Tokyo DIY Gardening

Japan Times Interview

Chris — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:34:42 +0000

Tokyo Green Space and Tokyo-DIY-Gardening boss Jared Braiterman interviewed for the Japan Times. Lovely stuff. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nc20120516br.html

Living Bouquet

Chris — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:27:06 +0000

I’m constantly amazed by the frugal inventiveness of Tokyo DIY gardeners. Here, plastic stakes and twist ties turn entrance way flowers into a dense, living bouquet.

Materials: Plastic Stakes, Twist Ties
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo

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