July-August, 2019

The 2019 xLAB Summer Program focused on Tokyo’s resilience and consists of studios, seminar lectures, faculty lectures, and a symposium at The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan). With a focus on the city of Tokyo using the 2020 Summer Olympics as an urban event, participants researched themes of resiliency under the leadership of interdisciplinary faculty.

The group studio developed a proposal for the island of Harumi, which will host the athletes of the Olympics 2020. Resilience is not a static status but a process of change, empowering communities to prepare through their everyday activities.

HaruMIX will focus on small interventions within the ground plan that become a LARGE SYSTEM for CHANGE with dual-use themes of integrating bosai systems within WORK, TOURISM and FITNESS. This is developed through the perspective of three distinct narratives, a single working mother, a group of tourists and an elderly man.

Mental Health X Physical Health

STUDENTS SEBASTIAN ARGUELLO, HIROKI AWAJI, TEN HYAKUTAKE, LUCAS NGIAM, LARISA OVALLES PAULINO, XIAOWAN QIN, ROBERTO RANSOM, ECHO SHI, MUMU TASHIRO, ARCHITECTURAL CONSULTANTS JUNPEI MIWA, SAYAKA HAMAMOTO, HAYATO FUKADA

FACULTY MIHO MAZEREEUW, KAZ YONEDA, MITSUHIRO KANADA