Team
Project Supervisor
Prof. Dr. Evelyn Schulz
Professor of Japanese Studies
Japan Centre, LMU München
Urban and architectural discourses on modern and contemporary Japan, also from a comparative perspective; the focus of my research interests is the question of the reception of urban discourses and their implementation in Tokyo as well as the question of how urban spatial structures and specific places are transferred. My particular interest lies in the different requirements of modernity associated with respective spaces and places. The negotiation processes informing what "good living" could be with regard to the respective places provide ethically supported arguments, which can be inserted into today's global discourse on sustainability and revitalization of local economies/cultures and deceleration.
Project Manager
Since beginning Japanese Studies, I have been analysing the upheaval in Japanese society. In the course of reconstruction of the Tohoku region after the earthquake of 11/03/2011 (I was there when it happened), city planning and the initiatives of stakeholder groups to organize themselves really came to my attention. During the writing of my Master's thesis, in which I examined selected aspects of reconstruction in Tohoku, discourses on sustainability and slow-city ideas became increasingly important. This project gives me the opportunity to follow the developments of these discourses and to transfer them to the metropolitan area of Tokyo. My Japanese language skills and my next professional training in the field of sociology allow me to question relevant actor groups on an empirical basis both quantitatively and qualitatively.
Collaborators
Haruhiko Goto, Professor Haruhiko Goto, Urban and Rural Landscape Planning and Design, Waseda University, Tokyo
Stephanie Assmann, Dr., Professor, Hokkaido University Sapporo, Japan
Kobayashi Mari, Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo
German Institute of Japanese Studies, Tokyo
Susanne Klien, Dr., Professor, Hokkaido University, Sapporo