This project is an installation based on the earthenware culture in Chiba. We create and fire earthenware using the soil of Chiba, assuming that they will be dug up after 10,000 years. The project aims to rebuild lifestyle and landscape through landscape design using locally unique materials and manual work, to cast light on the loss of culture due to the modern homogenized townscape design and dependence on distributions. For the exhibition, we will prepare a space where people can see materials in a room of an apartment built over 50 years ago. Based on the timeline of earthenware, the installation makes people who see it imagine a tremendously long period of time. The land dug up for clay collection will be exhibited as a ruin. All works from the collection of materials to exhibition will be done manually and they represent the reconstruction of relationship with the land with actual feeling. At the same time, a workshop entitled “Let’s make earthenware from clay around you.” Clay is collected within the city, and participants will make earthenware products with the supervision of a pottery artist and fire them on the ground on the final day. The workshop is targeted for citizens aged 9 (Grade 4 elementary school students) or older. Fire prevention safety measures are fully equipped. We expect that this experience would be an opportunity for participants to imagine the past and future of Chiba and to actually feel that how they relate to the city will create its future landscape. [Types of citizen involvement] Workshop, Artwork production, Participation in production, Exhibition viewing

A project to put up flags with traces of conversations written. People who meet in the workshop have free conversations. They scribble on a cloth or a handkerchief while they talk. These scribbles can be notes of interesting comments from conversations, or doodles of diagrams or images to show what they would like to say to others. Scribbles and doodles – ”traces of conversations” left on clothes through the workshop will be combined by the artist to make flags. Conversation workshops are held at several places in Chiba. Traces of conversations held at each place will be displayed on flags at the place. Visitors witness various conversations at different places by seeing the flags placed in several places during the event. The project lets people think about going to see someone in person, witnessing something with their own eyes, sharing time and space and having conversations with others. [Types of citizen involvement] Workshop, Exhibition viewing