Main entry:

Ishikawa, Hajime, 1964- interviewee.

Title & Author:

Islands and villages : the posturban phenomenon : Hajime Ishikawa in Kamiyamacho / conceived, interviewed and narrated by Kayoko Ota.

Publication:

[Montréal] : Canadian Centre for Architecture, a CCA c/o Tokyo project, [2018]

Description:

1 streaming video file (14 min., 15 sec.) : sound, colour

Notes:
To launch c/o Tokyo, the Canadian Centre for Architecture commissioned a multi-part documentary on the posturban phenomenon in Japan. Traveling to small villages and tiny islands far from Tokyo, Ota explores how, in place of the conventional system of commissioning, a new kind of exchange is emerging between architects and rural communities.
Produced by the Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Creative direction: Tom Vincent ; direction, camera and edited by Mile Nagaoka ; assistant: Oden ; music by Hidetoshi Koizumi.
Speakers: Hajime Ishikawa and Kayoko Ota.
In Japanese, introductory remarks in English, subtitles in English.

Summary:

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.

Subject:

Ishikawa, Hajime, 1964- Interviews.
Material culture Japan Kamiyama-chō.
Waste products as building materials Japan Kamiyama-chō.
Manners and customs.
Material culture.
Waste products as building materials.
Kamiyama-chō (Japan) Social life and customs.
Japan Kamiyama-chō

Form/genre:

Video recordings (physical artifacts)
Streaming video.
Interviews.

Added entries:

Ota, Kayoko interviewer, narrator.
Centre canadien d'architecture, issuing body.
Centre canadien d'architecture. Enregistrements des événements.
Centre canadien d'architecture. CCAchannel.

Hajime Ishikawa in Kamiyamacho
Islands and villages : Hajime Ishikawa in Kamiyama
Hajime Ishikawa in Kamiyama
French title on CCA website: Îles et villages

Holdings:

Location: Library internet resource 306710
Call No.: 306710
Status: Available