« Potato Hot Pot » Festival report

By CR in team, Okuma, Lessons, Vision Formulation assignments 0 Comment

The Aizu team, whose sphere of action is centered on the Aizu region, will organize the «Potato Hot Pot» festival in the residential area of Joho in Wakamatsu for November 18th. Children as well as adults can enjoy the student-run booths, radio event and other entertainment. On this day, Pop Cone will adorn the festival space using their well-known small truck and construction cones to make the setting more attractive.

Itako team: Decorating for the School Festival

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The goal of this operation was to create inviting designs and trimmings for the Itako city junior high school festival. The Hinode area where the school is located has been suffering from the ground liquefaction phenomenon and damage can still be seen on roads and pathways today.
The Itako team’s efforts aimed to boost an animated, bustling ambiance for the event and enthusiasm quickly spread throughout the entire area.
The group visited the school several times before the festival opened in order to devise decorating plans and needs.


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Crappe

By CR in team, Lessons, Kamado project, Vision Formulation assignments 0 Comment

The Kitajo team organized Crappe as a part of the Kitajo Fall Market held on November 3rd and 4th.
Kitajo prospered during the Edo era as a temple city for the worship of the Tsukuba Mountains; historic streets bordered by old storehouses can still be found. The tornado hit just at the moment when locals were working on projects to revitalize the area by converting the storehouses into concert halls or reunion spaces.
This time around, in an effort to spread the good word about Kitajo and increase its number of visitors, the team organized Crappe — an event during which Kitajo-style rice balls, a regional specialty, were served to attendees.
Despite tarpaulins draped over structures, broken signage and other evidence of devastation that remained, many people came to the Fall Market and seemed to enjoy the rice balls.


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Science Visualization exposure & announcement meeting

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The exposure and announcement meeting of the Science Visualization (a component of the Creative Reconstruction Project) will be held.
Among other activities, we will present illustrations that aim to demonstrate the mechanisms of an earthquake in an easy to understand way.

November 9, 2012 (Friday) 15:15 ~ 16:30
November 16, 2012 (Friday) 15:15 ~ 16:30

Location: Tsukuba University, 5C513


Kiki-Kome

By CR in Lessons, Kamado project, Vision Formulation assignments 0 Comment

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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