October 17th
Second day moving my micro office.
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Today I'm a bit late and thus my tour is a bit shorter then planned. My first station is Noritake san's small factory. Noritake is the leader of a neighborhood group and his house is one of the oldest in Mukojima (from around 1920). | |
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The photographer Katsuhito Nakazato is having an exhibition
there at the moment (also part of the Mukojima Expo).
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Nakazato carefully rearranged the old workshop space keeping it's unique atmosphere. The old yarn spinning machines became part of the photo exhibition. | |
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Nakazato's photographs are all taken around Mukojima. >> In the mukojima networks event in May this year he already had an exhibition, that time in a vacant "Nagaya" (old style Japanese row house). You can visit that exhibition if you >> click here |
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Noritake is surprised about the height of my micro office.
I tell him that the second floor is supposed to be my "emergency
sleeping room" in case that I miss the last train.
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He is also surprised about how easy it is to pull my office ... |
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As the street in front of Noritake's factory is really
Mukojima style (less then 2 meters wide) I have to move my office to get
some work done. I find a nice place in front of the Ichitera Kototoi Shukaijo,
one of the other few contemporary architectures beside Hasegawa's building
(see Oct. 16). It's a quiet place and I finally find the time to work
a bit ...
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The last station on my office trip today is again the
"Shogaigakushu Center" where a symposium on vacant lots and
houses is held. While I attend the symposium my office waits for me in
front of the entrance ...
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for a map of my tour today [click here]
