LIFE ON BOARD TOKYO 09-10
Making a New“Experience on the Water”in the City
For a creative city, Waterfront became essential today. Waterfront is a space which gathers people, provides relaxation, and becomes the place where people illustrate their own creativity. Urban waterfront also plays a significant role when disaster occurs.
The fact Tokyo has various waterfronts shaped by labyrinthine rivers and canals is surprisingly not known well. “LIFE ON BOARD TOKYO 09-10”aims to expose the state and the potential of Tokyo’s waterfront to broader citizens, and to think about the future of the sites with the program participants. The program also attempts to revitalize urban rivers and the culture of water scenes through various art projects.
Program
Cruise■Tokyo Lowland Cruise (research program)
Cruising the rivers at the sea level in Fukagawa, Koto Ward and the coastal area that has been drastically changed in recent years by power boat and rowing boat (E-BOAT）, the program aims to research flood-control facilities at lowland and sides of ports you cannot usually see, by referring to old maps and to the history of landfill.
Day: 2009/11/28 (finished)
■Water Labyrinth of Edo – Furukawa, Azabu Juban, Hama Rikyu Micro Canal Cruise (general program)
By learning the transition of the waterfront after Edo period, comparing to the time of Meiji and Taisho, the program provides a platform to think about the suitability and potential of water use in future.
Day: 2010/3/13 (finished)
■Survival Picnic“BOSAI”(general program)
What if an earthquake hits the city…? The program explores the feasibility of floating market which normally provides fresh food shipped via boat from the farmers and fishermen in suburban area and is diverted into a center for emergency food supply in case of disaster.
Day: 2010/3/22 (finished)
Talk Event
■Open Waterfront by Art (general program)
Play with the odd things locating around the waterfront via the power of art! By discussing the ways to enjoy Tokyo waterfront with artists, the program tries to“open”Tokyo’s water scenes.
Day: 2010/2/7 (finished)
Venue: TY Harbor WATERLINE Floating Lounge
●About BOAT PEOPLE Association
BOAT PEOPLE Association consists of the members who work in the field of art, architecture, urban planning, and community development etc. Members from different background gather on project basis, providing various expertise, and pursue highly social researches. The association’s dominant interest is to create“experience on the water”in urban life, designing interfaces for people to come across the water and promoting to share the use of it. Sometime it takes a form of art and other times workshop or architecture. Participated in Yokohama Triennale 2005, Governmental urban re-development project“Disaster-prevention x Boat x Art”in 2007, BankART“Earthquake EXPO”in 2007.
Board member: IDE Genichi, SAKAKURA Kyosuke, YAMAZAKI Hiroshi, FUJITA Yuzoh, IWAMOTO Tadashi, SUMIYA Hiroaki, YAMAGUCHI Yuji
BOAT PEOPLE Association consists of the members who work in the field of art, architecture, urban planning, and community development etc. Members from different background gather on project basis, providing various expertise, and pursue highly social researches. The association’s dominant interest is to create“experience on the water”in urban life, designing interfaces for people to come across the water and promoting to share the use of it. Sometime it takes a form of art and other times workshop or architecture. Participated in Yokohama Triennale 2005, Governmental urban re-development project“Disaster-prevention x Boat x Art”in 2007, BankART“Earthquake EXPO”in 2007.
Board member: IDE Genichi, SAKAKURA Kyosuke, YAMAZAKI Hiroshi, FUJITA Yuzoh, IWAMOTO Tadashi, SUMIYA Hiroaki, YAMAGUCHI Yuji
