Seasonal abandonment of imaginary worlds /
A collection of fading, temporarily abandoned, Japanese playgrounds shot during the winter snow season. The playscapes have a longer life cycle than those of the west and exhibit no signs of damage or graffiti. Carine Thévenau explores Japanese philosophies towards sonkei (respect) and mottainai (wa...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Sydney] :
Éditions Edizioni,
2018.
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| Summary: | A collection of fading, temporarily abandoned, Japanese playgrounds shot during the winter snow season. The playscapes have a longer life cycle than those of the west and exhibit no signs of damage or graffiti. Carine Thévenau explores Japanese philosophies towards sonkei (respect) and mottainai (wastefulness). She acknowledges the playgrounds as the residue of an aging population and the rising satori sedai (enlightened generation) who value vintage over new designer goods. She equates the playgrounds as an origami-like structure of spacetime, folding, unfolding and refolding. |
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| Item Description: | Colophon title. |
| Physical Description: | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780646982526 0646982524 |