日本大阪城市边缘处的艺术与生态

Art and Ecology at the Edge of Osaka, Japan

城市自然工作室坐落于日本大阪市郊区的北加贺屋街区(原造船厂所在地),致力于探索生态艺术与传播。工作室与来自不同学科、领域、国家和地区的从业人员及公私营组织合作,开展了多项生态艺术项目,借此重建人、过程、场所与人类赖以生存的生态系统之间的联系。本文呈现了在北加贺屋开展的两个项目研究。在大阪分部项目中,工作室利用从当地回收的物料,对一处拥有80年历史的老旧市场中的典型土木结构排屋进行了改造,改造后的实体生态空间包括一处自然花园和一系列众筹项目,兼具居住和生态艺术功能。另一个项目城市自然节是在当地多个公共或私有空间中举行的一项生态艺术表演活动,旨在通过不同从业人员、公众及城市空间本身之间的艺术对话,探索城市与自然的关系。借由上述项目,工作室期望进一步探寻能够培养设计师、管理者、市政领导、市民,以及城市内外生态系统各群体之间独特而意义非凡关系的方法。通过持续、真诚地与环境对话,人们或许能够发现一种众生平等下的新城市形态。

City as Nature is an ecological art and media studio based primarily in Kitakagaya,a former shipbuilding district on the outskirts of Osaka,Japan.Working with local and international practitioners,and public and private organizations across multiple disciplines and sectors,they produce ecological art projects that re-connect people,process,and place with the ecosystems in which we dwell.Two narrative project studies in Kitakagaya are presented here:1)The Branch Osaka,a physical ecological space built inside a typical wood-and-earth row house in an 80-year-old marketplace—rebuilt by City as Nature,using locally recycled materials,it now serves as a residence and ecological art space,with a natural garden and donation-based programming;2)City as Nature Festival,an ecological neighborhood"happening,"taking place in multiple local public and privately-owned spaces.The festival explores urban relationships with the nature through art-driven dialogs between practitioners,the general public,and the urban space itself.From these projects,City as Nature hopes to explore approaches to cultivating relationships—individual,meaningful relationships between designers,executives,civic leaders,citizens,and the communities of ecosystems in and around our cities.Through an ongoing,truthful dialog with the environment,people might just discover the possible city,an equitable place for all beings.