[Workshop] CTR workshop series 2025 Session 2 “Street Art in Japan: Opportunities and Challenges”
公開日 2025.05.21
The Center for Tourism Research (CTR), Wakayama University has held workshops for students and young researchers since 2022. This year's three sessions will be held in a hybrid format at Wakayama University and online.
In the second session, Dr. Mohamed Elbarbary, a lecturer at CTR will explain the different types of street art and its history in Japan. He will also present several examples of employing street art as a creative tool of urban beautification, placemaking and place branding.
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CTR workshop series for students and young researchers 2025
Session 2 “Street Art in Japan: Opportunities and Challenges”
Overview
Graffiti is a popular street art subculture that emerged with the hip-hop movement in the US in the early 1970s. It includes different types such as tags (name writing), throw-ups, stickers, stencils, and murals. Recently, there has been a broad acknowledgement of employing street art, especially murals, as a creative tool of urban beautification, placemaking and place branding. However, in Japan and other countries, the misconception of street art and its potential often provokes public controversy and discourages official support for creative street art projects. Attendees will learn about the different types of street art and its history in Japan. We will also present several examples of employing street art for meaningful purposes (e.g., touristic, educational, social, political, and urban). Do not miss the chance to gain valuable insights into a trendy topic in recent multidisciplinary research.
Date
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Time
4:30~5:30 PM (JST, GMT+9)
Venue
[Online] Zoom
[In Person] Room 107 (Conference room), Bldg. West.1, Wakayama University
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Speaker
Dr. Mohamed Elbarbary (Lecturer, Center for Tourism Research, Wakayama University, Japan)
Mohamed Elbarbary (Mido-Sensei) is a lecturer at CTR. He holds a PhD in World Cultural Heritage Studies from Tsukuba University, Japan, in 2022. Later, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Art and Design at Tsukuba University, where he led a research project on ‘Graffiti as Catalyst for Sense of Place’ in collaboration with Hamburg University, Germany. Mohamed’s research interests include tourism studies, cultural heritage, human geography, and linguistic landscape. He has published several papers in international peer-reviewed journals as a leading and co-author, including a recently published book chapter on ‘New Approach to the Documentation of the Tagging Subculture in Tokyo’, which will be discussed in our workshop.
●Moderator：Dr. Husna Zainal Abidin (Associate Professor, Faculty of Tourism/ Center for Tourism Research, Wakayama University, Japan)
Registration
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Contact:
Wakayama University
Sakaedani 930, Wakayama-city 640-8510, JAPAN
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