Abstract
ABSTRACT Mapping Tokyo Olympics 3.0 is a collaborative sensory archive of demolition and displacement surrounding the three Tokyo Olympics. Understanding the Olympics as a cyclical `practice of subtraction,' where the city is not only rebuilt but unbuilt, we uncover the intertwined layers of the urban development history of these Games and the imperial (1940), high-growth (1964) and post-growth (2020/2021) periods in which they have occurred. Cancelled due to World War II, the first Tokyo Olympics were a phantom event; the second was held in the wake of massive protests against the US-Japan Security Treaty; and the third was postponed and hobbled by the global pandemic amid lingering fears caused by the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Each iteration of the Games has imposed physical effects on the urban landscape of Tokyo with the displacement of vulnerable and precarious persons as a consequence. Mapping the politics of demolition and displacement with the tools of hybrid spatial-sensory ethnography and using intermedial approaches, Mapping Tokyo Olympics 3.0 is a sensory archive of the lived experience of those displacements. Incorporating local knowledge and collaborative research-creation methodologies, we uncover layers of time, history and materiality to embrace contingencies and envision social futures. The sensory mapping archive becomes an archaeology of the future.
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