Season’s Greetings for 2022 新年おめでとう御座います

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Multicolored rocks by the Atlantic Ocean in Marblehead, Massachusetts

Water ebbs and flows,

yet still finds a way forward.

2021 continued to reveal our vulnerabilities,

yet ongoing challenges revealed our strengths:

Strength together, as we move into a new year,

in hopes for a more resilient 2022!

In this past year, we participated in several events to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 3.11 triple disaster. We continue to remember our friends and collaborators in Tohoku. In the ongoing pandemic, inequities, and crises near and far, we will continue to foster the good we can accomplish when in community.

Happy new year from eTOPOS!

Image: By the Atlantic Ocean in Marblehead, Massachusetts / Photo by Shun Kanda

Season’s Greetings for 2019

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Photos and graphic by Shun Kanda

A belated happy new year, to a 2019 still full of potentials and possibilities.

Our travels have inspired us with the image above from Slot Canyon, part of the magnificent Escalante National Monument in Utah, USA.

… Shaped by Water / orange tinted sandstone smooth and curvaceous
rock walls carved by thousands of years of flash floods

… A landscape that recalls the Siq at Petra, Jordan.

Check back soon for updates on our recent activities, as we continue to seek, inspire, and create a sense of place in our surrounding communities.

MIT JDW 2016 / A Memorial Stage for All

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The MIT Japan Design Workshop 2016 with the University of Tokyo, Volunteers & Local Residents assisting in the Design/Build project – Memorial Stage for All / みんなの記憶の舞台 on the site of the 2013 Landslide Disaster on the volcanic island of Oshima,  125 kilometers from Tokyo. In three days under the blazing August sun, lava rocks were arranged, benches built, paths and places were designed for a garden honoring the Memory and Recovery for the island’s people.

 

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Hard work in the sun, moving lava rocks

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Damage from the landslide in 2013

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Bench lunch

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Constructing timber benches