The Greatness of Small

Ten Years of Thinking, Making and Living co+labo radović 研究室

“…co+labo radović is positioned against "the spectacle has spread itself to the point where it (…) permeates all reality. It was easy to predict in theory (…) that the globalisation of the false was also the falsification of the globe" (Debord, 1988), and we have got together in agreement that "The quality and the character of everyday life, together with spatial expressions of ordinary activities are going to be the measure of success or failure on the road to-wards sustainable development" (Radović, 2012), where we seek radical realism, as the praxis of eco-urbanity. co+labo radović could be visualised as a patchwork of overlapping essays un progress, essays as in the original sense of the word -as trials, attempts, endeavors.…”

“…In Another Tokyo (2008a), Small Tokyo (with D. Boontharm, 2011) and in other attempts (eg. Radović 2012Radović , 2017Radović , 2018, I sought to explain how acquisition of vécu, for a foreigner still dramatically uncommon everydayness of Tokyo, opens ever-new realities of its complex, layered urbanity. One needs to understand that here foreigners constitute only 1.5 of total population (in comparison with 14% in Paris, 36% in London, 37 in New York).…”