TOKYO BOOK LAUNCH AND LECTURE
Julien De Smedt to lectures at INAX Ginza, Tokyo for Agenda Book
Launch, Wednesday, March 31, 2010
INAX Ginza 3-6-18 Kyoubashi
Chuou-ku, Tokyo 104-0031
18:00 – Doors open
18:30 – Lecture
20:00-21:00 – Book launch reception
admission: 500 Yen

KYOTO BOOK LAUNCH, LECTURE AND EXHIBITION
Julien De Smedt will lecture at Sfera, Kyoto for Agendibition; a
presentation in a spatial format of our recent book, Agenda.
Opening Friday, April 2, 2010.

The exhibition will be from the 2nd April – 9th May.
SferaExhibition 17 Benzaiten-cho,
Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto 605-0086
17:30 – Doors open
18:00 – Lecture Symposium “Case of Dezain 10: Julien De Smedt x Eizo Okada”
19:30 – Book launch reception
admission: 500 Yen

JDS Architects exhibition at Sfera: AGENDIBITION
Gallery Hours 11:00 – 20:00
Closed Wednesday
Exhibition admission: free

Agendibition is an exhibition of architecture through the expansion of a book, turning a narrative into a space. Presented as a spatial experience, the book is laid out so that the entire contents can be seen all at once on the gallery walls. The pages are supplemented by physical models and images on display in the center of the gallery space. Agenda started as an architecture book, occupying the territory between a monograph, a diary, and a collection of essays, interviews, and conversations. It documents the work and thinking of JDS Architects over a specific year marked by crisis, beginning on September 15th, 2008, the day that Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy.

Rather than a definitive direction, our agenda is a definitive attitude – of eagerness, enthusiasm, and optimism, of criticality and concern, of fun and inquiry. It is a directive, a motivation to act, at times without clear knowledge of where our agenda will lead. The task of Agenda is to explore what kind of change will be needed if architects are to assume a political and social agency in this new landscape.

Bringing together diverse forms of content, Agenda is a product of vigilant observation, introspection, and engagement with outside thinkers and collaborators – artists, curators, politicians, authors, economists, journalists, developers, educators, and architects. The final result, on display at Sfera, is the book as it has never been seen before.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND THE LECTURES, PLEASE RSVP, INCLUDING THE NAMES OF THOSE YOU WOULD LIKE TO BRING:

for TOKYO lecture: lectures [at] jdsa.be

for KYOTO lecture: exhibition [at] ricordi-sfera.com