co+laboradović        New books produced by research project Measuring the non-Measurable. Mn'M is coordinated from co+labo 

Three new Mn'M titles

• New Tourism Practices in Alicante, (edited by Jorge Almázan),
• Future Urban Intensities, (ed. Satsohi Honda), 
• Subjectivities in Investigation of the Urban: the Scream, the Shadow and the Mirror  (Darko Radović) 

were published by flickStudio, and are soon going to be available directly from the publisher and at amazon.co.jp , along with five previous titles from the Mn'M series (see direct links below). 

Full list of Mn'M books:

2014 

Measuring the non-Measurable: Public-Private Interface, Mn’M edition Tokyo: flick Studio and IKI (Darko Radović; forthcoming)

In the Search of Urban Quality: 100 maps of Kuhonbutsygawa Street, Jiyugaoka, Mn’M edition Tokyo: flick Studio and IKI (Darko Radović with Daviis Boontharm)

2014

Future Urban Intensities, Mn’M edition Tokyo: flick Studio and IKI (ed. Satsohi Honda)

Subjectivities in Investigation of the Urban: the Sream, the Shawor and the Mirror, Mn’M edition Tokyo: flick Studio and IKI (Darko Radović)

Post-Souvenir City: Mediterranean Urban Intensity and New Tourism Practices in Alicante, Mn’M edition Tokyo: flick Studio and IKI (Almazan)

2013                            

Tokyo dérive: In Search of Urban Intensities, Mn’M edition Tokyo: flick Studio and IKI (ed. Darko Radović)

Tokyo, Bangkok, Singapore: Intensities, Reuse and Creative Milieu, Mn’M edition Tokyo: flick Studio and IKI (Davisi Boontharm)

Intensities in Ten Cities, Mn’M edition Tokyo: flick Studio and IKI (ed. Darko Radović)

2012

The Split Case: density, intensity, resilience, Mn’M edition Tokyo: flick Studio and IKI (ed. Darko Radović, Kengo Kuma, Davisi Boontharm, Ana Grgić)

2011

small Tokyo, Mn’M edition Tokyo: flick Studio and IKI (ed., with Davisi Boontharm)

PhD Research Seminar at co+laboradović 

On 2 April co+labo PhD research seminars have started with presentations and discussions of four current PhD research projects - Pega Sanoamuang (co+labo), Alice Covatta (co+labo and Università degli Studi, Udine), Ilze Paklone (University of Tokyo, Nishimura Lab) and Rafael Balboa (University of Tokyo, Kuma Lab).

co+laboradović        BUSY MARCH 2 - the beginning of collaboration with Gehl Architects 

the key meetings during the Measuring the non-Measurable - Mn'M tour were conducted at the Gehl Architects office in Copenhagen. Long discussions, conducted over the last several years in Tokyo and Copenhagen were crowned by an agreement to start an active collaboration and open the project Quality of open urban spaces in East and South East Asia. The work of  GehlLaboRadović will be coordinated from the Gehl Architects, Copenhagen and co+laboradović, Tokyo offices.

from discussions in Copenhagen
Gehl Archietcts team: Jan Gehl, Helle Søholt, David Sim, Vannesa Ahuactzin, Birgitte Bundesen Svarre Ewa Westermark

co+labo team: Darko Radović, Davisi Boontharm

co+laboradović        BUSY MARCH 1 - Barcelona, Florence, Belgrade, London, Vienna ... 

March was the period for concluding meetings with core-team members of the major research project Measuring the non-Measurable Mn'M, which was coordinated from co+labo radović in the period 2011-14, and setting the agendas for various follow-up projects and initiatives. co+labo's Darko Radović and Davisi Boontharm conducted a number of discussions and video-recordings, gave research seminars and lectures in the European Mn'M case-study cities of Barcelona, Belgrade, Copenhagen and Florence, and confirmed a number of collaborative activities with key co+labo partners. Here are the mementos from some of those events.

+Barcelona: Alex Ivancic (Aiguasol Enginyeria and Mn'M), Miguel Roldan (BAC and R+B), Judit Carrera (CCCB), Oriol Clos (City of Lille and Mn'M), Ālvaro Nicolás-Loscos and Pilar Conesa (anteverdi + Smart City Congress), César Reyes Nájera and Ethel Baraona Pohl (dpr-barcelona), Miguel Lacasta and Marc Chalamanch (archikubik and Universitat Internasional de Catalunya), Benedetta Tagliabue (EMBT) ...

+Florence: Raffaele Paloscia (Università degli Studi di Firenze, DIDA, Mn'M), Francesco Alberti and Jacopo Zettin (Università degli Studi di Firenze, DIDA), Giovanni Rufini and the team (MHC Società cooperative and DIDA), Marco Sala (Università degli Studi di Firenze, DIDA)

+Belgrade: Zoran Djukanović and Jelena Živković (Univerzitet u Beogradu, AF and PAPS), Vuk Djurović, Zoran Rubinjoni and the team (CEP)

+London: Vuk Radović (PLP Architects and co+labo), Simos Yannas (AA Architectural Association), John Worthington (The Academy of Urbanism)

+Vienna: Susan Kraupp (TU Graz and SK Statdtplanung, Vienna)

co+laboradović        URBAN   RESEARCH   PAVILION   JIYUGAOKA   2014   -   DAY 2 

21-23 February 2014 co+labo radović comes back to Kuhonbutsugawa Street in Jiyugaoka, to present the mock-up of the new urban research pavilion, which will be used for data collection and communication with the residents and visitors of the much-loved Green Promenade and the adjoining places. The mock-up pavilion has been erected on Friday, 21 February afternoon, and it will be there until Sunday, 23 February evening - exhibiting some of the results from the summer research pavilion 2013. Please join co+labo research team and the members of local community there, and let us know your impressions and suggestions for further research.

co+laboradović URBAN RESEARCH PAVILION JIYUGAOKA 2014 - DAY 1 

21-23 February 2014 co+labo radović comes back to Kuhonbutsugawa Street in Jiyugaoka, to present the mock-up of the new urban research pavilion, which will be used for data collection and communication with the residents and visitors of the much-loved Green Promenade and the adjoining places. The mock-up pavilion has been erected on Friday, 21 February afternoon, and it will be there until Sunday, 23 February evening - exhibiting some of the results from the summer research pavilion 2013. Please join co+labo research team and the members of local community there, and let us know your impressions and suggestions for further research.

Urban Research Pavilion:

urban cup-borad concept - co+labo (Darko Radović + Tamao Hashimoto, Sano Satoshi+Kim TaeBeom) design and construction of the mock-up: Kim Tae Beom (Geidai)+co+labo graduates (Akatsuka, Kato, Sato D)+co+labo students Suzuki M., Sato D., Suzuku A., Miyawaki+Geidai (Araki, Shoji, Yamakawa, Yamamoto)

co+laboradović URBAN RESEARCH PAVILION 2014 

21-23 February 2014 co+labo radović comes back to Kuhonbutsugawa Street in Jiyugaoka, to present the mock-up of the new research pavilion, which will be used for data collection and communication with the residents and visitors of the much-loved Green Promenade and the adjoining places. The mock-up pavilion will be next to the sculpture at central Kuhonbutsugawa Ryokudo from Friday, 21 February evening to Sunday, 23 February evening - exhibiting some of the results from the summer research pavilion 2013. Please join co+labo research team and the members of local community there, and let us know your impressions and suggestions for further research.

co+laboradović party 2014 

co+labo friends, associates, former and current students came to the party despite the snowstorm which has hit Tokyo on 8 February. This was also an occasion to say good bye to Milica Muminović, who is leaving to take her academic position at the University of Canberra, and Ken Akatsuka, Yoshiaki Kato and Daisuke Sato, who are joning the workforce in Tokyo.

January 2014 issue of Shinkenchiku magazine, reports from the opening of the new building at Memu Meadows, Hokkaido, designed by Harvard and built next to the co+labo radović Barnhouse 

co+labo will coordinate joint monitoring of environmental performance of the Barnhouse and  Harvard's Horizon House

co+labo radović wishes a happy new year to all friends + associates + colleages + everyone else who shares our passion for livable and lovable cities and architecture

co+labo radović hosted another lecture, this time by the prominent architect from Barcelona, Miguel Roldán

An excellent lecture showing the latest from the  Roldán+Berengué office was held 13 December at Keio Hiyoshi Campus, concluding an exceptionally rich season of co+labo Radović visiting lectures which, only in the last four weeks, included exciting presentations by Marco Imperadori (Politecnico di Milano 12 November), Kengo Kuma (17 November), Kazuyo Sejima (19 November) and Davisi Boontharm (29 November) and, eventually, that of Miguel Roldán.

three in a row - co+labo Barnhouse at Meme Meadows, Hokkaido has a new neighbour

On Saturday, 23 November 2013, LIXIL Foundation has formally opened the Horizon House, a Harvard GSD winning scheme at the 2013 International Student Competition (designed by a group of students, under the mentorship of Professor Mark Mulligan). At the official opening ceremony, chaired by the Editor of Shinkenchinku-sha, Mr Shikata, LIXIL and Shunkenchiku have announced the Third LIXIL Competition (to which, unfortunately, previous winners Harvard, co+labo Keio and Waseda, could not be invited). The theme of 2014 Competition is - Productive Garden. 
You can find full official video recording from Meme Meadows at ustream.  

co+labo students, Kira Horie, Saki Kozono, Moe Suzuki, Sotaro Miyatake, Wakataro Ueno, and Yoshihiro Sasamura took part in events which included an exchange of experiences about design and construction of the Barnhouse and Horizon House with their colleagues from GSD. co+labo's  Sasamura-san presented to the audience and media representatives a detailed post-occupancy report on the Barnhouse and progress report on an ongoing co+labo design-research project, Architecture which gets better over time, which started at Meme Meadows earlier this year.

               

           

from 3rd Mn'M Symposium, organised by co+labo at the Keio Yagami and Hiyoshi Campuses 15-17 November 2013

The participants of the third Mn’M 2O13 Symposium met the highest expectations of the organiser, completing three days of intensive work in a fantastic, collegial and highly intellectually stimulating atmosphere, ending with a number of concrete proposals how to complete the senryaku project and continue fruitful collaboration - with concentrated work on joint projects, publications and research grant proposals.

Thanks go to all Mn'M participants, the list of which included: Akiyoshi Inasaka, Aleksandar Ivančić, Alice Covatta, Apiradee Kasemsook, Ben Highmore, Christian Dimmer, Darko Radović, David Sim, Davisi Boontharm, Heide Imai, Hidetaka Hontani, Hiromoto Oka, Hendrik Tieben, Ilze Paklone, Joaquim Silvestre, Jorge Almazán, Kengo Kuma, Lorenzo Tripodi, Marco Imperadori, Masa Inakage, Masami Kobayashi, Milica Muminović, Nuttinee Karnchanaporn, Oriol Clos, Rafael Balboa, Ryoko Iwase, Satoshi Honda, Satoshi Sano, Seiichiro Katsura, Sidh Sintusingha, Soya Oikawa, Takahiro Yakoh, Takashi Maeno, Takumi Saikawa, Tetsuo Kondo, Tomoyuki Furutani, Tamao Hashimoto, Tetsuo Kondo, Toshiki Meijo, Zoran Djukanović, Wimonrart Issarathumnoon, Yasue Mitsukura + all co+labo radović members.

the biggest annual event hosted by co+labo, the Mn'M Symposium, will be held at the Keio Yagami and Hiyoshi Campuses 15-17 November 2013

Third Mn’M 2O13 Symposium will summarise the key points of the work conducted over the last three years and look at urban futures, with a noble aim which is embedded in the very nature of design – to imagine and to contribute to making of a better world. The participants of the Symposium will deliver short, efficient, pointed papers based on their research and/or design-research practice, and posters - with clear position, sharp focus at key Mn’M themes, and an emphasis on opening new questions and offering them to the Symposium. The accepted papers and posters present the emerging ways of thinking, making and living the urban in a rapidly changing world. Mn’M Symposium 2O13 will operate through plenary sessions and intensive follow-up group discussions, which will seek to abolish disciplinary group divisions and reach an interdisciplinary synthesis. Verbal presentations and posters will provide the starting points and a background of referential case studies, which will facilitate concrete discussions and innovative, cross-disciplinary thinking. The Symposium will end with, at least, the seeds of thinking that could help further advance Mn’M agendas or, at best, with workable coalitions of ideas – concrete proposals how to advance thinking, making and living better cities.
The participants include: Aleksandar Ivančić, Apiradee Kasemsook, Ben Highmore, Christian Dimmer, Darko Radović, David Sim, Davisi Boontharm, Heide Imai, Hidetaka Hontani, Hiromoto Oka, Hendrik Tieben, Inasaka Akiyoshi, Jorge Almazán, Lorenzo Tripodi, Marco Imperadori, Masa Inakage, Masaki Usami, Milica Muminovic, Nuttinee Karnchanaporn, Oriol Clos, Rafael Balboa, Ryoko Iwase, Satoshi Honda, Satoshi Sano, Seiichiro Katsura, Sidh Sintusingha, Takahiro Yakoh, Takashi Maeno, Takumi Saikawa, Tomoyuki Furutani, Tamao Hashimoto, Tetsuo Kondo, Toshiki Meijo, Zoran Djukanović, Yasue Mitsukura, Yasushi Ikeda, Yui Issarathumnoon

Ken Akatsuka, a co+labo M2 student, has won first prize at the Central Glass International Architectural Design Competition

The Central Glass Competition is an institution with long tradition. Since 1966, many of the CGS awardees became well-established and recognised architects, starting from with the very first winner, Kan Izue (later the 10^th president of the Japanese Architects Association). The juries regularly include the internationally most prestigious Japanese architects, such as Riken Yamamoto, Taro Ashihara, Hiroshi Naito, Kengo Kuma.

In response to the 48th CGS theme of Bringing Urban Environment into Architecture, Akatsuka-san and Inoue Gaku (from Almazán Laboratory) co-authored Urban Radio Caravan, a scheme which proposes construction of a temporary radio station, which would be moving from city to city in the northern part of Africa. The station would absorb urban complexities of its context and contribute to development of stronger communities in the cities which are facing numerous problems caused by rapid urbanisation.