co+labo @ the second architectural and urban design international Symposium workshop The Anatomy of an Island, at Vis, Croatia 

Public presentation of student proposals 5 October 2013 was the closing event of this year's Anatomy of an island symposium and workshop, held at the island Vis. Students from Japan (Keio University and University of Tokyo), Slovenia (University of Ljubljana), Italy (Palermo University) and Croatia (University of Zagreb), who under the supervision of professors Tadej Glažar (Ljubljana), Neno Kezić (Split), Davisi Boontharm (Melbourne), Darko Radović (co+labo, Tokyo) and Ko Nakamura (Kuma Laboratory, Tokyo), presented their design-research proposals for some of the key locations in the island towns of Komiža and Vis.

Excellent organisation by local organisation Lavurat za poja was managed by Boško Budisavljević and Eta Martinis. The solo-exhibition of drawings of Vis by Davisi Boontharm was very well received, with a promise of the new one, at Anatomija otoka 2014.

co+labo teamSasamura Yoshihiro, Kozono Saki, Amano Ryoto, Miyatake Sotaro, Ueno Wakataro and Darko Radović

Milica Muminović has completed her PhD at co+labo in record time. She received the highest academic degree from Professor Tojiro Aoyama, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology

Milica’s Thesis, Advanced Assemblage Analysis of Built Environment and Persistence of the Identity of Place in Yanesen contributes to the methods of urban analysis based on assemblage theory by increasing their capacity to address changes in built environment and relating them to the persistences of identity of place. The methodology proposed and tested in this work approaches place in its complexity and analyses the dynamics of change of a concrete place as a complex whole.
Milica stays at co+labo, in the capacity of Research Assistant at our major research project – Measuring the non-Measurable.

graphical design workshop with Boris Kuk - towards co+labo language

in September 2O13, co+labo hosts a series of workshop sessions with Mr Boris Kuk, a renowned graphical designer from Zagreb, Croatia. The workshops are part of IKI research project Measuring the non-Mesurable, with an aim to help development of an innovative visual language capable to capture the subtlest qualities of the urban. The work focuses on data collected during the co+labo  Asia dèrive sessions in Hong Kong, Bangkok and Singapore and recent urban research pavilion in Kuhonbutsugawa Street, Jiyugaoka.

co+labo+J Jiyugaoka urban research pavilion final DAY 4 - 23 July 2013  

co+labo data collection, conducted in our +J urban research pavilion in Kuhonbutsugawa Street, Jiyugaoka was completed on Tuesday afternoon. The pavilion was dismantled just before a downpour. A very loud thunder was a proper background for the finale of a very successful exercise. 

Over the four days, co+labo team of research assistants and students have greeted a huge number of visitors and assisted them in providing the Mn'M project with invaluable data for further investigations.The project was successful due to a truly tremendous response by a number of to us known and unknown individuals and organisations, some of which appear at the snapshots +J pavilion on this blog. We were proud to see how our modest tent became a meeting hub, accepted as an organic part of an already mature urban culture of Kuhonbutsugawa promenade. 

Very soon, co+labo will start preparing the autumn data collection session.  We will use the experiences from the last four days to set up an even better +J pavilion in October

co+labo wholeheartedly thanks the residents and institutions of Jiyugaoka and all visitors of the +J pavilion who helped this research exercise become an urban event - and succeed.

co+labo+J Jiyugaoka urban research pavilion DAY 3 22 July 2013 

co+labo+J Jiyugaoka urban research pavilion DAY 2 21 July 2013 

co+labo+J Jiyugaoka urban research pavilion DAY 1 20 July 2013  

co+labo+J Jiyugaoka urban research pavilion DAY 1  

early morning 20 July ... co+labo students setting up the pavilion

co+labo countdown towards opening of Jiyugaoka urban research pavilion ...  

The pavilion will be erected in Kouhobutsugawa Street and, in the period 20-23 July, serve as the centre for collection of data on urban quality of that area. 
If you are in Tokyo in that period, please visit the co+labo +J urban research pavilion and contribute to success of the Mn'M project.

co+labo team has started work on construction of Jiyugaoka urban research pavilion  

The work has started at the grounds of the local Shinto shrine on Saturday morning. The testing of the tent structure was conducted under the guidance of Mr Shimura, the representative of local community which generously supports this co+labo Mn'M project. The pavilion will be erected in Kouhobutsugawa Street and, in the period 20-23 July, serve as the centre for collection of data on urban quality of that area. 
If you are in Tokyo in that period, please visit the co+labo +J urban research pavilion and contribute to success of the Mn'M project.

Mn’M in Tokyo - Jiyugaoka co+labo urban research pavilion  

in summer, autumn and winter of 2013, Kuhonbutsugawa Street in Jiyugaoka will be the site of investigations within the major research Mn’M project.  The work will be conducted in an urban research pavilion. The jury (Davisi Boontharm, Tetsuo Kondo, Ryoko Iwase, Sano Sano, Tamao Hashimoto, chaired by Darko Radovic) reviewed internal co+labo submissions  for  design of the summer pavilion, and awarded the first prize to co+labo undergraduate student Kira Horie. The pavilion will be erected on 19 July and the fieldwork conducted 20-23 July. 

If you are in Tokyo, please visit the co+labo +J urban research pavilion and contribute to our data collection.

in collaboration with NUS, co+labo, 3-7.6.2013 has conducted a dérive fieldwork session in Singapore

the fieldwork In the Search of Urban Intensities - Asia was part of the co+labo contribution to the major  research project Measuring the non-Measurable, which is conducted at IKI - International Keio Institute for Architecture and Urbanism 2O11-13. co+labo team: Darko Radović+Davisi Boontharm+Tamao Hashimoto+Milica Muminović+Ilze Paklone. The fieldwork was hosted by Professors Heng Chye Kiang and involved NUS research assistants Yeo Su-Jan, Chia Patricia and Lim Sze Ying.

in collaboration with Chulalongkorn and Silpakorn Universities, 26-29.6.2013 a co+labo team has conducted the fieldwork in Bangkok

the fieldwork In the Search of Urban Intensities - Asia was part of the co+labo contribution to the major research project Measuring the non-Measurable, which is conducted at IKI - International Keio Institute for Architecture and Urbanism 2O11-13 

co+labo team: Darko Radović+Davisi Boontharm+Tamao Hashimoto+Milica Muminovic+Ken Akatsuka+

Yoshiaki Kato

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The fieldwork was hosted by Professors Yui Issarathumnoon Wimonrart (Chula) and Api Kasemsook and Nuttinee Karnchanaporn (Silpakorn)

 and their team of research assistants.