International Symposium on the Five-Year Commemoration of the Great East Japan Earthquake “The Possibilities for Art in Disasters”After the 2011 earthquake, a wide range of art, design and architecture projects appeared to assist in the recovery and reconstruction and many of these projects still continue today. This international symposium will explore the role that the arts and design can play when disasters happen.

Speakers: Kenji Kubota (University of Tsukuba), Takayo Iida (Independent Curator), Kenichi Kondo (Mori Art Museum), Jacob Lillemose (X AND BEYOND), Katsuto Miyahara (University of Tsukuba), Jason Waite (Independent Curator)

Date: Friday, March 4, 2016 6:00-9:00 pm
Venue: Iwasaki Koyata Memorial Hall, International House of Japan
Organizer: University of Tsukuba
Co-organizer: Mori Art Museum
Admission: Free (reservation NOT required, seating: 150)
Language: Japanese and English (with simultaneous interpretation)

Contact
Creative Reconstruction Project, University of Tsukuba
E-mail: cr@geijutsu.tsukuba.ac.jp
URL:http://geijutsu.tsukuba.ac.jp/~cr/