Midori Story

My dear grandchild, hope you`re doing fine there... Granny had spent very interesting weekend which strongly related to my major in Kyushu University, city planning. I bet, you might have the same thought as mine when I saw the workshop rundown activity ``could I stand on it? three hours sitting and discussing something tough such as city planning?`` Well...in contrary, the workshop was soooooooo fun <3 It was organized by Urban Design Center Island City (UDCIC) and of course it was held in Island City ! Actually, at first I recognized it as ``Grin-Grin` but later on when I oftenly came and found that the whole part of that place called Island City. I already talked much about this place in my previous writing, you may read it here . Ohtani Sensei was the one who informed that there`d be an exhibition in UDCIC, so then I checked on their website and luckily I also read about this event. Although it would be held in Japanese and the deadline registration has passed, b...

My dear, In these two years I have been influenced alot by the academic environment and people in my department - Architecture, Urban Design , Planning and Disaster Management- under The Faculty of Human & Environment at Kyushu University. I realized it on last year trip with others student from different faculties and majors. Along the journey, mostly, I asked the guide about the buildings and landscapes that we passed through. The other student who was sitting next to me suddenly asked ``Tiwi, why you are so interested on buildings?``.. Well well well...hey man,  look at me now!!...It`s all because of you. You are the one who affected me, even I am interested to know more about famous architects from Japan as such Toyoo Ito, Shigeru Ban, Kengo Kuma, Arata Isozaki, etc. Guyzz, don`t ask who is that man, never ever try it ! :) Fortunately this lovely city has alot of  interesting buildings which are designed by those famous architects. My new Thai friends,...