Production for Reduction
Today, the city of Tokyo is confronting several prominent social issues, such as extreme aging, a growing single population and the beginning of population shrinkage. There are around 810,000 empty houses in the city while many new apartments are still being built, replacing family owned factories w...
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| Publicado en: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ardeth, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Ardeth
2020
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| Acceso en liña: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | Today, the city of Tokyo is confronting several prominent social issues, such as extreme aging, a growing single population and the beginning of population shrinkage. There are around 810,000 empty houses in the city while many new apartments are still being built, replacing family owned factories with small rooms for singles.As the new technology in urban factories trigger the shift from “how to make” to “what to make” in production, more focus shall be given to production steps such as “meet”, “talk”, “inspire”, “think” and “share”. Coincidentally, these steps are what is often missing from the daily lives of those living alone in new apartments, isolated from the existing neighborhoods. What if a factory aims at combining, there in the city, the production of living activities with the production of products? A theoretical project has challenged this question as part of a pursuit of new ideas for the time of reduction.Shrinking population, extreme aging, low birth rate, but a growing singles population are some of the prominent social structures underpinning the 2020 Olympics preparation for Japan (Eberstadt, 2012). Unlike the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, when the economy was growing and industries were flourishing, today the city of Tokyo is confronting a very different set of issues and is in need of new ideas that can accommodate residents’ desires at a time of reduction. |
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