A-small-lab, Chris Berthelsen’s creativity research and practice studio, has just launched an amazing blog called Fixes. Fixes investigates and documents “alterations of space/objects at the public/private boundary in suburban Tokyo.”
There are many creative examples of people using simple and recycled materials to improve spaces outside homes and shops in a residential area. A wire coat hanger stores outdoor sandals on a beam, someone creates a wood stand for plants and bbq seating on top of a driveway boundary, a gardener recycles plastic storage containers for garden edging, and, above, someone uses a cinder block to even out the entry stairs to a residence.
Chris has an amazing eye for the creativity of Japanese people making small changes to their environment and blurring the boundary of private and public space. This blog project is simply genius.
Posted by Chris on February 12, 2010 at 9:12 am
Thanks for this Jared.
If any Tokyo Green Space readers have anything they’d like to contribute to Fixes, please do get in touch.
Chris
Posted by Shu Kuge, PhD on February 13, 2010 at 12:03 pm
This website is brilliant. All those “mending 繕い” are at once familiar and strange. Can I say “uncanny”?
Posted by Fixes on March 25, 2010 at 9:30 pm
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