A Japanese Neighborhood Where Time Stopped: Virtue in Slowness
Stories and images from Kitakagaya, an old Osaka neighborhood with little money, yet a wealth of strange, beautiful, and useful ways of approaching life, work, and cities.
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One Minute of Traditional Mochi Making
Part of a series of short meditative films, putting you in the midst of nature-connected cultures and places around the world.
Different Religions Join Hands // EiR Volume 1, Issue 8
Our bi-weekly Environment in Review (EiR) is loaded with inspirations and solutions for social and ecological well-being, ranging from national initiatives to community projects.
Farm Stories & Bicycle Traffic Jams // EiR Volume 1, Issue 7
Our bi-weekly Environment in Review (EiR) is loaded with inspirations and solutions for social and ecological well-being, ranging from national initiatives to community projects.
A Resilient Future & Building Cities With Nature // EiR Volume 1, Issue 6
Our bi-weekly Environment in Review (EiR) is loaded with inspirations and solutions for social and ecological well-being, ranging from national initiatives to community projects.
On Earth Day: Be a Rebel, Be Kind // EiR Volume 1, Issue 5
Our bi-weekly Environment in Review is loaded with inspirations and solutions for social and ecological well-being, ranging from national initiatives to community projects.
Building an Ecology of One
Our systems of production and consumption have become so far separated from ecological reality, that sustainability and human well being have both become impossibilities. What needs to change, and how do we re-write the rules to build a truly sustainable culture?
REALtimeFOOD (world’s slowest restaurant)
A temporary restaurant is the opening scene for a multiple-month community based arts and ecology project where we bring to life an empty plot of urban land and invite the community to cultivate food, relationships, and creativity.
Nature Mandala
A team building exercise where groups work together to build a giant mandala from locally-foraged natural materials, celebrating local nature, and building stronger relationships with the environment and each other.
Color Of Soil and Season
An art-making workshop where participants discover the importance of the billions of individual living beings in the soil as we slowly delicately, and mindfully explore the myriad colors and life to be found in soil, stone, and other local natural elements.
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[HUMAN:NATURE] Megijima
How do we revitalize dwindling communities? First, we learn about what they are and why they are important. This was a two-month community-based project that fused old-fashioned community interactions with web-based interactive media, allowing islanders and visitors to explore the hidden links between people, culture, and ecology on a small island in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea.
Art Brings Community Closer in San Jose’s Japantown
Sociecity visits one of three remaining Japantowns (Nihonmachi / 日本町) in the United States and talks with graphic artist Tamiko Rast about a public art project which has both ignited a flurry of local artistic work, and brought a community closer together.