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Contents:selected projects 2006-2013

01 CV:

02 DESIGN:

The Republic Plaza and Fish Market

Delta Generali

Book Fair Stand-The Embassy of Japan

The Barn House

M4 / Dwelling in the area of important historical value

M5 /m:cu_x Mediateka/Centre for Study/Programme change

M6 / CTRL+ARCH+DEL

M9 / Museum of Archaeology

03 RESEARCH:

A Week of Dérive-Mapping the Moment of Intensity

Intensity in Between

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Milica Muminović is an architect and PhD candidate of the Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University, Japan, with Mombukagakusho Scholarship. She has graduated at Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, Serbia. She has held the position of teaching assistant at Faculty of Architecture, University of Novi Pazar, Serbia, and of research assistant at Global COE Program and of teaching assistant at Keio University in Japan (current). She took part in design competition, which won the fi rst prize for the ‘Next Generation Sustainable House’ in Taiki-cho, Hokkaido which was constructed and opened in November 2012. Her present research extends the professional experience through studies conducted in Japan about identity, places, spaces in between architecture and urban design, with emphasis on residential architecture in Tokyo.

Milica Muminović

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3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Kanagawa 223-8522, offi ce14-620e

+81-80-4141-7320

[email protected]

www.radovic.sd.keio.ac.jp/tag/milica-muminovic

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Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade (2003-2008)

Graduate Engineer of Architecture- M. Arch.

PhD Candidate at Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University,

Japan

(until September 2013)

Advanced Assemblage Analysis of Built Environment and Persistence of the

Identity of Place in Yanesen

The Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho:MEXT) Scholarship

Architectural and Urban Design, Place Theories, Identity of the Place,

Sustainable and Culturally Responsible Residential Architecture

Education:

2003-2008

2010-2013

Disseration:

Sep 2013

Scholarship:

2010-2013

Principal

Interests:

The first prize at the International Design Competition for the ‘Next generation

sustainable house’ in Taiki-cho, Hokkaido. title of the entry: “The Barn House”

Organization: LIXIL JS Foundation

competition design team: millica muminović, komatsu katsuhito, hashida

wataru, shinohara masato, kato yoshiaki, sasamura yoshihiro, with darko

radović

the barn house has been built in November 2012

The Barn House project has been published in:

Shinkenchiku, 9.2012, pp. 35-38

Shinkenchiku, 1.2013, pp. 37-42a+u, 13:02. No. 509, pp. 44-47

Awards:

2012

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Teaching Assistant and Visiting Lecturer at State University of Novi Pazar, Serbia,

Department for Technical and Technological Sciences-Architecture

Teaching Assistant a at Keio University, Japan

School of Science for Open and Environmental Systems

Architectural and Urban Design Workshop in Alicante, Spain

Title: “Re-mapping Alicante/ Sustainable Urban Identity”

Research and development of pre-workshop materials. Guiding students in the

visits of Barcelona, Madrid and Alicante. Tutoring in the group of Japanese and

Spanish students.

Architecture and Urban Design Workshop with Leeds University@co+labo, Tokyo

title: “nezu+yanaka/public+private/density+intensity”

participation as tutor/presentation: “on fieldwork, methods and intensity”

Participation at the Architectural and Urban Design workshop, Split, Croatia

“Density Intensity Resilience-The Split Case”

(University of Tokyo, Keio University and University of Split)

team leader

Participation at the “Tokyo Creative Urbanism revisited” Workshop-Daikanyama,

Harajuku, Kichijoji, Shimokitazawa, Nezu, Nakameguro

(Keio University and National University of Singapore)

Tutoring and preparations for the exhibition at Design Fiesta, Tokyo

Experience:

2008-2010

2010-2013

Other related

experience :

Mar 201202-12

Mar 201223-29

Sep 201112-20

July 201019-31

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Book sections:

- M. Muminovic, W. Hashida, and R.A. Balboa (2012), 'A Week of Derive-Mapping

a Moment of Intensity: The Charts of Lives', in D. Radovic, et al. (eds.), The Split

Case: Density, Intensity, Resilience (Tokyo: Flick Studio), 84-91.

- Muminovic, M. (2013), 'Intensity in between', in D. Radovic (ed.), Mn'M

Workbook 2. Tokyo Dérive-In Search for Urban Intensities (Tokyo: Flick Studio),

26-31.

Journals (peer reviewed):

-M. Muminovic, D. Radovic, and J. Almazan, “On Innovative Practices Which

Contribute to Preservation of the Place Identity: The Example of Yanesen,

Tokyo”, Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 328-40,

Mar. 2013.

- M. Muminovic, and D. Radovic, “Intensity and Identity of the place: the role of

public-private interface in Nezu, Tokyo”, Journal of the Faculty of Architecture

Silpakorn University (forthcoming)

- J. Almazan, Y. Tairako, M. Suzuki, M. Muminovic, G. Inoue, and S. Kawakubo,

“CROSS-CULTURAL PARTICIPATORY STUDY ON PREFERRED PUBLIC SPACES.

Re-imaging the Urban Identity of Alicante City (Part II)”, AIJ Journal of

Architecture and Planning, vol. 77, pp.807-17. Apr. 2013.

Publications:

English (fluent)

German (basic)

Japanese (basic)

Languages:

Software: Auto CAD, Adobe CS, ArcGIS, Microsoft Office, 3D Studio MAX (basic)

02 DESIGN/The Republic Plaza and Fish Market /06/42

The Architectural and Urban Design Competition

The Republic Plaza and Fish Market, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2009.

Team (alphabetically): Vladimir Kovac, Milos Mihalovic, Milica

Muminovic, Vladimir Parezanin

The Republic Plaza in Novi Sad is located at the end of main

pedestrian zone in the city centre. Thus it represents the

end/or opening of the pedestrian promenade. The current

condition of the space is highly devastated and demands the

revitalization, not only in the domain of the plaza and fish

market but in much broader area. The current function of the

space, fish market, is operating only in the morning and the

whole area becomes empty during the afternoon and night.

We propose:

(1) multifunctional space which can operate during the whole

day

(2) flexible and transformable architecture

(3) iconic building which will have the potential to trigger the

revitalization process by reuse and design.

The conceptual idea of the complex consists of the attractive

roof and multifunctional transformable space beneath the

roof.

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02 DESIGN/Delta Generali Building /10/42

Conceptual Design Competition

Residential and commercial building-Delta Generali Building

Kragujevac, Serbia, 2009.

This project was done under the Architectural Studio

Rakocevic, Belgrade, Serbia

Design team: Prof Milan Rakocevic, Milica Muminovic, Vladimir

Parezanin, Vladimir Kovac, Milos Mihajlovic, Jasna Maksimovic,

Stevan Jakovljevic

http://www.birorak.rs/index.php?page=delta-generali&hl=en_

US

The initial idea for the design of the new Delta Generali

building was to bring together the requirement of the project

with those of the particularity of the site and surrounding

context. The key goal was to design an attractive building,

which will become a landmark with its strongly expressive

facade. The building aims to become a marker of the site

and parallel to that, to represent the company and to make

overture to the future experience of the city of Kragujevac.

The design of the building expresses a union between the

advanced computer technology and artistic essence of the

building. The uniqueness of the new building amplifies and

reinforces urban gesture in the city’s main street and opens

the possibility for the marketing of the company.

Total floor area: 5 500 sq meters

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Kragujevac S e r b i a

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02 DESIGN/Book Fair Stand-The Embassy of Japan /14/42

Conceptual Design Proposal

The Embassy of Japan, Stand for the Book Fair

Belgrade, Serbia, 2009.

Author: Milica Muminovic

The conceptual idea for the design of the stand of Embassy

of Japan was to bring together the requirement of the project

(to exhibit the books) with the idea of representing Japan. The

guiding thoughts were minimalism in design and concept of

calmness of Japanese Gardens. The design offers a contrast

and tension between the nature (the bonsai trees) and the

artificial (whiteness of the surrounding).

There are three different concepts which are following the

same idea. Based on those, the fourth concept was developed

and built.

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02 DESIGN/The Barn House /18/42

BARN HOUSE the winning design at the competition

THE NEXT GENERATION SUSTAINABLE HOUSE in Taiki-cho, Hokkaido organised by TOSTEM the project has received a TOSTEM award, which includes design development and construction

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M e m u Meadows-Taiki-cho HokkaidoCompetition design team: Millica Muminović, Komatsu Katsuhito, Hashida

Wataru, Shinohara Masato, Kato Yoshiaki, Sasamura Yoshihiro Design

development team: Komatsu Katsuhito, Hashida Wataru, Shinohara Masato,

Kobayashi Kosuke, Sasamura Yoshihiro, Kanemaru Mayumi in collaboration

with KKAA Takumi Saikawa and LIXIL technical support

Jury: Kengo Kuma Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, The

University of Tokyo; Tomonari Yashiro Deputy Director and Professor at

the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo; Momoyo Kaijima

Associate Professor, University of Tsukuba.

Location: Memu Meadows, Taiki-cho, Hokkaido, Japan

Total floor area: 50 m2

The project was built in November 2012

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The Barn House project aimes to stress issues of sustainability stating that:

1.in 21st century we should not speak about sustainable architecture any more. We have to make it clear: there are only environmentally and culturally responsible architecture, and practice which continues to treat our environment irresponsibly.

2. we act by challenging established, unsustainable practices, by thinking and working in the ways which are radically different from the business as usual, from those practices which - we all know - are causing dramatic environmental and cultural degradation.

3. that approach we call radical realism, and it is manifested in thinking, making and living architecture. Such approach is realistic because it is radically different from those damaging practices.

-in terms of thinking, the radical difference comes from reaffirmation of place in its totality, by consciously and forcefully re-connecting the natural and human components of our milieu.

- in terms of architecture, critical differentiation comes from bringing back together the artificially separated knowledge and processes of design, construction and use, resulting in holistic approach to architecture, and

- in terms of lives, that means reducing to an absolute minimum the separation between the natural and human at all scales

– from the broadest scale of society, to the level of each single person.

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1the place remembers horse

2

3

life with nature…

cycles…

4life- and seasonal cycles/charcoal

Within the BARN HOUSE the concept of “Life with nature” was radicalized by reaching beyond obvious practice (eg. passive solar design and life with climate) which we have to take for granted, and by proposing lifestyle which overlaps with that of animals. The emblematic animal of Taiki-cho is a horse. Taiki-cho remembers horses, the sensibility and the glory associated with breeding and horse-racing.

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Radically redefined relationship with nature and an integration of architecture into the eco-seasonal cycles add the key quality of the BARN HOUSE – aware and active inhabitants.

The Barn House wants to capture and extend those memories, to redefine them into the present day. By doing that, it denies what we are often told and we claim the horses are not dirty, that nature is never dirty. We are nature and, in this project, horses relate directly to our own humanness. In the BARN HOUSE, the connection between the horses and human residents, the proximity of the radical other, creates a life-style which educates, by reminding us of interdependence and importance of the Other.

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summer

spring/autumn

winter

The spaces of the house are assembled in order to create multiple connections between human, horse and nature. That specific experience is achieved by merging the volumes of human and horse life-spaces. Two volumes are tided as complementary creating the sustainable house as a whole. That sustainability emerges only in the moment when all those spaces are merged to become a house. Human space is separated on day and night zone. Heating system of the house is based on usage of sun, compost, horse temperature and cooking. The whole heating system is positioned on the ground level. Hot air then gradually radiates on the second floor of night zone.

In summer, the horses of the BARN HOUSE will be roam the meadows, adding again their grace to the overall aesthetic appeal of Taiki-cho. But, their presence is not only symbolic. In pragmatic terms, the horses will give essential contribution to sustaining human lives in the house. During the long winters of Hokkaido, they will be inside the house, adding to the energy balance. The manure will used for composting, and contribute to heating of the spaces for human use, for nurturing plants and creating one of the eco-cycles that define this house. The material which distinguishes the BARN HOUSE is charcoal. Made of sawdust, the byproduct of local sawing process, in which 8% of wood tends to be discarded as sawdust, the charcoal is integrated in the food production cycle. Absorbing ammoniac from horses’ urine, it gets enriched, thus becoming a potent fertilizer. When the smell is fully absorbed, the charcoal will be exposed at the façades and ventilated, later to be further used for heating, paving and melting the snow.

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M4 / Dwelling in the area of important historical value

Smiljaniceva Street, East Vracar, Belgrade,Serbia, 2006.

Author: Milica Muminovic

The buildings, in dominantly residential area of Smiljaniceva

Street are preserved. The purpose of this design project was

to seek for the ways in which the existing house stock can be

preserved and in the same time give an opportunity for growth

and thus answering the contemporary dwelling requirements.

The main conceptual idea was to preserve the part of

the building which is orientated towards the street and

designing the new building at the inner part of the plot. This

approach provides the opportunity for the preservation of

visual qualities of the street and in the same time allows

for the higher density. The project proposes change of the

materialization of the roof of old building due to the fact that

roof is not visible from the street. The project also proposes

change of the colour of the facade of the old building which

will match with the colour scheme of the new building. This

indicates the change. The experience of old and new changes

by moving from public space of the street to private space of

the residence. Namely, from the street dominant experience is

related with the old. By entering into the semi-private space of

the plot the experience changes with mixture of old and new.

And from the each designed apartment the experience is only

related with the new (looking at the roof of the old building).

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M5/m:cu_x Mediateka/Centre for Study/Programme change

Settlement Sumice, Belgrade, Serbia, 2007.

Author: Milica Muminovic

The Sumice Settlement offers a unique and special context.

It consists of very strong natural as well as urban areas. The

very name of the settlement comes from the word ‘sumice’

meaning small forests. The proposed building is located in the

forest and aims to create the unity between the nature and

architecture as well as through experience. Walking through

the building, creating a particular promenade and experience

defines active unity between people, architecture and the

natural surroundings. The building comprises four pavilions

which are connected through paths in the forest. The four

fragments of the building represent the peaks of intensity

and have different functions: library, video, audio and photo

teka. Thus, the building aims to be centre for studies in all the

pavilions which are related to four different media, but in the

same time proposes learning through experience of forest,

uniting the human and natural.

The modelling concept is based on the spider net, which was

used as the principle of forming the building as a net that will

have minimal impact at the forest and become its natural

part. The pavilions are partly located under the ground in

order to minimize the visual impact. The first opening pavilion

represents the connection between the natural and urban

context. The other three pavilions are located inside the forest.

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deconstruction

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M6 / CTRL+ARCH+DEL

Belgrade Fortress, Belgrade, Serbia, 2007.

Author: Milica Muminovic

Belgrade Fortress is the heart and the place of birth of the city

of Belgrade. The main characteristic of this place is that it has

been changing through all the periods of the city. Today it is a

park which preserves the remains of the fortress.

The conceptual idea of this project was to rethink this space

in terms of offering possibilities for development of various

functions, bringing back the city to the water and the park. The

aim was to redefine and straighten already existing sense of

the place based on the both tangible and intangible layers of

history. In order to achieve these aims the proposed building

is dominantly located underground, which on the one hand

reveals the layers of history and on the other, creates new

layer which connects ground and underground.

The form of the building is informed by already existing form

of the fortress from the Middle Ages. Although following the

geometry of the fortress design, the proposed building uses

contemporary materials and brings new spaces for various

activities. The new building is in contrast with the nature and

already existing remains from the past, thus is understood as

the layer of contemporary moment and needs.

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M9 / Museum of Archaeology- Graduation ProjectPantelleria, Italy, 2008.

Author: Milica Muminovic

Pantelleria is a small island on the south of Italy. The aim of

the project was to design a building which will trigger and

help the revitalisation of the island. The project tended to

overcome the usual design practices in similar situations

around the world of using Big names and buildings which

become icons of the cities but bring many negative effects for

the local community.

The project was divided in three phases: first phase was

based on the research on the principles of innovative design

and realizing the negative influences for local communities

using the existing examples; the second phase was to

understand the vernacular architecture of the island and the

third phase was to select the location and design the new

building.

The main characteristics of the indigenous architecture of the

island “dammuso house” are: simple geometric form, rare

and small windows-design with the climate, complex system

of expanding the house and use of local volcanic material. The

design of the Archaeological Museum is inspired by these four

principles. Simple in geometry, elementary pavilions are used

as main architectural compositional element. The building

creates fluidity between public and private spaces.

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Pantelleria,I t a l y

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traditional assembling

defining the module

creating the relationships

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03 RESEARCH/A Week of Dérive-Mapping the Moment of Intensity

15th Century 1675 18311985

THE RESILIENCE -Lives In The Palace The work is produced dur ing and af ter the architectural and urban design workshop ‘density intensity resilience-the split case’ September 2011

Authors: Milica Muminović with Wataru Hashida and Rafael Balboa

organization and participants: Keio University, Laboratory Radovic,

Tokyo, Japan:teachers: professor Darko Radovic (KEIO), professor Davisi

Boontharm (NUS, visiting prof. at KEIO) + 10 students; University of Tokyo,

Laboratory Kuma, Tokyo, Japan:teachers: professor Kengo Kuma (TODAI),

assistant Ko Nakamura (TODAI) + 7 students; University of Split, Faculty

of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy, Split, Croatia teachers:

professor Dario Gabric (FGAG), senior assistant Ana Grgic (FGAG), assistant

Hrvoje Bartulovic (FGAG) + 7 students

Part of this work was published in book: D. Radovic, et al. (eds.), The Split

Case: Density, Intensity, Resilience (Tokyo: Flick Studio), 2012, 84-91.

If it could be claimed for any city to have actually grown out of a single building, it is undoubtedly the city of Split. At the turn of the 3rd century A.D. the Roman Emperor Diocletian has decreed an imperial palace as his life-long residence at the place where the present historical city center of the Split is situated. The Palace was built as a luxurious rectangular residence lying on the sea-shore. Its inner space was divided in four rectangular segments by two principal communication axes: cardo and decumanus. In the first half of the 7th century the Palace started its transformations into city of Split. The late antique-style of the palace has started to adapt into medieval city. In 1979 Diocletian’s Palace, along with the city center of the Split was included in the UNESCO list of world cultural heritage.

After more than 1700 years of continuity the historical core of the City of Split is still living a very intense life. It emerges from the complex interactions between past and future actors and invites multiple approaches to sustainable urban future.

The Palace is a physical framework of everyday lives and activities of its inhabitants and residents of the broader urban area of Split. The juxtaposition of the banality of mass tourism and rich practices of local urban life shows that what is truly extraordinary here is not the consumerist Spectacle, nor even the evident glamour of the complex, layered architecture-but the rhythms and routines of everyday life. The life itself; a particular urbanity; as resilient as the stones of the city.

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I am more than what the thin present defines…

(Tuan, 1977:186)

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This driving and momentous interrogation emerged soon from our first fieldwork. To address this issue, we focused on the spaces within the palace that are both dominantly residential and publically accessible, in search for analysis and possible interventions. Doing so we naturally exerted ourselves to view the city from the aspects of locals, those dwelling within the palace. Strangers to the city as we are, we operated this switch of position to respond to a felt need of dialectisation; Split lives with, and from the tourists, but Split exists in the LIVEs of its inhabitants. If this dialectical couple naturally means that the quality of the tourists’ experiences also matters, we honestly committed ourselves for the LIVEs of locals.

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Our focus is on spaces of low general intensity but a specific kind of high emotional intensity. Therefore, those are the spaces which become places. Some would be realms of resilience where locals try to keep their LIVEs intimate and comfortable.

the relationship between common paths and residential areas

The results of the questionnaire —

opinions of the random passerby

The results of the questionnaire —

opinions of graduate students of

architecture

Map of selected residential areas

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Our first fieldwork focused on the sound in the city. Why the sound? Because people may stand in a residential space without making noise, and thus showing their recognition to the privacy of the place. The survey of noise enabled us to map our spaces of interest. Through our subjective interpretation of the sound we draw soundscape maps, in which various patterns emerged. These various soundscape maps were defined through long historical development of the city as well as the daily rhythms. This pushed us to search for both physical characteristics of those spaces and stories from locals, a ‘software’ oriented approach.

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Design Aims:

To allow the conditions for increasing the residential areas and gradually to expand the number of residencesTo soften the boundary between local and outsiders through architectural interventionsTo highlight the lives of local peopleThe interventions are ephemeral and discreetThe interventions should create a feeling in people of transitions between different levels of outsidness/insidness The design uses sustainable approach of introducing greenery in the city, which brings other ways of lives, creating ecosystems. Greenery and animals are strongly connected to the domestic and intimate and are strong indicators of change of the intensity in the cityTo allow slow change towards more sustainable future of the core of city of Split: Diocltian Palace

The second step in our approach was to analyze t h e m o r p h o l o g i c a l characteristics of the places we found to successfully lower the vo ices of the outsiders. Furthermore, those characteristics were divided into: architectural and ephemeral physical elements, such as: greenery, gates, tunnels, openings, and fences. Those were found to have an effect on lowering the voices of outsiders and therefore enhancing the lives of the insiders.

I n s p i r e d b y t h e s e mechanisms we propose interventions in the palace.

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T o k y o D é r i v e

Kita Senju

Ueno-Okachimachi

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Oshiage|HikifuneTokyo Dérive DENSITY, INTENSITY, PUBLIC-PRIVATE INTERFACESecond Measuring the non-Measurable Symposium, which is organized and hosted, by IKI - International Keio Institute for Architecture and Urbanism in Tokyo 22-26 November 2012.

Author: Milica Muminović

The symposium aimed to search for the hypotheses, methodological

considerations and concrete proposals how to seek, identify and capture

those aspects of urban quality which seem to be difficult, if not impossible

to represent, visualize and/or measure. The method combines and aims

to explore in 1:1 scale examples from the host city of Tokyo. That demands

both the open-minded participants and an open form of gathering. Mn’M

02 combines elements of fieldwork, workshop and various symposium

practices, which are going to help reach next level of collaboration and

make some valuable joint findings possible.

Part of this work was published in book: D. Radovic,(ed.), TMn’M Workbook

2 Tokyo Dérive In Search Of Urban Intensities (Tokyo: Flick Studio), 2013,

26-31.

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This study was produced based on three days derives at three different locations, which were deliberately not chosen by the author. The first location was Kita Senju, at the northern area of Tokyo. The intensity was found, mapped and presented at the tension between residential (semi-private) and commercial (public) areas. Furthermore, the intensity could be found at the scale of the city, at the scale of each house and my own body. The notes from the dérive: we have arrived at the station of Kita Senju. It was crowed. Immediately after exiting the station we were at the elevated public space. We started walking, by following the people. Finding ourselves at very narrow residential street. The house entrances were facing the street directly. All of the sudden, we were at the busy shotengai (shopping street). We started strolling around the neighborhood. Just by entering any of the streets behind the shotengai, we were finding ourselves at the streets which were feeling very private. Many times we were wondering if we were in private land. In those streets I felt uncomfortable, almost as entering somebody’s house without invitation. I could hear people inside. Somebody playing an old traditional Japanese instrument. The pavement changed and I started making noise. I shouldn’t be here. The interface between the public and private was changing from the house to my own body. That created very strong emotional experience. Intensity in this place was in my experience.

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