RAD is an architectural research practice based in Kyoto, founded in 2008. We've been organizing diverse and cross-disciplinary programmes including events such as lectures, conversations / series of interviews / exhibition / spatial direction / publication.

In the SUUJIN MAINTENANCE CLUB project, we attempted to conduct maintenance on seemingly abandoned objects (cracked concrete, broken traffic cones, etc.) and on the lost behaviors of people (their interactions and liveliness) in Kyoto’s Suujin district, a district currently under gentrification process. By doing so, we hoped to compile an archive of maintenance methods that can be shared.

The spaces we live in continue to be sustained while being constantly renewed by the various little acts carried out by different people. The density of these ceaseless interactions with the city gives rise to its unique textures and vigor. In the SUUJIN MAINTENANCE CLUB project, we attempted to conduct maintenance on seemingly abandoned objects (cracked concrete, broken traffic cones, etc.) and on the lost behaviors of people (their interactions and liveliness) in Kyoto’s Suujin district, a district currently under gentrification process.

The act of maintenance is not about restoring things by simply returning them to their former states; rather, it is about imagining their past and creating the time ahead of them in which they will continue to be sustained. In doing this, we seek to consider the positive and negative aspects of the act of maintenance.

In carrying out the project, we collaborated with a variety of people and explore ways of conducting maintenance based on the methods that they employ in their daily creative activities.

Additionally, we documented these methods and disclose them to the public so they can be shared easily.

Members
・Mariko Aoki
・Ryosuke Imamura
・Onajikeshikiwomiteiru
・Junko Kidou
・Mayo Koide
・Keisuke Jinba
・Yasuto Masumoto
・Soichiro Murata
・Sho Yoshihama
・APP ARTS STUDIO
・FABLAB Kitakagaya
・hyslom
・junko awatani
・NO ARCHITECTS