Public Space Lab

27/05/2023

English below:
考えるに値すること今日、近所の人と親しく話をしましたか？隣の家の子供と笑顔で挨拶を交わしましたか？健康で幸せに過ごすために、社会的な筋肉を鍛えましょう。素敵な週末をお過ごしください！

Something worth thinking about. Have you had a friendly chat with your neighbour today? Did you exchange smiles and greetings with the kid next door? Exercise your social muscle to stay healthy and happy. Have a great weekend!

20/06/2016

PLEASE spread the word! You can now nominate candidates for the Design @ Communities Award 2017!

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Design@Communities Award 2017
やって・みて・わかって

この社会が抱えるさまざまな課題に向き合う実践者を対象に、東京藝術大学デザイン科、公益財団法人 日本デザイン振興会、IIDj 情報デザインアソシエイツは社会の活力を創成するデザインプログラムを実施します。

3つのユニットは「ワークショップ / アワード / シンポジウム」 で構成され、参加者それぞれの領域（生活・地域・テクノロジー・教育など）を越境する学び合いと実践の場をつくります。参加者のみなさまは、最初にゴールビジョンを描くことから始めるデザインのプロセス、「やって（行動）・みて（省察）・わかって（納得）」を循環するアプローチを手に入れることができます。

ワークショップユニット [2016年8月5/6/7日（ 金/土/日）]　応募型（有料）
アワードユニット [2016年9月 - 2017年5月]　応募型（有料）
シンポジウムユニット [2017年8月5日（土）]　一般公開（有料）


アワードの賞金は、200万円。応募計画の中からひとつを選抜し、プロジェクトの実践を支援します。


プレスリリースは以下のサイトよりダウンロード頂けます。
ご関係者の皆様に広くお伝え頂ければ幸いです。
D@C_PressRelease_20160610.p…（4ページ" rel="ugc" target="_blank">http://design-at-communities.jp/D@C_PressRelease_20160610.p…（4ページ 350KB）


プログラム第1ユニット「ワークショップ」を6月10日より募集致します。
D@C_Kick-Off-Workshop.pdf（200KB）" rel="ugc" target="_blank">http://design-at-communities.jp/D@C_Kick-Off-Workshop.pdf（200KB）

応募はこちらから
http://design-at-communities.jp/


順次、最新情報をお知らせします。ウェブサイトからご覧下さい。
http://design-at-communities.jp/


Design@Communities チーム

11/03/2016

Prof. Jerold Kayden on how to activate New York's Privately Owned Public Spaces

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o5VsjHrKIk

Privately Owned Public Spaces: Let's Invigorate the Inventory: Jerold Kayden and Billie Tsien New York City's 1961 Zoning Resolution introduced the concept o...

11/03/2016

Christian Dimmer, an urban studies scholar and assistant professor for urban design at the University of Tokyo, spoke highly of it to me, saying that it “reflects the best current urban planning Japan has to offer: a compact urban form, walkable public spaces and iconic architecture.”

Entrepreneurship, reconstruction and tourism still may not be enough to save rapidly depopulating Onagawa.

04/03/2016

[ EVENT ] It is a great honor to welcome Prof. Jerold Kayden, Harvard University, GSD Graduate School of Design for the following guest lecture:

‘Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience’

The events is free of charge, doesn’t require registration and is open to the public.

Date: March 19th (Sat.) 15:00 to 17:30
Venue: Lounge 222, 14th engineering building 2F, Hongo Campus, the University of Tokyo.
Map: https://goo.gl/vgHQKB

Urban Design Laboratory, The University of Tokyo and Public Space Lab are glad to welcome Jerold Kayden. He is the Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning & Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His research and teaching focus on the relationship between law and the built environment and public-private urban development. Among other books, he authored ‘Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience’ and founded ‘Advocates for Privately Owned Public Space' (http://apops.mas.org/), a non-profit organization based in New York City whose mission is to improve zoning-created plazas, arcades, and indoor spaces.

Prof. Kayden’s lecture will provide an overview of incentive zoning and the production of POPS in New York City as well as of the inventory that his team created together with the NYC City Planning Department and the Municipal Art Society of New York. Furthermore, he will share his experience with the recently completed, civil society-based monitoring system for these privately owned public spaces.

Program:

15:00- 16:00
Lecture: Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience

Jerold Kayden, Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning & Design, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

16:00-16:30
Privately Owned Public Space: The Tokyo Experience

Tomokazu Arita, Professor for Land Use Planning, Engineering
Faculty, Division of Policy & Planning Sciences, 筑波大学 （University of Tsukuba)

16:30-17:00
Building Common Ground: Outlining a Comparative POPS Research Agenda

Christian Dimmer, Assist-Prof. for Urban Design, Department of Urban Engineering, the University of Tokyo

17:00-17:30 Discussion and Q & A
Discussant: Naoto Nakajima, Assoc-Prof. for Urban Design, Department of Urban Engineering, the University of Tokyo



For details, please see --> https://www.facebook.com/events/1157311030965936/

04/03/2016

[ EVENT ] . Public Space Lecture Series, on 18-19th March 2016, by Public Space Lab and Urban Design Laboratory, The University of Tokyo

[DAY1] March 18th (Fri.) 16:00 to 17:30
'Approaches to Public Space' by the founders of WXY and Design Trust for Public Space

[DAY2] March 19th (Sat.) 15:00 to 17:30
‘Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience’

Venue: Lounge 222, 14th engineering building 2F, Hongo Campus, the University of Tokyo.
Map: https://goo.gl/vgHQKB

The events are free of charge, don’t require registration and are open to the public.

Detailed Program:

[DAY 1] March 18th (Fri.) 16:00 to 17:30

As an architect and urbanist, Ms. Claire Weisz has founded the
prominent non-profit organization, Design Trust for Public Space,
which bridges public and private sector in numerous public space
projects including the Highline and Times Square Plaza. She is also the founding principal of WXY architecture + urban design based in New York.
This lecture will focus on approaches to public space through
experiences in New York and discuss ways to tackle historical public spaces in Tokyo.

Program:

16:00- 17:00 Lecture
Ms. Claire Weisz, founding principal, WXY architecture + urban design, co-founder of Design Trust for Public Space
Mr. Mark Yoes, founding principal, WXY architecture + urban design

17:00-17:30 Discussions and Q & A
Ms. Claire Weisz
Mr. Mark Yoes
Naoto Nakajima, Assoc-Prof. for Urban Design, Department of Urban Engineering, the University of Tokyo
Christian Dimmer, Assist-Prof. for Urban Design, Department of Urban Engineering, the University of Tokyo

[DAY2] March 19th (Sat.) 15:00 to 17:30

The Urban Design Laboratory and Public Space Lab invite Jerold
Kayden. He is the Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning & Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His research and teaching focus on the relationship between law and the built environment and public-private urban development. Among other books, he authored ‘Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience’ and founded ‘Advocates for Privately Owned Public Space' (http://apops.mas.org/), a non-profit organization based in New York City whose mission is to improve zoning-created plazas, arcades, and indoor spaces.

Prof. Kayden’s lecture will provide an overview of incentive zoning
and the production of POPS in New York City as well as of the
inventory that his team created together with the NYC City Planning Department and the Municipal Art Society of New York. Furthermore, he will share his experience with the recently completed, civil society-based monitoring system for these privately owned public spaces.

Program:

15:00- 16:00
Lecture: Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience
Jerold Kayden, Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning & Design, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

16:00-16:30
Privately Owned Public Space: The Tokyo Experience
Tomokazu Arita, Professor for Land Use Planning, Engineering
Faculty, Division of Policy & Planning Sciences, University of Tsukuba

16:30-17:00
Building Common Ground: Outlining a Comparative POPS Research Agenda
Christian Dimmer, Assist-Prof. for Urban Design, Department of Urban Engineering, the University of Tokyo

17:00-17:30 Discussion and Q & A
Discussant: Naoto Nakajima, Assoc-Prof. for Urban Design, Department of Urban Engineering, the University of Tokyo

29/02/2016

"Rebuilding should not be seen as an end in itself. It is a continuous process through which civil society can develop more fully, communities can grow again closer, and the entire country can become more resilient and self-reliant."

In June 2011 Dr. Christian Dimmer of TPF² - 東北プラニングフォーラム　Tohoku Planning Forum pointed out the importance of holistic recovery process for the disaster-hit communities in that would focus on , , and community .

Part 1: http://www.japanecho.net/society/0086/
Summary of the failure of past reconstruction processes and what we can learn for the current reconstruction challenge

Part 2: http://www.japanecho.net/society/0091/
Ideas for rebuilding stronger, more democratic, and resilient communities

日本語バージョン --> http://www.japanecho.net/jp/topic/0086/

Urban design specialist Christian Dimmer looks at the longstanding problems afflicting Japan’s peripheral regions that have been highlighted following the March 11 disaster. Japan has made critical errors in rebuilding its cities from destruction in the past; to avoid these errors in rebuilding Tōho…

02/02/2016

[ EVENT ] DEMO:POLIS - Das Recht auf Öffentlichen Raum｜ ｜12.3. - 29.5.2016


http://www.adk.de/de/projekte/2015/demopolis/

31/12/2015

A great new public space has been completed for the centre of the devastated town of :

The commercial establishment

14/11/2015

'The medium is the message" — with that famous 1964 phrase, communication theorist Marshall McLuhan emphasized that societies are influenced just as

14/11/2015

Listen to the story of a buddhist monk, who is also a musician, and who says he wanted to create a place where people’s emotions could start to thaw. That’s how the charismatic monk began traveling around the area, setting up a rotating, pop-up café that he called “Café de Monk.”

http://wunc.org/post/cafe-de-monk-tsunami-survivors-can-get-coffee-cake-and-someone-listen-their-woes /0

31/10/2015

[ EVENT ] TokyoTransitions co-founder Dimmer is giving a talk in Vienna: 'Between Collaboration and Contestation: New Urban Common Worlds and Public Space in Post-Growth Tokyo'｜9th of November 2015｜12.15-13.30｜HS7｜main building｜Vienna UT (Karlsplatz 13, 1040)

Further details on -- > http://jasec.tuwien.ac.at/news/news_detail/article/8698/

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