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City as Weeds
We are one of five artist teams tasked with transforming empty shops on the Tenri shopping street in Nara, Japan. Here, the weeds are seen as a sign of decay and neglect. Our City as Weeds...
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A City Designed by Trees Exhibition
ENGLISH / 한국어 (클릭!) If we listened to the voice of the trees, how might the things we hear transform the landscape of a city over years, decades, centuries? This multi-sensory exhibition for the 2022...
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서울 문묘 은행나무
이 ‘나무 이야기’는 2022 대전비엔날레 참여작 ‘나무가 디자인하는 도시’ 에서 함께 전시됩니다. 이지나한국 서울 문묘 은행나무.“네가 좋아하는 은행나무 가지가 부러졌다는데?” ,“뉴스에 은행나무 가지 부러진 게 자막으로 뜨더라구요.”, 태풍이 온 것도 아닌데,천연기념물인 문묘 은행나무 가지가 부러졌다고 해서어떤 내용인지 찾아보니 나무 수리·보수를 하는...
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The Sense
This story is part of the exhibition A City Designed by Trees, produced by City as Nature for the 2022 Daejeon Biennale. Patrick M. Lydonin Osaka I cannot tell you how it is, but I can say for certain...
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A Tree Who Negotiates
This story is part of the exhibition A City Designed by Trees, produced by City as Nature for the 2022 Daejeon Biennale. Patrick M. Lydonin Osaka There were at least a hundred and thirty people crying...
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A Lack of Shade
This story is part of the exhibition A City Designed by Trees, produced by City as Nature for the 2022 Daejeon Biennale. Patrick M. Lydonin Osaka When the woman who was pushing a handcart full of...
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나무가 디자인하는 도시
우리가 나무의 목소리에 귀를 기울인다면, 그 이야기를 도시에 적용시킨다면, 도시의 풍경은 과연 어떻게 바뀌어나갈까? “대전 시민들이 ‘나무의 소리를 듣는 법’을 기억해낸 지 10년이 흐른 2032년, 끝없이 펼쳐지는 숲의 네트워크는 도시를 이루는 대동맥이자 연결망이다. 숲 사이로 연결되어 퍼져나가는 지하 균사체와 미립자들은 대대로 이어져 온 생태적 지혜와...
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Five Layers of a Nature-Based Korean City (Seoul Biennale of Architecture and...
Last year we submitted a proposal “Five Layers of a Nature-Based Korean City” for inclusion in the 4th Seoul Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism. We are pleased to announce that our work will be...
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Becoming Nature with Yoshikazu Kawaguchi (1939-2023)
This week we received news that Yoshikazu Kawaguchi, our sensei and the star of our 2015 documentary, Final Straw: Food, Earth, Happiness, has passed. As Kawaguchi moves on, into whatever comes after...
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Kokura and the Dance Between Old and New
The story of the city of Kokura may feel at first familiar. Like any small city with a history long enough, it is a story of new and old, where the latter seems to exist in general aloofness of the...
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