Biotechnology Wearable Cafe 1 at Shibuya Hikarie on March 12 was a great success! (25 attendees)
Next, a post science cafe discussion will be held to explore the topic further in an informal setting.
ALL welcome! No registration required!
Date: Monday, 19 March 2020 Time: 15:00 – 19:00 Place:Tokyo Institute of Technology, South 5 Building, 407A (Workshop Room)
For the 3rd series of “Tokyo Tech Transdisciplinary Technology Theory”, Heather Barnett from Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London will be invited for casual lecture and free discussion at Shibuya Hikarie 8/Court, Tokyo.
Biotechnology Wearable Cafe 1: “Many Headed: co-creating with the collective”
Admire the original slime fungal art with Mr. Heather Burnett of the University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins. From there, we will discuss what it means for humans and other organisms to coexist, what “life” is, and what kind of symbiosis can be considered in the mega city “Tokyo” in the form of a science cafe.
Event Information:
Date: Monday, March 12, 2018 Time:15:00 – 18:00 Opening time: 14:30 Venue: Shibuya Hikarie 8 / COURT Facilitator: Professor Kayoko Nohara (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Guest speaker: Heather Barnett (Tokyo Institute of Technology Invited Professor & Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London Faculty Staff)
Previously at Life Science Fashion Studio PJ (Arts Council Tokyo), we were thinking about “What are people wearing in Tokyo 10 years from now?”. But this time, at Dr. Betti’s Philosophy Cafe, we discussed about “In the first place, what is Tokyo?”
Japanese, foreigners, those who are living in Tokyo, those who come from rural areas… the meaning of “Tokyo” is different for each person. A place where tradition and modernity coexist, a chaotic fusion of west and east, and elusive space… a bizarre deviation and discomfort seems to exist between image from the outside and reality inside. Betti analogizes it as “Kaleidoscope”: an infinitely changing composition that you cannot be fully grasped even if we reach it out.
The discussion was continued with the focus of “something” important that we should not forget, that we are trying to express as future wearable.
