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Sites of Spectacle and Encounter

Animated Spaces, Mediated Cities, Curated Islands

• Speakers: Ken Tadashi Oshima; Alex Bueno; Julian Worrall.
• When: Friday, February 3, 2012, 5:00-8:00pm.
• Where: Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus. Building 10, Room 301.
• Language: English.
• Access: Click for access details to Sophia University.
• Outline: To download workshop outline, with abstracts, click here.
• Poster: To download A3 poster, click here.

This scholarly workshop will investigate various exemplary processes and moments in the postindustrial (trans)formation and reimagining of constructed environments, with particular emphasis on how they are experienced by their dwellers and visitors. Questions engaging site-specific interventions, technological mediation, and multi-sensory activation will be addressed in conjunction with most recent theoretical reflections on architecture and urban space.

Speakers and Papers:

1. Dynamic Dialogues within Spectacular Spaces: Postwar Japan to the Palladium 
Ken Tadashi Oshima, Associate Professor, University of Washington
2. Media Consumes Tokyo: Unifying Real and Virtual Urban Space
Alex Bueno, PhD Candidate, Harvard University
3. The Archipelagic Imagination: Rethinking Site and Audience in the Inland Sea
Julian Worrall, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies, Waseda Insitute for Advanced Study, Waseda University
Respondent: Michio Hayashi, Professor of Art History, Sophia University

Organised by Caroline Hirasawa, Associate Professor of Art History, Sophia University.

Sponsored by The Image-Site-Audience Project; Funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science