24 September 2003
This seminar provided an overview of the links of Japan and the UK and considered the potential for future collaborations while providing insights into the HE sector and the growing opportunities for bilateral research and exchange.
20 October 2004
Professor Anthony Fielding, Professor David Cope and Hiroshi Saito discussed the issues of urban change in Japan, focussing on the problems of social segregation.
22 September 2004
Major development projects, such as Roppongi Hills in Tokyo, have been the result of long-term planning and consultation exercises. How both the UK and Japan are formulating their visions for the future and how the government and private sectors are working together to realise those visions were the focus of the presentations.
23 June 2004
In both Japan and the UK, work and leisure spaces are becoming increasingly integrated and urban life is adapting to accommodate the priorities of different generations as well as international influences.
28 April 2004
Probably every British person who has been to Japan, at some point finds him or herself crying out, ‘if only we had their rail and bus systems over here (but not their traffic jams)!’
24 March 2004
What can Japan and the UK learn from each other about home-building – and what type of homes do people want in the 21st century? Can these homes be constructed in ways which minimise the impacts on the environment?
18 February 2004
The Commission held a seminar at the end of March 2004 to determine the exact focus of the study. Japan’s experience in transforming itself from an urban society with serious pollution problems to one which, with some exceptions, manages to combine high population densities with high standards of physical environmental quality, could well be relevant to the Commission’s interests.
21 January 2004
Roger Madelin discussed the King’s Cross project in London, and Peter Carl and David Height discussed the planned redevelopment of the northern Osaka Station area.
5 December 2005
Over the last 25 years, Antony Gormley has revitalised the human image in sculpture through a radical investigation of the body as a place of memory and transformation, using his own body as subject, tool and material. Since 1990, he has expanded his concern with the human condition to explore the collective body and the relationship between self and other in large-scale installations like ‘Allotment’, ‘Critical Mass’, ‘Another Place’, and most recently ‘Domain Field’ and ‘Inside Australia’.
19 October 2005
In examining the experience of museums in both the Uk and Japan, this seminar considered the role of government and business in supporting the arts and looked particularly to the involvement of Japanese newspapers, like the Asahi Shimbun, in sponsoring international exhibitions, both at home and abroad.