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Dive-deep into Japanese Cultures: Exhibition on Architecture Students' Design & Responses on Public Bath and Disaster Preparedness
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21 September 2024
Japan Creative Centre
Join us at Japan Creative Centre (JCC) for an exhibition and presentation hosted by NUS Architecture Students. Please come and see what they’ve learned and experienced about Japanese Culture during their summer-break in 2024, while closely collaborating with several Japanese university students. One exhibit focuses on Public Bath Culture (銭湯文化) and explored how its significance in the society can be reimagined through redesigning bath houses in Tokyo. Another exhibit looks into Japan’s Disaster Preparedness Culture (防災文化) along Tohoku coastline. This excursion-based workshop led students to understand the reconstruction outcomes and challenges from the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, March 11th.
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21 September 2024 (Saturday) |
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Exhibition
10am – 6pm (Registration not required)
Presentation on Public Bath Culture (銭湯文化) and Disaster Preparedness Culture (防災文化)
Group A: 1pm – 2pm (Doors open 12:30pm)
Group B: 3:30pm – 4:30pm (Doors open 3pm)
(Registration required)
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Japan Creative Centre (JCC)
Embassy of Japan in Singapore
4 Nassim Road Singapore 258372
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FREE and open to public |
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For attending presentation sessions in person, please register in advance from the links below. During presentation sessions, students from both Singapore and Japan will share their project and experience followed by a short discussion.
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Public Bath Culture (銭湯文化):
Intensive architecture workshop in Tokyo, 2024 (IWIT 2024)
After the presentation at Noda campus, Tokyo University of Science.
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IWIT2024 focuses on public bathhouses, known as Sentō in Japan. Participants in the workshop formed groups with students from Tokyo University of Science and Shibaura Institute of Technology, and collaborate intensively for a week. Throughout the period from 20 to 30 June 2024, they conducted research on a specific site, engage in discussion, and exchange opinions informed by their diverse cultural and academic backgrounds. By the end of the workshop, students identified and defined local issues independently, and collectively developed proposals to address them. The final presentation, delivered in a bilingual format (English and Japanese), opened to the public and served as one of the key deliverables.
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Disaster Preparedness Culture (防災文化):
Learning from the Great East Japan Earthquake Reconstruction Process
At Rikuzen Takata City, Iwate Prefecture.
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This excursion- and discussion-based workshop from 22 to 29 July 2024 aimed to bring real-life learnings to all participants (8 from NUS, 4 from Tohoku University) to understand the Japanese culture of "living with disaster", by driving along the Tohoku coastline. Spanning across Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima prefectures, we have visited a number of March 11th reconstruction projects and memorials, which enabled us to understand how social, economic, political, and ecological forces influence the decisions of machi-zukuri and infrastructural planning.
Has Tohoku recovered successfully? From what criteria, and from who’s point of view?
The activities during the trip were interactive as possible to promote mutual learning, and there were many chances to listen to the voices of residents, local leaders, as well as participants with various backgrounds.
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| WATCH BOTH PRESENTATIONS ONLINE |
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If you are unable to attend in person, the presentation sessions will be available online too (no need for registration).
Please dial-in: https://nus-sg.zoom.us/j/85606357285
Webinar ID: 856 0635 7285
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| WHERE IS JAPAN CREATIVE CENTRE (JCC)? |
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Is this your first time to Japan Creative Centre? Follow the map below to Japan Creative Centre now.
Getting to Japan Creative Centre
4 Nassim Road Singapore 258372
Tel: +65-6737-0434
By Public Bus:
Bus services: 7, 36, 77, 105, 106, 111, 123, 132, 174, 174E, 502, 502A, 502B (Alight in front of Delfi Orchard)
For latest information on bus routes and fares, please refer to SBS Transit.
By the MRT:
You may also take the MRT to the nearest MRT station, Orchard (NS22).
Train fares, travel times and route maps are available on the SMRT website.
Driving to JCC:
Nearest parking is at Orchard Hotel, Delfi Orchard and Orchard Rendezvous Hotel.
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