At the Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation 2, 9th Session, Tadasu Takamine, the contemporary artist and director, will be invited to give a talk titled, “Positionality and Expression.” Please come and participate, as anyone is welcome to attend. (Akagi)
Venue: Tsukuba University, Bldg. 6A, Rm208
Date & Time: Friday, June 12, 12:15〜13:30

At the Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation 2, 8th Session, Fuyuki Yamakawa, the Khoomei singer and artist, was invited and he gave a talk titled, “The Body and Society.”
He also gave an impromptu performance on the spot.
He stated that the Fukushima Dai-chi Nuclear Power Station accident has become an undeniable proof that our body is physically linked to the world, and mentioned the importance of exposing what is invisible, of recognizing distance, and to imagine something that is far away. (Akagi)

At the Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation 2, 8th Session, Fuyuki Yamakawa, the Khoomei singer and artist, will be invited to give a talk titled, “The Body and Society.” Please come and participate, as anyone is welcome to attend. (Akagi)
Venue: Tsukuba University, Bldg. 6A, Rm208
Date & Time: Friday, June 5, 12:15〜13:30

At the Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation 2, 7^th Session, Kenji Kai, Chief of Projects & Support, Sendai Mediatheque, was invited and he gave a talk titled, “Vision (which comes later) Formulation – Vision is created while working (I suppose)”.
Keeping visual images of the disaster-stricken areas recorded by both the victims in Sendai and those in unaffected areas, each in their own thoughtful ways, was one of the activities of Sendai Mediatheque. When entering the disaster-stricken areas and taking videos of the scenes, he mentioned that many of the participants would wonder if they had the right to record the images.
In the event of a catastrophe or a major accident, it does not mean that only the person or party involved has the right to talk about it. He said that what is important is, even if you are an outsider, how you earn the support so that you are able to speak out and how you approach the person affected. (Akagi)

At the Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation 2, 7th Session, Kenji Kai, Chief of Projects & Support, Sendai Mediatheque, will be invited to give a talk titled, “Vision (which comes later) Formulation – Vision is created while working (I suppose)”. Please come and participate, as anyone is welcome to attend. (Akagi)
Venue: Tsukuba University, Bldg. 6A, Rm208
Date & Time: Friday, May 29, 12:15〜13:30

At the Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation 2, 6th Session, Yusuke Kakei, Head of issue+design, was invited and he gave a talk titled, “Social Design: The Design Mentality That Solves Local Issues”. The focus of his lecture was on the activities of issue+design, which solves various social problems by employing the power of design. To change from a society that is dependent on public aid to a type of society that is self-reliant and mutually cooperative, people need to be motivated to participate, and it is the strength of design, art and beauty that can motivate a movement to drive people to want to participate. It is something that relates to our CR activities as well. (Akagi)

At the Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation 2, 6th Session, Yusuke Kakei, Head of issue+design, will be invited to give a talk titled, “Social Design: The Design Mentality That Solves Local Issues”. Please come and participate, as anyone is welcome to attend. (Akagi)
Venue: Tsukuba University, Bldg. 6A, Rm208
Date & Time: Friday, May 22, 12:15〜13:30

At the Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation 2, 5th Session, Nobuaki Takekawa, the contemporary artist, was invited and he gave a talk titled, “Children who pretend not to see, and children who jeer.”
He began explaining about the structure of bullying among children and went on to talk about and analyze hate-speech, demonstrations, the anti-nuclear power movement and such.
He spoke about the fact that a build-up of small activities can bring about a large trend and about the changes in the positionality of those affected after the 3.11 catastrophe. I felt that both were deeply relevant to the future of our CR activities. (Akagi)