1/2 Takeover Tour
6 PM
Takeover Tour with Momoyo Kaijima, Professor for Architectural Behaviorology, ETH Zurich
‘Make Do With Now’ sheds light on an emerging generation of architects and urban practitioners in Japan. Largely entering professional practice following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Fukushima nuclear disaster, this generation is developing a range of critical, ecological, and social approaches that creatively ‘make do’ – with limited resources, found materials, and existing spaces – while seeking appropriate responses to the urgent problems of the present. Turning their backs on the traditional image of the architect-author, these practitioners are articulating a new architectural agency in working from the periphery, exploiting gaps in the system, and occupying new roles in the process that have previously been overlooked.
With its ‘Takeover Tours’ the S AM invites external experts to intervene in its exhibitions, offering their own interpretations of the objects on display through unique tours or providing annotations of the exhibition in dialogue with S AM curators.
On Thursday, 15 December, please join us in inviting Momoyo Kaijima, professor of Architectural Behaviorology at the ETH Zurich and co-founder of the Japanese architectural practice Atelier Bow-Wow, for a special tour through ‘Make Do With Now’ that will focus on the changing role of the architect in Japanese society, among other topics.
Momoyo Kaijima has been serving as professor of Architectural Behaviorology at ETH Zurich since 2017. She previously taught at the Art and Design School of the University of Tsukuba (assistant professor 2000–09, associate professor 2009–22). She has also taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Rice University, TU Delft, and Columbia University. Alongside designing houses, public buildings, and station plazas with her firm Atelier Bow-Wow (co-founded with Yoshiharu Tsukamoto in 1992), she has conducted numerous architectural investigations into the city such as Made in Tokyo and Pet Architecture. In 2018, she was the curator of the Japan Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale.
Costs: CHF 12.-, red. CHF 8.-
Participants are requested to register in advance via: event@sam-basel.org
Photo: Tom Bisig
