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Still City Project



The Still City Project investigates how we can move beyond the driving forces of our modern industrialized world; infinite economic growth, technologic progress and population growth. The project is a search for the 'Still City': an urban culture that is based on dynamics that are inclusive and sustainable. The ambition of the project is to find and make the images and stories we need to construct a post-growth urban society. — read more

The Still City Project


Power to the People


Still City Tokyo


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Participants hold a traditional Koinobori carp-shaped banner during a march welcoming the shut down of the nation’s last nuclear reactor in Tokyo on Saturday. (May, 2012)

Resources: Reconsidering Dependency — In addition to this, the tsunami caused a number of nuclear accidents that forced Japan to rethink its energy infrastructure – including the correlation energy production has with the need to curb climate change. Japan has little in terms of energy resources, and yet is one of the world’s largest energy consumers. Post-311, this condition took center stage, as energy became scarcer, necessitating a new relation to energy, through technology and production keeping in mind safety economic and political interests. As of July 1st Japan has fixed a feed-in tariff for solar energy for the next 20 year. An incentive after the German model that would create a market of 9.6 billion dollars for the coming two decades.

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