Collections of the Present in the 20th Century and Beyond: Tokyo’s Fieldwork and Guidebooks as Curatorial Practices
Cities worldwide are transforming at an unprecedented speed. The technological advances of the 20th century have instilled significant transformations for urban centers around the world. In this context, the preservation of local communities is becoming a growing challenge for authorities worldwide....
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| author | Anastasia Gkoliomyti Yoshiharu Tsukamoto |
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| description | Cities worldwide are transforming at an unprecedented speed. The technological advances of the 20th century have instilled significant transformations for urban centers around the world. In this context, the preservation of local communities is becoming a growing challenge for authorities worldwide. In times of such shifts for cities, the relationship between urban past, present, and future becomes a place of negotiation for academics and practitioners alike, with curatorial practices being at its center, creating a shift towards documentations of everyday ordinary life. Tokyo in particular, poses an exemplary case of urban transformations due to social, cultural, and economic restructuring that followed the opening of Japan’s borders in 1868. As a result, fieldwork that took place in the 20th century and beyond evolved to be a vigorous practice that took different forms, aiming to “collect the present”. These works can be retrospectively connected to discuss on notions of curation and interpretation of the city’s transformation, and the role of the observer. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-24c06b613a9d49b5923f1bec62c560422022-12-21T22:23:42ZengUniversity of BolognaEuropean Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes2612-04962020-12-013193210.6092/issn.2612-0496/102268694Collections of the Present in the 20th Century and Beyond: Tokyo’s Fieldwork and Guidebooks as Curatorial PracticesAnastasia Gkoliomyti0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0033-7298Yoshiharu Tsukamoto1Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of TechnologyTokyo Institute of TechnologyCities worldwide are transforming at an unprecedented speed. The technological advances of the 20th century have instilled significant transformations for urban centers around the world. In this context, the preservation of local communities is becoming a growing challenge for authorities worldwide. In times of such shifts for cities, the relationship between urban past, present, and future becomes a place of negotiation for academics and practitioners alike, with curatorial practices being at its center, creating a shift towards documentations of everyday ordinary life. Tokyo in particular, poses an exemplary case of urban transformations due to social, cultural, and economic restructuring that followed the opening of Japan’s borders in 1868. As a result, fieldwork that took place in the 20th century and beyond evolved to be a vigorous practice that took different forms, aiming to “collect the present”. These works can be retrospectively connected to discuss on notions of curation and interpretation of the city’s transformation, and the role of the observer.https://cpcl.unibo.it/article/view/10226curationtokyofieldworkurbanguidebook |
| spellingShingle | Anastasia Gkoliomyti Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Collections of the Present in the 20th Century and Beyond: Tokyo’s Fieldwork and Guidebooks as Curatorial Practices European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes curation tokyo fieldwork urban guidebook |
| title | Collections of the Present in the 20th Century and Beyond: Tokyo’s Fieldwork and Guidebooks as Curatorial Practices |
| title_full | Collections of the Present in the 20th Century and Beyond: Tokyo’s Fieldwork and Guidebooks as Curatorial Practices |
| title_fullStr | Collections of the Present in the 20th Century and Beyond: Tokyo’s Fieldwork and Guidebooks as Curatorial Practices |
| title_full_unstemmed | Collections of the Present in the 20th Century and Beyond: Tokyo’s Fieldwork and Guidebooks as Curatorial Practices |
| title_short | Collections of the Present in the 20th Century and Beyond: Tokyo’s Fieldwork and Guidebooks as Curatorial Practices |
| title_sort | collections of the present in the 20th century and beyond tokyo s fieldwork and guidebooks as curatorial practices |
| topic | curation tokyo fieldwork urban guidebook |
| url | https://cpcl.unibo.it/article/view/10226 |
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