many people visit Ikebukuro to buy clothes. In such places, fashions go out of style quickly, and you can see big red letters saying “Sale” at the entrance of stores everywhere. These signs entice consumers to buy. But even then, the unsold items are not recycled, but discarded.

Planned obsolescence is one of the ways to stimulate consumers to buy and consume. It is a method to make consumers buy new products by designing them in ad- vance so that their quality will intentionally deteriorate during use. In addition, short warranty periods and high repair costs also encourage consumers to buy. The system of mass production and the strategies of these companies continue to incentivize consumers to buy. It has become normal for consumers to live in a cycle of buying new things and then throwing them away. They have formed an easy way of thinking that if they find a slight defect, it is time to replace it.

Modern people today prefer to buy new products that are free of defects. But Naples refuses to do that. For ex- ample, when a car breaks down, it is repaired using a wooden stick found in the street. That repair is tempo- rary, so they will repeat repairs and breakdowns. In oth- er words, they believe that objects are made up of a cy- cle of breakdown and repair. It is through the repair of broken objects that we can understand the mechanisms of objects. Modern people have forgotten this fact.

All objects fall apart and break down as we use them. As we repeatedly repair and rebuild them, we gradual- ly become attached to them. Attachment is the act of using something as long as it does not lose its function due to damage or breakage. In this way, the damaged part of a piece of metalwork is reevaluated as a value, and it is transformed into an attachment. We believe that clothes can be treated in the same way. Observe the flaws in the clothes and give them the appropriate treatment. This may be a time-consuming process, but it may allow us to continue using the clothes for a long time with affection.

PHILOSOPHY OF DECOMPOSITION (2019)

Fujiwara Tatsushi

The world we live in is filled with abundance between new products and waste, production and products, life and death for example grbage that transforms into toys, robots that return to the earth, whales that are buried, invisible microorganisms and so on. This book exam- ines the possibilities of “disassembly,” which is now talked about even more negatively, in various fields such as pedagogy, robotics, scrap pickup, ecology, and the world of repair.