Project Description

Tokyo Poplab

LOCATION: Tokyo, Japan
YEAR: 2016
STATUS: Competition

The concept of the project is about the relation between tradition, pop art and innovation. Tradition is an old, huge net formed by lines of every aspect of life: religion, food, clothes, painting, poetry, etc., every aspects joint each other in precise points. Tradition, also, has rules. The geometric form of the square(s), or net, graphically well shows this system of knowledges, that is reflected also in the japanese system of writing: the rice paddy 田 (ta), is the space that humans build, and rule, opposite to the chaos of the nature, reflected in the mountain/forest, 山 (yama). But times to times, innovation regenerates and changes the old system of rules and knowledges. Thegraphic representation is the circle, an old symbol of eternity, in this project it springs off from a line, and touches, in very different ways the other lines of the tradition. It touches and changes, but, as everything, itself will be part of the tradition and it come back to its point of spring off. From then, the line goes on again straight, until the next circle, the next change. Pop art is not tradition, it is not innovation: it is the dynamic force that let the innovation spring off, it is in the irregular intersections, and it is also the force that lets the tradition absorb the innovation.