Kiki-Kome

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Crappe, an occasion during which rice balls will be served at the Hojo Fall Market in the district of Hojo (Tsukuba city), will take place this weekend.
In order to promote this event, we arranged an additional activity called “Kiki-Kome” at Tsukuba University; after obtaining rice from the supermarket, old rice from Hojo and freshly harvested rice from Hojo, we made a variety of rice balls and surveyed people on campus about which one had the best taste.

crappe homepage>>http://www.geijutsu.tsukuba.ac.jp/~cr/crappe

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A Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation, 8th Session

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For the 8th session of A Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation, we were honored to welcome Pr. Kenichi Kondo (curator at Mori Museum). For his lecture entitled “Artistic Activities in Conflict-Affected Regions”, he presented artworks shown at the Arab Express: The Latest Art from the Arab World exhibition, concentrating on their political and historical context. (Kataoka)


REPORT: Art Project Presentation at Ishigenishi Junior High School Festival

By CR in team, Jousou（-2012）, Lessons, Vision Formulation assignments 0 Comment

The art project related to the Ishigenishi Junior High School of Joso, which had to be torn down due to the disaster, was introduced during the school culture festival (Nishichu Festival).

October 27, 2012 (Saturday)

Location: Joso City Regional Exchange Center, Entrance Hall

The team carefully selected pieces from the art project exhibition which was held at the Tsukuba University Festival and borrowed the venue of the Nishichu Festival to feature them again.
The show consisted of works created by school students during the summer holiday workshops along with others by Tsukuba students and faculty, all of which utilized objects found in the demolished school building.


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Occassion to sponsor a festival

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October 13th
After returning from their research excursion in August, the CR Aizu/Kitakata team held several meetings and, as a result, decided to foster projects in the temporary housing units of Johoku in the city of Aizu-Wakamatsu. They visited the temporary dwellings of Johoku again with several concrete action plans and gave a presentation to Mr. Ishikawa, the president of the residents’ association, and his colleagues. In the end, they agreed to organize a festival with the students there. (Miyahara)


Announcement : A Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation, 7th session

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It has already been announced on the same page before, but the 7th session of A Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation, will be off-campus. Please attend one of the dates of the Culture & Social Innovation / Tokyo Conference on October 19th & 20th. A special reception desk will be set up for Tsukuba students.

Schedule (1):
October 19th, 2012 (Friday) 10:00am – 12:30pm
Location – Japan Foundation, JFIC hall “SAKURA” (4-4-1 Yotsuya, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo)
Lecture title – Section meeting program #1

Schedule (2):
October 20th, 2012 (Saturday) 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Location – Tosho Hall (3-2-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)
Lecture title – Plenary meeting program [debrief session]

* The two above lectures are the only ones required for the course, but there are many other interesting and informative events that students are encouraged to attend.
“Culture and Social Innovation, Tokyo Conference” website: http://bunkanochikara.tokyomoon.jp/


There is a “Registration” option available at the above website, but this process is unnecessary as participants of the Vision Formulation already benefit from a registration.

Report : « Art Project in collaboration with the Ishigenishi Junior High School »

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The Joso team has planned an exhibition to showcase the results of their art project in collaboration with the students and faculty of Ishigenishi Junior High School, whose school building was levelled following the disaster. Here is the report:
Dates: Saturday October 6th, 2012 to Monday October 8th (holiday)
Location: Tsukuba University festival “Soho Festival” / room 204 of the 6A building in the Art area

The team introduced the different steps of the project using panels on the black board, pictures and the display of actual objects found in the school building, and also worked to exhibit pieces the school students completed during the summer holiday workshop along with the work of the Tsukuba students and teachers. All the creations used materials and artifacts found in the demolished former school building.
Many people attended this exhibition. Among them were not only the regular visitors of the school festival, but also pupils and faculty from Ishigenishi Junior High School, guarantors, alumni, etc. The show appeared to be quite a success as we feel we managed to convey the sentiment of loss that the people of Ishigenishi experienced as well.
The exhibition is scheduled to be displayed at the Ishigenishi school festival too, on October 27th .
(Sasamoto)

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