Architecture.Energy.Japan.2012
Workshop
Locations: Wurster Hall, Various
Dates: August 5–10, 2012
Sponsors: Center for Japanese Studies, Department of Architecture
New conversations between practicing architects, engineers, construction firms, educators and researchers will explore design and simulation, regulation and policy, sustainable certification and utility and government programs as strategies for achieving a wiser use of energy resources without compromise of comfort or aesthetics.
MONDAY (8/6)
REGISTRATION OPENS ($40)
9:30 / Wurster Hall
OPENING / INTRODUCTION
10-12 / Wurster Hall, Rm. 305
PROF. DANA BUNTROCK
PROF. TOM BURESH
DR. MASAYUKI MAE
PANEL SESSION: LEED + CASBEE
1-2:45 / Wurster Hall, Rm. 106
ROB KNAPP. "COMPARING LEED + CASBEE."
There are a number of assessment systems for encouraging energy efficiency in buildings. LEED, which originated in the US, is often employed abroad as well; CASBEE is a younger system developed in Japan. What are the differences between these systems, and how can they be useful to designers?
Respondents:
DAVID GILL (Mark Horton / Architecture)
BALÁZS BOGNÁR (Kengo Kuma and Associates)
WORKSHOP, 1: SOFTWARE USED IN ENERGY CONSERVATION IN THE U.S.
2:45-7 / Wurster Hall, Rm. 106
SUSAN UBBELOHDE
GEORGE LOISOS
TUESDAY (8/7)
ADVISING JAPANESE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ON SUSTAINABILITY AND PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATION
9-12 / Wurster Hall
Introductory outline in room 104, from 9-9:20
From July 23-August 10, over 300 high school students from the areas of Japan impacted by last year's earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown are coming to Berkeley for 3 weeks to study sustainable approaches to energy, community planning, and architecture. The Tomodachi Summer 2012 Softbank Leadership Program is generously funded by Masayoshi SON (UCB '80) and will be meeting in Wurster Hall concurrent with our event. Student groups will present design proposals on August 8; our group has agreed to spend the morning of August 7 observing their practice presentations and offering advice.
We would encourage anyone involved in our event, whether as a speaker or participant, to share your expertise with these students.
PANEL SESSION: ENERGY + SIMULATION
1-2:45 / Wurster Hall, Rm. 101
DR. PHILIP HAVES
PANEL SESSION: PROJECTS USING SIMULATION SOFTWARE IN JAPAN
2:45-4:30 / Wurster Hall, Rm. 101
DR. MASAYUKI ICHINOSE
JUN NAKAGAWA
WORKSHOP: SOFTWARE USED IN ENERGY CONSERVATION IN JAPAN
5-7 / Wurster Hall, Rm. 101
DR. KAORU IKEJIMA
DR. MASAYUKI MAE
WEDNESDAY (8/8)
PANEL: PROFESSIONAL INCENTIVES
9-12 / Wurster Hall, Rm. 305
PETER TURNBULL
HENRY SIEGEL
SCOTT SHELL
CARRIE MEINBURG BURKE
PANEL SESSION: SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE IN JAPAN
1-2:45 / Wurster Hall, Rm. 106
PROF. KAZUHIKO NAMBA
PROF. KAZUHIRO KOJIMA
TOMOHIKO YAMANASHI
PANEL SESSION: SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE IN THE U.S.
2:45-4:30 / Wurster Hall, Rm. 106
NEAL SCHWARTZ
MARSHA MAYTUM
ZOE PRILLINGER + LUKE OGRYDZIAK
WORKSHOP: ADDRESSING ENERGY IN OUR ARCHITECTURE
5-7 / Wurster Hall, Rm. 106
Works under development by young Japanese and US designers will be presented for discussion by participants, with a focus on sharing strategies for energy conservation.
THURSDAY (8/9)
CONVERSATION
9-12 / Wurster Hall, Room 305
ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION (OPTIONAL)
DR. GAIL BRAGER
PROF. KAZUHIKO NAMBA
PROF. KAZUHIRO KOJIMA
What do students need to know to prepare them for a sustainable approach to professional practice? Join others to discuss key issues and how they can be incorporated into architectural education.
PANEL SESSION: CALIFORNIA ENERGY POLICY
1-2:45 / Wurster Hall, Room 101
DR. STEPHEN SELKOWITZ
DR. CARL BLUMSTEIN
DR. KARL BROWN
PANEL SESSION: JAPANESE ENERGY POLICY
2:45-4:30 / Wurster Hall, Room 101
DR. TAKASHI INOUE
DR. TAKASHI AKIMOTO
DR. MASAYUKI MAE
KEYNOTE LECTURE
5-7 (doors open at 4:30) / Wurster Hall, Room 112
DR. ANDREW DEWIT: "JAPAN: ANOTHER LOST DECADE?"
Dr. Dewit will outline the political economy of Japan's power policy in mid-2012. The Noda coalition, backed by the Ministry of Finance and large banks, is inclined to return to the earlier status quo, which remains key to the business models of many extant utilities. However, smaller local governments and innovative capital are strongly incentivized in opposition. Further, Japan's Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry is increasingly aware of a competing economic revolution based on biotech, information technology, and renewable energy. By biasing to established interests, Dr. DeWit fears Japan could forfeit its future.
"Japan: Another Lost Decade?": Architecture.Energy.2012
Speaker: Dr. Andrew Dewit, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan
Lecture
Location: 112 Wurster Hall
Date: August 9, 2012, 5-6 p.m.
Sponsors: Center for Japanese Studies, Department of Architecture
Dr. Andrew Dewit will outline the political economy of Japan's power policy in mid-2012. The Noda regime, backed by the Ministry of Finance and large banks, is attempting to return to the earlier status quo, which remains key to the business models of many extant utilities. However, smaller local governments and innovative capital are strongly incentivized in opposition and Japan's Ministry of Economy Trade + Industry is increasingly aware of a competing economic revolution based on biotech, information technology, and renewable energy. In coddling vested interests, Japan could forfeit its future.
Hiroshima Maidens and Lucky Dragons: Shaping Japan's Postwar Nuclear World
Speaker: Elyssa Faison, History, University of Oklahoma
Moderator: Junko Habu, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Lecture
Date: September 11, 2012, 4 p.m.
Location: Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)
Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Japanese Studies
In 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower made his famous "Atoms for Peace" speech. In 1954 the U.S. conducted the atmospheric nuclear test code named "Castle Bravo" at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, inadvertently contaminating a nearby Japanese fishing trawler. Only three days later, the Japanese Diet approved its first budget for the development of nuclear power. Finally, in 1955 a group of twenty-five young female atomic bomb victims arrived at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital for a series of reconstructive surgeries. This paper will demonstrate how these transpacific events were part of a crucial moment in the development of two imbricated discourses, a scientific discourse and a discourse on peace and Japan's unique role in promoting it, and analyze how the masculinization of the discourse of "science" (in its nationalist frame) was closely tied to the feminization of narratives of "peace."
Archaeological Reconstructions of Jomon Period Dwellings in Japan
Speaker: John Ertl, Associate Professor, Kanazawa University; Visiting Scholar, Center for Japanese Studies
Colloquium
Date: September 14, 2012, 4 p.m.
Location: Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor), IEAS Conference Room
Sponsor: Center for Japanese Studies
This talk examines the practice of prehistoric architectural reconstruction in Japan. The pit house has become one of the most emblematic features of Jomon culture — perhaps second to cord-marked pottery — and hundreds of examples may be found at historical parks throughout the country. As such, these buildings are an essential aspect of the contemporary image of the Jomon period, but one that is only partially informed by the archaeological record. These reconstructions are considered archaeological interpretations, in that any one site or feature provides only limited information on the original shape, materials, and construction techniques. Evidence is thus drawn from a number of sources involving collaboration amongst specialists from fields including architecture, history, ethnology, engineering, and natural sciences. This talk centers on reconstructions at Goshono, a middle-Jomon period site unique for the discovery of burnt remains in 1997 that provided the first evidence of dirt-covered roofs on Jomon pit houses. The research and activities at Goshono are framed in this talk as representative of an increasing "diversity" of contexts in which archaeological knowledge is produced. Specifically, "diversity" is used to reference a broadening of interpretative strategies, the multiplicity of collaborators and audiences, and a sharp increase in the amount and types of data used in analyses.
John Ertl (PhD Cultural Anthropology, UCB) is an associate professor at Kanazawa University, Japan. He is a visiting scholar at the Center for Japanese Studies as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellow. For the past year he has been conducting ethnographic research on the "production of archaeological knowledge" at the department of anthropology East Asian Archaeology Laboratory.
The Afterlife of a Material Object: The Mysterious Gold Seal of 57 C.E.
Speaker: Joshua A Fogel, Professor, Department of History, York University
Colloquium
Date: October 12, 2012, 4 p.m.
Location: IEAS conference room, 2223 Fulton Street, Berkeley, CA 94704
Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Center for Japanese Studies (CJS), Center for Chinese Studies
According to the Later Han History, in the year 57 the emperor presented an emissary from what is now Japan with a gold seal and accompanying cord. The seal promptly disappeared from history until 1784 when a farmer in Kyushu discovered it while repairing an irrigation ditch in his rice paddy. Since then over 350 books and articles have been written about the seal (roughly one inch square at the base). The historiography can be broken down into four waves represented by distinctive attributes, including the view that the seal is entirely bogus. The gold seal is the first material object to pass between representative governments of "China" and "Japan," and the first instances of Chinese characters making their way to the archipelago from the mainland. It now rests in permanent display in the Fukuoka City Museum.
Prisoners' Rights in Japan: A Tale of Two Detention Bills
Speaker: Silvia Croydon, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University
Colloquium
Date: October 16, 2012, 4:30 p.m.
Location: IEAS conference room, 2223 Fulton Street, Berkeley, CA 94704
Sponsor: Center for Japanese Studies
Japan's prison system is one of the most orderly in the world. Within it, incidents of homicide or serious injury to prison staff and inmates rarely happen. In each of the years from 1998 to 2005, for example, there were no more than two reported assaults on prison staff and 15 inmate-on-inmate attacks across the entire network of Japanese prisons, which consists of an inmate population of approximately 60,000-70,000. Maintaining such an environment is something that the Japanese Ministry of Justice is extremely proud about. Some have suggested, however, that this order and safety comes at the price of violating the inmates' basic rights. With a view to making the debate on Japan's prison policies more informed, this talk will offer an empirical examination of the processes through which the concerns for safety and security in Japan are balanced against efforts to protect the rights of inmates.
Silvia Croydon is a Fellow at the Hakubi Centre for Advanced Research and an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Law at Kyōto University, where she is examining the prospects for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions to fill the existing gap in Asia with regards to a regional human rights mechanism. Prior to this, she undertook a two-year Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Post-doctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Tōkyō's Graduate School of Law and Politics, during which she studied the introduction of the quasi-jury system (saiban'in seido) in Japan as well as similar policy moves in other East Asian countries. Silvia's doctorate, obtained in 2010 from the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford, dealt with Japan's criminal justice system.
Haiku for China? Zhou Zuoren's Interest in Modern Japanese Poetry
Speaker: Frederik Green, San Francisco State University
Lecture
Date: November 9, 2012, 12-1 p.m.
Location: EALC Library, 287 Dwinelle Hall
Sponsors: Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies
This talk will explore the influence modern Japanese poetry exerted on Zhou Zuoren, one of the most significant Chinese writers, critics, and translators of the first part of the twentieth century, as well as its impact on modern Chinese culture as mediated through Zhou. By analyzing Zhou's translation activities, his critical essays on modern Japanese poesy, and his own Japanese-language verse, this talk seeks to comment on the importance of Japan's modern poetry on the development of certain aspects central to Chinese modernity, namely vernacularization and the making of a new Chinese poetic voice. Focusing mainly on two distinct genres, Japanese free verse poetry and the Japanese short lyric, haiku and tanka in particular, this talk explores the liberating effects translation and linguistic migration had on Zhou and comments on the degree to which Zhou understood modern Japanese poetry to be conducive to modern poetic sensibilities.
Women's Activism and Post-3.11 Japan
Panelists:
• Yasuo Goto, Fukushima University
• Nobuyo Goto, Fukushima Medical University
• Hiroko Aihara, Freelance Journalist, Fukushima
• Ayumi Kinezuka, Shizuoka Family Farmers Movement
• Hisae Ogawa, Codepink Osaka
Date: November 13, 2012, 4 p.m.
Location: IEAS conference room, 2223 Fulton Street, Berkeley, CA 94704
Sponsor: Center for Japanese Studies
Keynote Presentation
Women and Youth Leading the Grassroots Movements in Post-3.11 Japan
Yasuo Goto, Fukushima University
Nobuyo Goto, Fukushima Medical University
Post-3.11, many activist movements emerged from numerous corners of Japan. Some describe this as the beginning of a new type of civil movement and democracy, as many of the activists are youths and women, widely utilizing the internet to promote their cause. However, large media outlets have not captured their efforts for the world to see; therefore, this talk will address the women involved in these "untold reform movements" among Japanese society.
Fall of Mainstream Media and Rise of Citizen Centered Independent Media
Hiroko Aihara, Freelance Journalist, Fukushima
Fight Against Radiation Contamination as a Family Farmer in Solidarity with Consumers
Ayumi Kinezuka, Shizuoka Family Farmers Movement
Grassroots Women's Actions for Peace and a Nuclear Free World
Hisae Ogawa, Codepink Osaka
Constructing "Home" in Transnational Spaces: The Case of Japanese-Pakistani Muslim Families
Speaker: Masako Kudo, Associate Professor, Cultural Anthropology, Kyoto Women's University
Colloquium
Date: November 16, 2012, 4 p.m.
Location: 554 Barrows Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
Sponsors: Center for Japanese Studies, Center for South Asia Studies
This presentation explores the ways in which the lives of Japanese-Pakistani Muslim families expand across national boundaries as their life-cycles evolve. This type of family increased in number following the influx of Pakistani labor migrants to Japan in the late 1980s. Upon marriage to Pakistani men, the vast majority of the Japanese spouses converted to Islam, and consequently, religion became one of the main factors that affected the process of family making.
Besides examining the changes that took place after marriage, this presentation will also focus on the recent tendency for these mixed households to cross national boundaries as the offspring grow up, namely, the pattern where the Japanese wives and the children relocate to Pakistan or to a third country, leaving their migrant husbands behind in Japan. What are the motives behind this transnational dispersal of the family, and how is such a move made possible? Furthermore, what are the limitations and possibilities involved in the transnational practices? By using longitudinal data obtained through in-depth interviews with a number of Japanese spouses, this presentation aims to illustrate the complex dynamics involved in family making in this type of newly emerging cross-border marriage in contemporary Japan.
Masako Kudo is associate professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kyoto Women's University. She obtained her B.A. degree from Sophia University, M.Sc. degree from the University of Edinburgh, and M.A. and Ph.D degrees from the University of Tokyo. Her major publications include Ekkyo no Jinruigaku: Zainichi Pakisutan-jin Musulimu Imin no Tsuma-tachi (An Anthropology of Border-Crossing in Japan: Japanese Wives of Pakistan Muslim Migrants) (in Japanese), 2008, University of Tokyo Press; "Becoming the Other in One's Own Homeland?: The Processes of Self-construction among Japanese Muslim Women," Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology, Vol 8 (2008); and "Pakistani Husbands, Japanese Wives: A New Presence in Tokyo and Beyond," Asian Anthropology, Vol.8 (2009). She has conducted research among Japanese women married to Pakistani Muslim migrants in Japan and abroad. More recently, her research extended to the UK where she has studied the changing socioeconomic status and identity issues of British women with Pakistani backgrounds.