Product Description
“Tokyo Totem – A Guide to Tokyo”
MONNIK
This publication is the result of a collaboration between international and Japanese authors and makers from various disciplines, ranging from art to social science and from urban studies to design. What they have in common is their interest and fascination with cities, and in particular Tokyo’s urban culture.
This eclectic group grew from an international urban research and exploration workshop on Tokyo organised by Amsterdam-based studio Monnik and hosted by Tokyo’s SHIBAURA HOUSE exactly 3 years ago, on 30 October 2012. Everybody’s efforts resulted in the essay’s, maps, photo essay’s, collage’s, poem’s, manga’s, illustrations and observation’s that have been collected in this book that is hard to categorize. It is called a guide, not because it helps you to find places to see, or places to eat or drink, but because it helps you to read and see the city differently.
Each contribution let’s you experience a different city. You may look at the city through the eyes of a bathhouse connoisseur, a host, an architect, a topographer, a flaneur, a konbini anthropologist, a foreigner, an artist or a child. In a way each author is a guide, and thus this guide book is reality 46 guidebooks. Amongst your ‘guides’ are social design researcher Atsushi Miura, Tokyo Urban Basin Society president Norihisa Minagawa, architect Julian Worrall, architect Julian Worrall, artist Arne Hendriks, editor Kohei Fukazawa, architect Yasutaka Yoshimura, visual artist Jan Rothuizen, urbanism professor Christian Dimmer, anthropologist Gavin H. Whitelaw, bathhouse connoisseur Greg Dvorak and many others.
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Contents
Dear reader
Christiaan Fruneaux, Edwin Gardner／Monnik
Chapter 0.5
Find Yourself
Foreigners of the world unite!
Arthur van Beek
The noble art of subjective exploration
Christiaan Fruneaux
There I was
Aukje Dekker
Tsim tsum
Arne Hendriks
Chapter 1
Walk the land
Deciphering Tokyo through its Suribachi topography
A recommended tour of Roppongi’s uneven topography
Norihisa Minagawa
The formation of Tokyo – Its topography and history
Kohei Fukazawa
Tokyo Jisou maps
Japan Map Center
Hidden terrain
Niklas Fanelsa
Okina kutsu, big shoe
Pink Pony Express
Conversations in a teashop
Willemien Dorresteijn
Tokyo slide
Anneke Abhelakh
The city of children
Chris Berthelsen
The empty sign
Anneke Abhelakh
Chapter 2
Follow the rhythm
City beyond time
Joris Berkhout
Konbini morphology
Gavin H. Whitelaw
The naked neighborhood – Exploring the metropolitan bathscape
Greg Dvorak
Moment in stillness
David Orkand
Documentarians of change -A short history of street fashion in Tokyo
Daphne Mohajer Va Pesaran
Time in the city of temporal monuments
Julian Worrall
Below 1.30
Thekla Boven, Bastian Boss, David Bauer
Itadakimasu:Digesting the konbini’s many menus
Gavin H. Whitelaw
Chapter 3
Choose your city
In the arena of alternative modernities
Julian Worrall
Still power: sartorial surveillance and the under-city
Jonathan M. Hall, Yi Zhang
A machine for living
Joris Berkhout, Thijs Middeldorp
Super legal buildings
Yasutaka Yoshimura
Hera shibori
Fritzi Ponse
Saturation points
Gabriel Verret
Tracing the past in the city of the future
Jephta Dullaart
Love of nature
Anna Berkhof
Plant uniform
Anna Berkhof, Daphne Mohajer Va Pesaran, Cameron McKean
The sea we would like to see
Manar Moursi
Chapter 4
Make yourself at home
Feeling at home in Tokyo
Anna Berkhof
Haruka’s house
Jan Rothuizen
Omoiyari
Maiko Arrieta Aoki
Tokyo homes
Maren Godzik
Signboard machiya
Niklas Fanelsa
Enjoy House
Charlotte van Zanten
Public to private
Will Robinson
Single ladies
Tomoko Kubo
Shaken spaces
Mara Duer, David Labi
New family
Inara Nevskaya
Mapping konbinity
Gavin H. Whitelaw
The shared town – Tokyo’s future
Atsushi Miura
New urban commons
Christian Dimmer
Close to home
Monnik
The guide project
Monnik
This side up
Jasper van den Berg
Lust in translation
Daniel Ruigrok
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Monnik, co-founded by Edwin Gardner and Christiaan Fruneaux, is an urban research laboratory based in Amsterdam for investigation, imagination and storytelling. They are fascinated by the triumph and tragedy of modern life. They make texts, objects and events.
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