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Keigo yamamoto
Lives and works in Fukui city, Japan
http://www.k--bit.net
Renga linked Picture Communication 21st century. In other words, a one-way flow of
Urban Energies and Rural Energies energies alone cannot expect to create something
unique or attractive. Indeed, at this rate, cities in
while culture has been headed for urbanization, the world might be standardized and turn out to be
the advances in computer technology have made unattractive places. what we need for the cities
the world smaller, and changed our concept of time in the 21st century is intentionally to utilize more
and space. The Internet, in particular, has enabled of nature. we will have to explore a new type of
us to communicate with any remote site without culture by mingling “Urban Energies” and “Rural
any time lag, and to introduce telecommuting Energies”, and harmonizing them. viewed in this
systems into companies as a new working style. This light, Japanese gardens made during the Muromachi
progress in electronic information systems can be period (1392-1573) could be a good model. I believe
a piece of evidence that the one-way approach of the philosophy and thoughts behind these gardens
urbanization is not enough to survive the upcoming could give us a clue to help survive the 21st century.
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