Civic Scenographies
MArch by Conversion
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Year: 2025/26
Complementary to Commoning the City, this body of work extends an ongoing investigation into the social and material flows associated with reclamation, reuse, and adaptation within the urban fabric of Kyoto.
While the DipArch project focused primarily on spatial and typological propositions, this project marks a shift in emphasis toward methodology, exploring how scenography can operate as a lens within architectural practice and research to better understand and intervene in everyday civic life.
The project adopts scenography as an architectural methodology that reframes the city as a lived stage composed of routines, thresholds, materials, and encounters. Rather than treating architecture as a static object or final resolution, scenographic thinking foregrounds space as relational, temporal, and contingent, shaped by human and non-human actors alike.
Through this lens, the architect is repositioned as a scenographer who curates conditions, sequences, and atmospheres through which civic life becomes collectively legible. This shift allows architectural practice to engage more closely with tacit forms of knowledge that emerge through making, maintenance, and shared use, rather than through formal instruction or representation alone.
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Year: 2025/26
Complementary to Commoning the City, this body of work extends an ongoing investigation into the social and material flows associated with reclamation, reuse, and adaptation within the urban fabric of Kyoto.
While the DipArch project focused primarily on spatial and typological propositions, this project marks a shift in emphasis toward methodology, exploring how scenography can operate as a lens within architectural practice and research to better understand and intervene in everyday civic life.
The project adopts scenography as an architectural methodology that reframes the city as a lived stage composed of routines, thresholds, materials, and encounters. Rather than treating architecture as a static object or final resolution, scenographic thinking foregrounds space as relational, temporal, and contingent, shaped by human and non-human actors alike.
Through this lens, the architect is repositioned as a scenographer who curates conditions, sequences, and atmospheres through which civic life becomes collectively legible. This shift allows architectural practice to engage more closely with tacit forms of knowledge that emerge through making, maintenance, and shared use, rather than through formal instruction or representation alone.
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