DESIGN AND VISITORS’ EVALUATION OF URBANISM PLACES EXHIBITION 2018

Urbanism Places Exhibition 2018 was held at 55HIROBA of the Shinjuku Mitsui Building in September 2018. The central concept raised by the exhibition on urban-planning-based public spaces was “planning heritage as real place”. The exhibition consisted of 4 thematic programs, which had a common principle not to disturb day-to-day activities in the planning heritage place. On the other hand, the exhibition itself was expected to derive public space functions and possibilities. The visitors’ evaluation made clear challenges on the balance between the conceptual pursuit and the visitors’ satisfaction as well as the differences of the evaluation between experts and non-experts.