a-small-lab by Chris Berthelsen. Focusing on research and practice in creativity. Based in Tokyo
email: chris@a-small-lab.com
twitter: @a_small_lab

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Kokonohanashi (「ここの話」 lit. 'talking about here'):

"....an amazing, low tech and also analog project that creates community dialogue about public, publicly visible, and abandoned urban spaces."
(Jared Braiterman, Harvard and Stanford anthropologist and Japan Council on Foreign Relations Hitachi Fellow - [link] )

The kokonohanashi (ここの話 lit. 'talking about here') project works in local settings with a combination of analogue (notebooks, pens, laminated A4 posters, wire, legwork) and open low-tech tools (QR codes, stripped down Wordpress, email, smart-and-not-so-smart-phones) to investigate the development of a platform for discussion about, and positive action in, city space by the people who most matter - those who experience and use the place in their everyday lives.

Download the project introduction: [PDF file, 5.5mb]
Download a brief project report after the first iteration: [PDF file, 3mb]
Read a nice write up of the project at Tokyo Green Space [HERE]