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Verena Nobel explores global dialogue at Expo 2025 Osaka Kansai How do nations perform their identity on the global stage? This question lies at the heart of my current research in Japan, where I explore how Germany crafts and communicates its national identity at Expo 2025 Osaka Kansai through architecture, storytelling, and immersive experience. World Expos are more than just showcases of innovation. They are...

At #Expo2025 Osaka Kansai — a crossroads of national identity, international collaboration and shared futures — student Verena Nobel is inspired by the many opportunities to spark global dialogue and build new connections. #MyExpo2025
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Out in the blazing summer for once and somehow, I ended up on the news. 🙂‍↕️ www.asahi.co.jp/webnews/page...

My favorite snapshot I captured at the German Pavilion, Expo 2025 Osaka.

A beautiful day spent in Uji 🌱🍵

Farnsworth House, Mies van der Rohe, Plano, Illinois, 1951.

#architect #miesvanderrohe #photograph #williamtozer

We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.

Heute im Stadtarchiv ein paar interessante Dinge zur Osaka Expo 70 und Düsseldorf rausgefundenen. Bin gespannt was die Gesamtauswertung in der Winterpause hergibt!

A moonlit bay on a warm night, early evening, village lights on inside homes hugging the waters edge, four sale boats moored for the evening. Two trees in the foreground, mountains in the background.

#TsuchiyaKoitsu
“Maizuru Harbor at Night,“ (1936)
#japanese #woodblock

A 2023 edited volume that deals with a critical introduction to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Ed Chad Diehl writes that this volume engages w the shadow of a traumatic past.
There is much to dip into in this book and it will encourage new discussion. It includes my own bio on Ozaki Tomei. 🗃️#ナガサキ

Godzilla video game screen cap: “Go ahead and destroy the financial district, Godzilla. Make the people happy.”

This is my favorite scene in Godzilla

I’ve been in a very not so good headspace since a person very close to me got hospitalized. Today, we finally received a treatment plan, and although things will take their time, it feels like there's finally a small light at the end of the tunnel.

Vielleicht ein Kandidat für das 13te Mysterium an der HHU? 🤔

Some thoughts on 子ども太平洋戦争物語, a manga series
commissioned by Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs from 1996-20210 in order to raise disaster awareness among elementary school students by way of reflecting on Japan's wartime experience of bombing

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marshes and mountains at sunset

#KawaseHasui,1883-1957
Shikishimagawara, Maebashi
#japanese #woodblock

Das etwas andere Teetierchen 😌🍵

Sailboats in a bay in the moonlight. A cypress tree is in the foreground and a mountain is in the far background.

#TsuchiyaKoitsu (1870-1949)
Title: Maiko Sea Shore (1936)i
#japanese #woodblock #shin-hanga #engraver

A man rows a boat with a passenger (hidden by an umbrella) across a cold winter's afternoon through the snow. The houses and trees on the far side are covered with snow.

#KawaseHasui (1883-1957)
Title: Ushibori (1930)
#japanese #woodblock

Ado is doing a World Tour and coming to Düsseldorf?! I‘m so excited 🫣✨

Interessant was man so alles an der @hhu.bsky.social sieht 🤔🎧

What strikes me about the hbomberguy vid (besides the fact that he dresses like the survivor of a nuclear apocalypse, what’s up with that) is how easy it is to rip off academics. A lot of these people have spent decades writing in obscurity and created a goldmine of analyses anyone can rip off

Silhouettes of a shore lined with people, two in a tree watching fireworks in a night grey sky. Only the fireworks and the red, Japanese lanterns light the scene.

#KobayashiKiyochika
Title:Fireworks at Ikenohata (Shinobazu Pond)
#japanese #woodblock

Zu sehen ist die eingestürzte Decke eines Hörsaals.

Symbolbild deutsche Bildungspolitik.

This is gold

A figure in black followed by a small black dog, walks through a snowstorm protected only by a golden paper umbrella. It is a stone-lined canal road near village homes. The sky is grey and the canal is a grey-green-blue color.

#KawaseHasui (1883-1957)
Shinkawabata at Handa in Owari Province woodblock, 1935
#japanese #woodblock

Well, I certainly didn't anticipate the year ending with Somertons plagiarism finally out and about but here we are. On a more serious note, it's really disheartening to see talented authors and researchers caught up in this mess…

First and second at the top most definitely. Needed to see more of the building to evaluate the third at the bottom left. Fourth could be a case of brick brutalism but honestly in this case module structure is more important than material for a proper categorization so I could be wrong 🤷🏻

War ein spannender Workshop mit super Resonanz von den Studierenden. Hoffe in Zukunft bieten sich weitere Chancen für solche Projekte an!

Great idea to upgrade pedestrian paths, especially at night! Hope we see more of such concepts in the future.

#HasuiKawase (1883-1957)
Tennoji Temple in Osaka 1927
#japanese #woodblock

I said it on Twit and I’ll say it here too: DO NOT HESITATE TO TELL YOUR FAVORITE ARTIST OR WRITER OR CREATOR THAT YOU LIKE THEIR WORK. DONT HESITATE TO COMPLIMENT THEM! I hold all the lovely comments folks have given me close to my chest