Alone Again, Or: Two projects exploring life in Tokyo’s evolving fabric

Tokyo’s urbanity conjures myriad assumptions; high-speed, high-density, high-fashion and high buildings too. Spaces for social encounter and neighbourliness have to be nurtured. KoozArch speaks about this with CCA Director Giovanna Borasi and the editors of “Sharing Tokyo” (Actar, 2023).
Giovanna Borasi, Mohsen Mostafavi, and Kayoko Ota interviewed by Federica Zambeletti and KoozArch

From “Sharing Tokyo. Artifice and the Social World” (2023), edited by Mohsen Mostafavi and Kayoko Ota, published by Actar. Photographer: Kenta Hasegawa.

Tokyo’s urbanity conjures myriad assumptions; high-speed, high-density, high-fashion and high buildings too. Spaces for social encounter and neighbourliness have to be nurtured; this is the subject of the book Sharing Tokyo: Artifice and the Social World (Actar, 2023), edited by Mohsen Mostafavi and Kayoko Ota. Contemporarily Tokyo exists as a laboratory where ideas around living alone are being continuously tested and where the potential of socialisation by design becomes an active concern. This is explored in the second of a trilogy of documentary films conceived by Giovanna Borasi, Director of the Canadian Center for Architecture and directed by Daniel Schwarz, When We Live Alone.

Read the full interview here.

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