an international platform for strategic thinking making and living better cities
design + culture + education + research + action
co+re.platform has emerged from a convergence and fruitful, determined intertwining of two architectural and urban design sensibilities and ways of thinking, making and living diverse urban realities of the East and the West, as embodied in the work of co-founders Professors Davisi Boontharm and Darko Radović, since 2OO1.
Tanizaki's handwritten tanka poem of 1963. "This heart of mine is only one, it cannot be known by anybody but myself."
co+re activities
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forthcoming
Unfolding Shibaura: People and Place on Paper
Dates: November 8, 14, and 15, 2026
Venue: Shibaura House, and the neighbourhood of Shibaura, Tokyo:
Workshop leader: co+re Davisi Boontharm and Darko Radović
Convenors: Masamichi Tamura and Shibaura House team
Target Audience: residence of Minato-ku who loves creative expression, storytelling, local exploration, and hands-on making and drawing.
Unfolding Shibaura is a three-part creative workshop bridging circular practices, urban exploration, and personal narrative through drawing and writing.
We introduce the resourceful approach by transforming discarded paper into traditional orihon (accordion-folding books), participants embark on a hands-on journey of creative process, layering, juxtaposing and questioning the relationship between the old and the new. Through mindful wandering (dérive), sketching, writing, and mixed-media art techniques, participants will give new life to forgotten paper while mapping their personal connections to the neighbourhood.
