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Yusaku Imamura

player Erasure:
Yu-Sun Ko [erasure psychology]
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Jonas Upton-Hansen [P-17]
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player Transformation:
Koen Klinkers [linear cities]
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Pato Hayashi [p11]
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1E

 

 


The public toilet has no doors .

1O A man inside the toilet becomes aware of being watched.
1T He adjusts his posture to prevent himself from being seen.
1 M
He leaves quickly through the exit on the other side.
   
2 E No one uses the public toilet anymore.
2 O Bun-Kyo-Ku ward Park & Greens Department has to find new ways to deal with toilets.
(several complaints were received from users and local residents)
2 T The park becomes one big toilet.
(people starts using the park to dispose of their waste, making the park dirty and unhygenic)
this kind of condition already exists in Tokyo. Tokyo drunk salary-men use electric poles as WC.
2 M Normal park users migrate to other places.
     
3 E Homeless people are erased from the streets.
(as they start migrating into the park)
3 O Ex-park users begin to use streets that were previously occupied by occupied by the homeless.
this also already exists.  
  3 T Kasuga-Dori in Bun-Kyo-Ku becomes a linear park.
(the once deserted street becomes very popular and the government decides to plant trees and shrubs)
 
  3 M Public toilets are subsequently constructed in the linear park.
(initiated by Bun-Kyo-Ku Park & Greens department)
 
       
  4 E Children play areas are erased due to the increasing amount of people using the linear park.  
  4 O As the children move away, the toilets become more popular. pornographic vending machines are installed near the toilets [m190].  
  4 T As the children go home to play and the adults play on the streest, this area in Tokyo becomes very safe.  
  4 M Gan-Kuro, Shibuya guys and gals migrate to linear park and this area becomes trendy .  
       
  5 E Shops for older people close because of the growing amount of young people.  
  5 O Shibuya print club, 'puri-kura' [m191], booths are installed widely in the linear park, using the new vacant spaces.  
  5 T Crime increases in the area and the police department begins to use the puri-kura machines to take pictures of suspects.  
  5 M Due to police surveillance of the area, the gan-kuro decide to meet elsewhere.
new dating machines are installed.
[p-11 B] new dating machines operate as personalised sign spaces to create a point of sociability, arranging the time and space for discrete meetings.  
         
  6 E Vending machines for soft-drinks decrease in numbers.
(taken over by the dating machines)
 
  6 O Tokyo Transport department is interested to put new Subway station in linear park [p-17].
(because of large amount of people using the area)
hidden agenda: think about the commitment of citizens, not just the authorities.  
  6 T Local residents get organised to oppose the subway scheme.  
  6 M 'anti-subway campaign' use linear park as protest-advertisement-space.
(migration of discontent into visual signs)
[P-11B] branding of street into political space.  
         
  7 E Pedestrian walkways erased as a consequence of the protest.
(the protest boards take up walkway space)
 
  7 O The Tokyo Subway Authority hosts a meeting to propose programs to interest locals to agree with the subway station. [p-17]  
  7 T The community splits since some people agree and some don't.  
  7 M Tokyo Transport Authority decide to move the 'proposed scheme' to another site [m193]. how can these 'powers' of large chains retail stores, advertising etc involve the power and responsibilities of citizens?  
         
  8 E Empty site are disappearing due to new prospects on the proposed site.  
  8 O The convenience store, 7-11, becomes interested in the new subway project and proposes to collaborate.  
  8 T The new nana-juichi (7-11) line is a 24-hour line that consists of subway supermarkets.  
  8 M Due to the nana-juichi line, salary men can stay in the city later at night and still go home, a migration in time-space use  
         
  9 E erasure of the typical salary man.

 
  9 O Owners of capsule hotel starts to consider other options as their businesses are under threat.  
  9 T Love hotels and capsule hotels becomes cheaper and cheaper.  
  9 M More people move to areas close to the nana-juichi line.  
         
  10 E Tranquility in the area around the nana-juichi line are disturbed.  
  10 O The new katsuo eki attracts other develpers and entertainment programs [p-17].  
  10 T A new 24-district, Tokyo 24 HLC, appears over the entire line. [linear cities]  
  10 M Land prices rise steeply along the new line.  
         
  11 E Mr.Harara [m198]. erasure of small local shops through gentrification. new animator, urban planning department: juxtapose opposite facilities into the train stations, such as cemetary/ crematorium since this is always a difficult issue.  
  11 O Tokyo Subway Authority hands out brief for small scale shop developments.  
  11 T 7-11 co-operates with PARCO.
PARCO decides to input cultural facilities.
 
  11 M Liminal advertising spaces are inserted in-between the residential and nana-juichi areas. this triggers migration of money into housing and at the same time filters the noise and the externalities from the new developments.
[p-11E] Urban Para-Site plugs in on all the levels of the Urban Gallery.
 
         
  12 E Mr. Harara goes nuts, and dies because he has to close his shop. this is becoming a common condition around Tokyo 24 HLC.
 
  12 O Aoyama cemetary are receiving too many deceased.
this leads to the expansion of the cemetary along train line in collaboration of with the nana-juichi line.
 
  12 T PARCO commercialises the cemetary into PARCO 'linear' Hyper Cemetary.
Korean cemetary is a mound that faces to the south, and serves as a meeting place as well.
 
  12 M PARCO 'linear' Hyper Cemetary is a wall of memorial signs which separates the actual corpse and the memorial plaque.
[p-11] Mobile branding. A reverse mutation of the prototype. 'Memorial Plaques' contain the meanings of its host.
 
         
  13 E Erasure of normal graveyards
 
  13 O 'Memorabilia Puli-Kura' machines are produced. You can purchase your own memorabilia plaques even before you die [m191].
 
  13 T The memorabilia plaques are placed into the pavement [m192].
generally, spiritual spaces and objects are packed together, this could create a new spiritual topography across Tokyo.
 
  13 M Some older people are devestated about these new trends.
good conflict
 
         
  14 E A lot of old people are leaving Tokyo 24 HLC as a result.
 
  14 O Because the old people are leaving, new spaces become available in Tokyo 24 HLC.
 
  14 T House prices thereby go down
 
  14 M The old people from Tokyo 24 HLC move to the new city, 'DAIBA', in protest.
(why should only young people move to new towns?)
 
         
  15 E Traditional cultures start to shift away from Tokyo 24 HLC.
think about action plan. Tama new town, built in the 1960s is now emptied of young people, only the aged remain.
 
  15 O PARCO proposes to create perpendicular strips that intersect with Tokyo 24 HLC. this encourages more cultural interaction.
an ambiguos area between the old and the new. how does one deal with the problem of new towns?
 
  15 T A 24-hour Guggenheim is set up at the intersection, near the T-CAT.
this site actually co-incides with the T-CAT, city air terminal. It is like an entrance to Tokyo.
 
  15 M Transfer passengers can now visit the 24-hour Guggenheim during their trandfer time at Narita Int. Airport. 7-11, JAL and PARCO are all involved in this scheme.
 
         
  16 E Haneda Airport becomes a 24 hour airport due to move to reclaimed land.
the monorail is no longer adequate.
Old Haneda is too close to the city to operate in 24 hours.
 
  16 O Haneda needs new connection to the city.
 
  16 T Trandformation of Haneda tunnel [m200] to join with Tokyo 24 HLC through stacking of infrastruction [m286].
 
  16 M Migration of tourists to visit the 24-hour Guggenheim via both airports.
The market for personalised sign-space, memorabilia, rockets internationally.
 
         
  17 E Due to complaints from the increasing number of visiting tourists, Tokyo Metropolitan Goverment decides to finally put doors on all their public toilets.
 
  17 O
 
  17 T
 
  17 M