Yun Chan was confused with the crow’s proposal of crossing the railway and guidance offer around the town. The railway was the cat’s border of imagination between here and there; existing and future; Though afraid, she followed the crow.

She was disturbed by the crowd. Couldn’t find greenery and water to play or to rest (or to hide) This place was not pleasing her. Then, the crown asked the cat to tell him about her idealized city.

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One night Shimo dreamed. He was in a elevator. And the elevator started falling down!! B1,B2. . . . .B20,B30, and finally down to the BXX floor. When the door openned, an unknown world appeared in front of him. He started to walk the strange world. He saw narrow streets, people walking back and forth, old and low houses, and various kinds of tiny shops. Those were the images of older times when his grandmother was alive. The landscape of the town seemed as an utopia for him.

The other day when he was wandering around the town, he found a vacant flat. He decided to draw a picture of the flat. He made a lot of drawings. When he finished the painting, he found that they closely look alike the scene he had before seen with his eyes .

From that day, he goes to his new atelier and draws old scenes of the town. He gradually wants to draw bigger pictures using a wall of the building as a canvas. He made little paintings on a door of a closed shop. Whenever he found a free space, he drew some some more.

Then one day he passed by his work, he noticed a little stall opened in front of his drawing. He talked to the shop keeper.

The man said,

“I was very moved by the drawings I saw at the street. I think this is an ideal town.”

As time went by, a lot of shops began to stand one after another, and three years after, the town was full of colors, smells and voices of people. That scenery was different from what he had seen under the ground, but its atmosphere was the kind he so much enjoyed there.

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Museum of Shimokitazawa

There is a man who loves Shimokitazawa. But now Shimokitazawa is facing the danger of reconstruction. He wants to preserve the landscape and atmosphere of Shimokitazawa. For this reason, he is planning to make a museum this neighborhood. The purpose of the museum is: to make it possible for people in the 22nd century feel Shimokitazawa as it is today (2006).
He is now wondering what should be collected and exhibited. For example, shop signs, public furniture, souvenirs, and so on. But he doubts that just collecting these featuring parts of the town can represent the whole of the real Shimokitazawa. He wants to listen the city dwellers, opinion about the ways of expressing the town. And he starts wandering about Shimokitazawa.

One example is the appealing point, given by the softness of the pedestrian paths. Another aspect: the possibility of unexpected findings, new discoveries happening, new shops, unknown paths.

Since he will be the curator, he is trying to evaluate in which way can he represent, or revive, not only the concrete objects, but mainly the intangible qualities (sounds, gestures, movement, density, smell) that together, give the neighborhood its true spatial quality.

How will the future visitors unpack the content of this museum? How can the memory of this neighborhood now, be relevant to their lives?

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