Research Article - "RE/MAP 2.0 in Tokyo: Drawing on Local Stories to Draw Out Hidden Realities", Visual Studies.

In September 2018, fifteen Master of Architecture candidates at the National University of Singapore travelled Tokyo to participate in RE/MAP 2.0, a week-long workshop with students from Rikkyo University’s College of Sociology. The objective of this cross-disciplinary pedagogic collaboration was to identify, document and reflect on the acute social as well as material transformations following the intensification of urban redevelopment across the capital – better known as Tokyo 2020 – in the lead up to the unrealised 2020 Olympics and Paralympic Games.

Although the workshop was exploratory in nature, the social issues underpinning each site and the communities affected by urban restructuring are very real. This article discusses the role of drawings in interdisciplinary visual research, especially the contribution of line drawings to investigative fieldwork.

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