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Week 2 | 20/JAN - 26/JAN | FYP 2014 1st Semester ►     Books      ⎈    Weintraub, L. (2003). In the making: creative options for contemporary art.                                              New York: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers.

'The Voice of Winds', Kazunori Matsumora This is a sound device for gather up the nature voice. The Japanese primitive people recognized the wind as voice of heaven. The people worshiped the wind as sacrament and listened carefully the voice. The people thought that the wind has personality. “The Voice of Winds” is formed by a number of pipes in the shape of a tree branch. Dispersed white tree branches look like bones of animate beings. The material is earthenware. When the winds run through in the pipes, the voice of nature break through. This device is designed to communicate with nature and to get back the primitive conception of nature.

'House Vision', Kenya Hara, 2012 “Living in a city with a new sense” is the idea of HOUSE VISION. Since the Edo period (1603-), Japanese cities, especially Tokyo, have been cities with extremely high population density. Both in the past with rapid economic growth and the future, the life in metropolises has been/shall be full of plentiful resources and possibilities. On this account, we must seek for future resources. Firstly, it is the “house”. Since the Meiji period (1868-), Japanese society has moved towards the modernization, namely, the westernization, through which Japanese people have eventually understood the fact that money doesn't bring the true happiness. At the same time, Japanese traditions and their original values have been highly appraised. What kind of seeds should be sown in the 21st-Century in Japan and what kind of fruit can be harvested? In addition, we can also find out that the Japanese manufacturing industry is now changing fast, which has changed to the comprehensive home appliances and large-scale hardware and software integrated with the communication and portable systems from original types of televisions and refrigerators and so on. They will change the “residential environment” inevitably. We need to review the value of our community, lands and buildings. And, we hope to produce the creativity of the new cities with “house” and introduce them to the people all over the world.

'Lace', Mademoiselle Maurice, 2012