Sanriku Project: Seawall Report

This series of design and planning workshops, conducted with individuals representing various local community groups impacted by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, focused on the newly planned single-use commercial areas slated to be raised 10 meters above sea level, of Shizugawa, Minami Sanriku. Each participant selected an 800m X 100m section of the new plan, visually documenting their memories, concerns, and hopes for the future, in order to increase communication between official and grass-roots planning efforts.

Contributors: Miho Mazereeuw, Ted Gilman, Yoshihiro Hiraoka, Chen Chen, Kenya Endo, Takuya Iwamura, Josh Margul, Tristie Tajima, Nicola Saladino, Sophia Xuejie Jiang, Ted Bestor, Andrew Littlejohn, Jade Luo, Andrea Murray, Grace Song, Sky Milner, Jean You, Ayumi Kanamoto, Ryoji Watanabe, Hiroko Kumaki, Yusuke Tsugawa, Hikari Senju

Partners: Yoshihiro Hiraoka (Miyagi University)

Supported by: Japanese Disaster Relief Fund Boston, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Pacific Associates Limited, MISTI Japan

Summer 2013