2014 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
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13F03789
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
伊藤 毅 東京大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 教授 (20168355)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SCARONI Federico 東京大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 外国人特別研究員
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-26 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | Haikyo Exploration / Modern Ruins / Heritage Preservation / Industrial Heritage / Haikyo Social Impact / Gunkanjima / Ancient and Modern Ruin / Japan village shrinkage |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
This research is a comparative study between Western and Japanese points of view on the approach to the modern ruins as part of the built environment.
An essential analysis has brought to focus on the study case of Gunkajima Island, first and most important Haikyo example. Interviews were realized to Japanese scholars of History of Japanese Architecture like Prof. Keisuke Fujii, History of Engineering and structures, like Prof. Takafumi Noguchi and Compared history of cultures and literature like Prof. Mariko Muramatsu of The University of Tokyo.
The second semester (June 2014 - December 2014) has been characterized by the construction of a more solid theoretical frame I am experimenting with, as well as by a shift in my research hypothesis.
Thanks to Prof. Noguchi, I had the chance to interview two key-figures related to the national process of preservation of Gunkanjima: Kenshi Kataoka, Director of General Affairs Bureau and Naoki Kawahara of the Cultural Office of Nagasaki administration.
Another event of this second semester has been the organization of the International Workshop “Re-Envisioning the Wall” accomplished in collaboration with The University of Tokyo (laboratories of Prof. Takeshi Ito and Kengo Kuma), The PennState University and the host University of Rome, Sapienza.
First Trimester of 2015 (until March). Starting from the previously obtained theoretical analysis, field researches for collect all the most important data on the preservation condition of the selected study cases have continued.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
I have already presented the first results of my research in International symposium, obtaining a good response in terms of academic value. Moreover the workshop in Rome showed how the topic of the research can be useful in terms of urban renovation planning. During this last part of the fellowship period I will continue to define the study field also to allow a better utility for the Japanese academic environment.
The only issue that caused a little delay in my work is the work of editing on the first two publications, two books, inspired by the researches brought on until now.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
The first expected result is to create an inedited academic database for the Japanese modern ruins analysis able to bring the proper attention to a popular phenomenon that never got a serious investigation from the urban reappropriation point of view. A database that will be complete but easy to examine and flexible enough to be adapted to the ever-newer examples of modern ruins. I sure hope to open a debate, based on actual study cases, not only for Japan, but also on a worldwide scale.
A second result will hopefully be to set such a study in the same research field of restoration and renovation of modern architecture, at least in the Japanese debate.
I also expect to find a parallel in the Western study on modern ruins able to give Japanese ones the same possibility to become part of normal university research field.
Finally, the results will support a new comparative study method as one of the most scientific evaluation methodology. The comparison may also leave many possibilities to interpret this information using the different cultural filters.
This research will be a continuing great opportunity to link the research world in both Japan and Western countries, due to newer workshops and conferences in Izmir (Turkey) and Gwangju (Korea) that are intended to be organized between universities such as The University of Tokyo, Sapienza University of Rome and the Penn State University, under the patronage of JSPS and after the previous experience of 2014 Workshop.
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