Memory Town Workshop in Noto, Ogi, Tsukumi Bay

Event Details

Workshop where participants will recreate in a diorama the "hometown scenery" that was lost in the earthquake disaster

In the workshop, students will recall the city's former appearance and work with architecture students to build a giant diorama model in hopes of revitalizing the town that was severely damaged by the earthquake. Over the course of the seven-day workshop, the pure white model will gradually take on color. Please come and join us!

[Memory Town Workshop]
Co-organized by: Kanazawa University Noto Resilience and Revitalization Center, Kobe University Disaster Mitigation Design Center
Model making and workshop: Nishino and Fujii Laboratory, Kanazawa University (Faculty of Geosciences and Civil Engineering, Institute of Science and Engineering)
Toyoshima Laboratory (Institute of Transdisciplinary Sciences for Innovation, Faculty of Transdisciplinary Sciences for Innovation)
Tsukihashi-Asai Laboratory, Kobe University
Miyamoto Laboratory, Waseda University
Kumazawa Laboratory, Ishikawa National College of Technology

The "Memory Town Workshop" began as a model restoration project that was launched as a reconstruction support activity for the Great East Japan Earthquake that occurred in March 2011. Students studying architecture created a 1/500 scale diorama model of the area before the disaster, and together with local residents, they recreated the streetscape of their hometown that was lost in the earthquake, layering their memories and colors.

The setting for the diorama to be created in this workshop is Tsukumi Bay in Ogi, Noto Town. Tsukumi Bay is an inlet coastline with a complex topography of a ria coastline, and as its name suggests, it has many inlets. With few waves and highly transparent water, the various creatures that live there can be observed. In 1927, it was selected as one of the 100 most scenic spots in Japan. The Ogi district facing Tsukumi Bay is home to Noto Center for Fisheries Science and Technology, College of Science and Engineering of Kanazawa University, and the Coastal Experimental Facility Institute of Nature and Environmental Technology, and is an area with deep ties to Kanazawa University.

Contact

Noto Resilience and Revitalization Center Secretariat (General Affairs Department General Affairs Division) E-mai: notomirai@adm.kanazawa-u.ac.jp