Repository of the Unnecessary: The Historic Legacies of Kura on Contemporary Japanese Cities

This paper proposes to bring to light the dissident narratives that the anecdotal and anti quated kura emphasize about our society’s cultural, ethical and urban biases. At a time when social unrest, rapid technological advances, and climate change’s earliest consequences are foreshadowing both gradual and abrupt changes, this on-going research project aims to reflect on the pre-modern infrastructure’s legacy today, and to ask what trade infrastructure should be, and which values and ideologies it should reflect.

Volume Editors
Jasmine Benyamin, Kyle Reynolds, Mo Zell, Nikole Bouchard & Whitney Moon

ISBN
978-1-944214-28-9