Tokyo DIY Gardening

Tokyo Local Fruit Study

Chris — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:40:37 +0000

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Frugal Plot

Chris — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:32:43 +0000

This frugal plot has all my favourite Tokyo gardening elements – breeze block, wire, wood, rope….

Materials: Breeze Block, Wire, Wood, Rope
Location: Akishima, Tokyo

Floral Stairway

Chris — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:20:29 +0000

Magnificent floral entranceway of suburban residence + flats.

Location: Akishima, Tokyo

Human(e) Aspects of Tokyo

Chris — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:11:03 +0000

Human(e) Aspects of Tokyo: Creative climate, small places of anarchy, stigmergy.

Notes and a few projects for a guest lecture at Dr. Christian Dimmer‘s Public/Private Seminar, Waseda University (Nov. 16, 2011)
Download (PDF, 14MB): [LINK] (right click, ‘save as’ may be best)
View on Slideshare: [LINK]
View on Scribd: [LINK]

Seashell Border

Chris — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:14:15 +0000

Seashells used to construct porous border of casual suburban alley green.

(Roji are not just for the inner-city)

Materials: Seashells
Location: Akishima, Tokyo

Tokyo’s Non-Intentional Landscape

Chris — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:59:18 +0000

Tokyo place accretes through gardening; A conjunctive patchwork of “locales whose form, function, and meaning are self-contained within permeable and porous boundaries of physical contiguity” – An eclectic mix which serves as a check on the depersonalization of life and culture, invoking the variety and possibility that belong to the very structure of human existence. And, while not necessarily a community something that contributes to community-building – nurturing of a constituency or culture – and the preservation of the common environment through the confirmation of feelings, lifestyles and pleasures in the everyday humanly scaled and personally comprehensible environment…….. Read on This Big City

Suburban Rooftop Jungle

Chris — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:42:27 +0000

Magnificent suburban roof garden – pots, trees, shrubs sitting, climbing, burrowing and hanging.

Location: Tachikawa, Tokyo

Driveway Tiered Garden

Chris — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:29:58 +0000

Breeze blocks support simple tiered garden in deep suburban Tokyo.

Materials: Breeze Blocks
Location: Tachikawa, Tokyo

FIXING the Neighbourhood

Chris — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:01:54 +0000

A scrambled, semi-off-the-cuff presentation for the Institute for Information Design Japan workshop “Transforming Neighbourhoods – Tokyo/Berlin” organised by Jan Lindenberg.
View the presentation [ON SLIDESHARE] or [ON SCRIBD]

Small Places of Anarchy in the City

Chris — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:34:35 +0000

“The qualities of a city like Tokyo that is parts-oriented to begin with, although appearing chaotic and lacking any principle or order, may at last be appreciated in the coming age.” Yoshinobu Ashihara.

Tokyo, a city of parts where the individual defines the large scale shows the elimination of the hierarchical city, quietly dismissing accumulated forms of power in favour of a situation in which everyone is free to realize their possibilities. Tokyo makes it possible for slim segments of the population to generate their own environments in scattered oases of a vast metroscape. What emerges here is the idea of the city of unimposed order, consisting of communal self-determination on one hand and individual freedom on the other. Here authority is practical, rather than absolute or permanent, and based in communication, negotiation……continue reading on This Big City

(Thanks to @thisbigcity for giving us some space!)