いつもお世話になっております。国立民族学博物館の鍵谷と申します。
国立民族学博物館の査読付き国際オンラインジャーナル『TRAJECTORIA』で編集委員を務められるオックスフォード大学のInge Daniels教授より、デジタル展示「Disobedient Buildings」のご紹介です。
ロンドンにおける高層住宅の老朽化とそのケアをテーマにした大変興味深いプロジェクトになっています。
ぜひご覧いただけますと幸いです。
以下、Ingeさんからの情報を共有させていただきます。
Disobedient Buildings invites us to rethink the future of housing by shifting attention away from demolition towards investing in existing buildings and the people who call them home.
The exhibition marks the culmination of five years of international research funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It draws on thirty months of ethnographic fieldwork I conducted in Central London between 2020 and 2023 in six modernist tower blocks. These blocks face shared challenges such as ageing infrastructure, social change and shifting housing policies. The project explores what it feels like to be at home within these often-overlooked buildings, foregrounding everyday practices of care.
Central to the exhibition are materials collected through research packs during the COVID-19 lockdowns, including postcards, disposable camera photographs and hand-drawn maps. They are presented alongside photographs, films and audio recordings I created, to form a multi-sensory archive of residents’ everyday lives. Together, these contributions illuminate what residents value, what they struggle with and how they produce a sense of belonging in spaces marked by decay, stigma and systemic disregard.
I do hope you find it interesting.
Inge
鍵谷開 Kai Kagitani
Operations Manager, TRAJECTORIA
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National Museum of Ethnology, Japan
Editorial Office, TRAJECTORIA
Senri EXPO Park 10-1
Suita, Osaka, Japan 565-8511