We live in an age where children can speak confidently about the environment, and wonder out loud how to interact with nature in a way that is less impactful, more harmonious. Damn wish I’d been that aware at their age.
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Here I’m with Jane Hasell-McCosh @dalemainmansion @marmaladeawards where we spent a morning at the beautiful Hizuchi Elementary School in #Yawatahama, the city where the @yawatahama_marmalade_festival was held.
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This school building was the winner of the 2012 @worldmonumentsfund @knollinc prize for its restoration, and learned about the school’s history and architectural details described to us with a tour and essays written and spoken by the school’s junior students.
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The school building was designed in 1956-1958 by postwar modernist architect #MatsumuraMasatsune #松村正恒 #建築家 #ともうひとつのモダニズム, and was radical in its time for the way it interacted with the environment: allowing air to circulate through its form, used local wood in its build, creating light-filled spaces for the children to work in.
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Click on this hashtag #marmaladefestivaljapan to see more about the very first festival of Marmalade in Japan, I’ll keep posting stories here about the events that took place while we helped present the judging and festival.
