Machiya Make World Monuments Fund Watch List

CONGRATULATIONS to the Kyomachiya Innovators group in Japan!!!  
Today, the World Monuments Fund announced the 2010 Watch List and the machiya, traditional Japanese townhouses, was selected along with 92 other at risk cultural heritage sites from around the world.   The selection will play a critical role in the Kyomachiya Innovators’ mission to inform and teach the world about the cultural and historical value of [...]

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A quick post-Labor Day recap……..

The last three weeks of August went by very quickly.  Anime scripwriter Dai Sato was in town along with Ryan Morris, his interpreter, for a couple of weeks to teach Anime Production/Scriptwriting to 25 high school students. Here are some summary videos of the classes he taught during those two weeks. Learn about 起承転結 (Ki-Sho-Ten-Ketsu) [...]

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Kyoto’s Machiya

In a follow up to the Japan Society’s November 2008 program, the Machiya Preservation Project, I had the opportunity to join our preservationist friends in Kyoto on April 15 who were hosting a visit by staff of the World Monuments Fund.
As part of their efforts to preserve as many Machiya as possible before too many [...]

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Kyoto 2007: Invigorating Communities, Designing for Inclusion

RETREAT & PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM
Invigorating Communities, Designing for Inclusion
November 4-10, 2007
Kyoto, Japan
PARTICIPANTS
Ruth J. Abram, President, Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Ayako Fujii, President, Environmental Co-op Union, Shiga; & President, Nanohana Project Network
Jeanne Giordano, Urban Design Consultant, Jeanne Giordano Ltd.
Taneo Kato, Secretary General, Asahi Beer Arts Foundation & Executive Director, Yokohama City Arts Promotion Foundation
Keito Kohara, Producer, artcomplex [...]

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