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Work | Participants | Faculty | Studio/Contact
Gallery Project 3 - Wartman and Pare
Gallery Project 3 is collection of Tokyo’s impressive infrastructure. “Pan and zoom in on some of the world’s most incredible infrastructural constructions!”
Studio Project 2 - Mansions
This was a joint project between UBC students and students from the University of Tokyo and Keio University.
From the brief: “The second project takes up the subject of housing. Design a multi-unit building – a mansion, on one of two sites in Negishi. The sites are particular and very constrained, remnants formed and then left behind by the process of the city’s development. Recycle these sites and amplify their use. ... The form and history of Tokyo challenge our preconceptions about permanence, even if – from a North American perspective – the social order sometimes appears fixed and monolithic. We observe the cycles of daily life transforming buildings and the city in profound ways, informing our understanding of the time of the city, and its durations. The design of a multiple-dwelling unit should expand these considerations to other temporal increments – for example, seasonal and contractual.”
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1200 millimeters in space
Group 1: Ben Alexander, Rebecca Bayer, Philippe Lew, Shukei Hamaya, Daisuke Okuda, Eri Sumitomo
ゆ View
Group 2: Graham Barron, Marsha Martin, Mike Wartman, Miki Kozaki, Ryo Ohsumi, Mina Ri
Transforming Domesticity
Group 3: Simon Montgomery, Helen Ng, Jason Pare, Ryo Ishida, Mami Miyake, Akira Tanaka
coming soon
Group 4: Michael Barton, Natalie Telewiak, Aiden Callison, Umin Gen, Asaka Minami, Midori Noguchi
Hang loose, Tokyo!
Group 5: Mark George, Howard Kim, David Zeibin, Ayane Maekawa, Yoko Manabe
Gallery Project 2 - Martin and Ng
From the film: “This is a collaboration between two painters, drawing from their current experiences in Japan.”
Watch it now: Instant Japan
Gallery Project 1 - Zeibin and Alexander
Tokyo Station by Touch is a first-person exploration of Tokyo Station with movement restricted to the yellow strips provided to help the blind navigate the city. The textured strips are ubiquitous in Tokyo – not only in stations but on major public streets and sidewalks.
Studio Project 1 - Approaching Tokyo
From the brief: “As we begin a semester of study in Tokyo, our attentions while moving through the city will be pulled in multiple directions. Dominating this stimulation, of course, will be the actual space of the city itself – in which the discrete experiences of the street, architecture, media, transport, sound and bodies, continuously meld and separate – producing almost symphonic states of distraction and unity. ... The introductory studio project attempts to take up the subject of media, scale and content in the space of the city. The content of the work and the nature of its representation should be understood as an inextricably linked conceptual project.”
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| Window Window (33MB) | Ben Alexander |
| Electric City (25MB) | Graham Barron |
| station2station (28MB) | Michael Barton |
| Loop (45MB) | Rebecca Bayer |
| Experiment Crosswalk (28MB) | Aiden Callison |
| Nice Shooot (1MB) Nice Shoot 2 – Pivot Point (7MB) | Mark George |
| Nice Shooot Images: 1 2 3 | |
| Vending Tokyo (20MB) | Howard Kim |
| Pixels (33MB) | Philippe Lew |
| Passage (24MB) | Marsha Martin |
| Kiosk Girl (32MB) | Simon Montgomery |
| The Moment (27MB) | Helen Ng |
| Street Retreat (41MB) | Jason Pare |
| still, framed (12MB) | Natalie Telewiak |
| [media] on the yamanote line (18MB) | Mike Wartman |
| Keep Left (48MB) | David Zeibin |
