This month, Gallery A4 in Tokyo is running a comprehensive exhibition featuring the MIT Japan 3.11 Initiative’s work on Post-Disaster, Resilient Reconstruction in Minamisanriku over the last two years.
The exhibition opens this week on February 7th, and runs through February 28th. We hope to see you there!
The video from Professor Shun Kanda’s presentation at the MIT Media Lab’s ‘Japan Under Reconstruction’ symposium on April 7th, 2012, is now available to view online. Kanda spoke at the Symposium, along with Joi Ito, Hirosih Ishii, and Kent Larson from the MIT Media Lab, along with Hirotaka Takeuchi from the Harvard Business School.
Professors Shun Kanda and James Wescoat talked about their intervention in the tsunami hardest hit town of Minami-Sanriku in Japan. An intervention, MIT Japan 3/11, was created right after the disastrous tsunami that hit Japan in March this year. The images of the damage formed the collage of our news images for many days and many posts on Facebook read, ‘God Save Japan’. The presentation titled, “Beauty of Place: An Overnight Tragedy” described how overwhelming the task was. MIT collaborated with two universities in Japan, Miyagi University and Keio University. Continue reading
Check out the MIT-Japan Program‘s Facebook page for recent news on MISTI happenings, as well as a reference to the Japan 3/11 Initiative.
Photo credit : Jegen Vincent de Paul
Jegen Vincent de Paul blogs on the “memory palace” created at the Iritani Junior High School in Minami Sanriku.