•  Countryside, The Future is an exhibition curated by Rem Koolhaas and AMO, the think tank of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), at the Guggenheim Museum In 2020.This exhibition was focused on "countryside", as overlooked areas where radical changes are taking, compared to the "city" where various theories and research have been developed so far, for the purpose of raising future questions. NoRA and Kobayashi Lab was in charge of the Japan section.

     In the research of Japan, "countryside" was defined as areas on the verge of disappearing due to rapid aging and population decline, based on statistics, government estimates, and interviews with various ministries and agencies. Focusing on the fact that one of the government's plans for these crises is robotization, we visited and reported on the Fukushima Robot Test Field as a model of the area where people disappeared. At the exhibition, graphics, videos, and real robots were exhibited, and the text was included in the book "Countryside, A Report".

location: NYC
program: research, exhibition
area: NA
year: 2019
status: complete
team:
collaborators: