In Japan, architects are looking beyond the city in order to reinvent their practice. In this documentary series, Kayoko Ota visits some of the rural sites where this experimentation is taking place, interviewing practitioners to understand how this posturban turn might help articulate a new architecture for today.
The landscape architect Hajime Ishikawa has been conducting a long-term research project in the rural mountain community of Kamiyama about the improvisational construction practices of elderly farmers, the “Fab-Gs,” who make up for their distance from the urban market economy by developing ingenious solutions to everyday problems using the materials they already have at hand. In this video, Ishikawa speaks about what drove him to undertake this research, what surprising logic he uncovered behind the Fab-Gs’ bricolage practices, and how the knowledge carried by these elderly farmers might help counteract modern overconsumption.
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