2008
Outline
Objective
In summer of 2008, Y-GSA, together with architect Luis Falcon of Barcelona, held a workshop "Multi_Ramblas YOKOHAMA" that had as its subject the central urban area of Yokohama. "Multi_Ramblas" is one of the three-stage workshops that Professor Falcon's laboratory called Intellligent Coast at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya holds with a number of universities in Barcelona. The aim of this workshop, named after a famous street frequented by tourists in Barcelona, was to use the concept of tourism, with which Japan is not yet very familiar, as a tool of urban strategy and to develop a concept. After nine days of concentrated effort, a proposal for tourism in Yokohama in the future, "Epsilon City", was put together.
"Why hold a work on tourism in Yokohama?"
Tourism has been seen as something that transforms a city into a tourist site. However, that is only one aspect of tourism. Basically, the power of tourism is the capacity to draw people in and to activate a city. Tourism should be seen as a new tool for improving a city. As generations change, society is being transformed; de-industrialization will accelerate in the future. That transformation has been changing industrial areas found in harbor districts into commercial areas.
Yokohama is now changing. Instead of remaining a bedroom town for Tokyo, it embraced in 2007 a new urban vision called "Creative City Yokohama" and is aspiring to a new image of Yokohama focused on the potential of the waterfront. Perhaps tourism will serve as a tool for bringing in people of talent and improving the city.
This workshop is a proposal for a future for Yokohama based on three kinds of "intelligent talent"――cultural values of a region, tourism and talent.
Workshop objectives: Luis Falcon [summary]
Outline
Theme: Multi_Ramblas YOKOHAMA
Period: July 31, 2008 (Thurs)-August 8, 2008 (Fri)
Center of activity: Y-GSA Studio
(3rd and 4th floors, Matsushima Building, 5-45 Kitanaka-dori, Naka-ku, Yokohama)
Content:
Lecture on tourism by a lecturer
Lecture by Yokohama Tourism and Convention Bureau
Survey of Yokohama Harbor's waterfront district (the actual condition of the city; visitors and the landscape; local specialties and industries; rival cities)
Presentation of survey results and review by lecturers (intermediate review)
Design exercise (group work on drawings, sketches, models, esquisse)
Advisor-teacher:
Luis Falcon (professor, Intelligent Coast Laboratory, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya)
Final review critics:
Mikio Tai (architect, director, Architect Cafe)
Teppei Fujiwara (architect, section chief, Kengo Kuma & Associates)
Riken Yamamoto, Yoshihiko Iida (Y-GSA professors)
Participants:
Hironori Okada, Kanako Ikegaya, Ryosuke Ono, Yuta Kobayashi, Yohei Sugiura, Mami Takahashi, Miyako Tanabe, Takuma Tsuji, Hiroki Tsuburagi, Yumiko Tokuno, Yuri Niida, Takeshi Hashimoto, Shuhei Hirooka, Akari Yokokawa, Topa Rita. (17 persons)
Organizer: Y-GSA
Planners:
Mariko Terada (Y-GSA studio manager)
Luis Falcon
Collaborators:
Yokohama City
Yu Yokoyama (managing director, Yokohama Tourism and Convention Bureau)
Akiko Okabe (assistant professor, Graduate School of Engineering and Research, Chiba University)
Managers:
Mariko Terada
Mikiko Tabata (Y-GSA studio assistant)
Outline
Theme:
"Timescape/TimEscape"
Period: July 30 (Thurs) to August 7 (Fri), 2009
Center of activity: Y-GSA
Studio
Content: lecture by
Professor Shi-Wei Lo:
"Timescape"
related lectures by various speakers
research analysis of subject sites
intermediate review (presentations of research results and review by
lecturers)
design exercise (group preparation of drawings, sketches and models and
esquisse)
final review (presentations and review by lecturers)
Supervising teachers:
Professor Shi-Wei Lo (Tunghai University, Taiwan)
Assistant Professor Jui-Pi Su (Tunghai University, Taiwan)
Riken Yamamoto (professor, Y-GSA)
Koh
Kitayama (professor, Y-GSA)
Yoshihiko Iida (professor, Y-GSA)
Hirokazu Suemitsu (design assistant, Y-GSA)
Toshiharu Naka (design assistant, Y-GSA)
Masashi Hino (design assistant, Y-GSA)
Takenori Miura (design assistant, Y-GSA)
Final review critics: Mikio
Tai (architect; head, Architect Cafe)
Participants: Sugika Oka, Sanae Kitabayashi, Shin Koshimitsu, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Yosuke
Sagoshi, Kentaro Sato, Takeshi Suzuki, Makoto Tamada, Yoshimasa Toyama,
Kenichiro Nagata, Yoshiko Nakayama, Shuichiro Mitomo, Masanobu Mukai, Yuji
Yano, Shogo Yamauchi, Natsuko Wakimoto, Dalton Ruas
Organizer: Y-GSA
Planner: Mariko Terada
(Y-GSA studio manager)
Collaborator: Yokohama
Municipal Government
Managers: Mariko Terada, Mikiko Tabata (studio
assistant, Y-GSA)
