Lost Homes Workshop in Wajima

Event Details

A workshop will be held to recreate the "hometown landscapes" lost in the disaster through diorama models.

In this workshop, participants will work together with architecture students to complete a large-scale diorama model, recalling the townscapes of the past and expressing hopes for the recovery of areas severely affected by the earthquake. Over the course of the seven-day workshop, the initially white model will gradually be brought to life with color. What place holds your memories? Come and see how the townscape becomes vibrant again—alongside flags of remembrance—at the venue.

The "Lost Homes Workshop" began as a model restoration project initiated by the Tsukihashi Laboratory at Kobe University, as part of recovery support efforts following the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011. Architecture students create 1:500 scale diorama models of the towns as they were before the disaster, working together with local residents to recreate the hometown landscapes lost in the earthquake—layering memories and colors onto the models.

Following previous workshops in Jike, Suzu and in the Kujūkumo Bay area of Ogi, Noto Town, this workshop will focus on creating a large-scale diorama of central Wajima City, centered around Asaichi Street.

Wajima Morning Market is one of Japan’s three major morning markets and has continued for over a thousand years since the Heian period. Due to a large-scale fire that occurred on January 1, 2024, the market lost its original venue, and discussions are currently underway regarding its reopening. At present, "Traveling Wajima Morning Markets" are being held across Japan, and Y-Plaza Wajima, the venue for this workshop, is one of the locations hosting these traveling markets.

[Lost Homes Workshop]
 - Co-organized by: 
    Noto Resilience and Revitalization Center (Kanazawa University), Center for Resilient Design (Kobe University)
 - Model making and workshop: 
    Toyoshima Lab (Faculty of Transdisciplinary Sciences for Innovation, Institute of Transdisciplinary Sciences for Innovation, Kanazawa University), Tsukihashi/Asai Laboratory (Kobe University), Takeuchi Laboratory (Kanazawa Institute of Technology), etc.

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Contact

Kanazawa University Noto Resilience and Revitalization Center Office  / E-mail: notomirai(a)adm.kanazawa-u.ac.jp *(a) should be replaced by @.