YUKO ITATSU LABORATORY, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO

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Master’s Student
修士課程学生

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e-mail [at]→@:
yashalai[at]g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Information, Technology, and Society in Asia (ITASIA) Program, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies

Languages: English, Chinese, German, Japanese (learning)

I’m a Master’s student from Singapore with a background in Anthropology who’s interested in researching global pottery flows. I want to think about aesthetics, creativity, design, and making, in the context of these transnational flows. What makes pottery specifically “Japanese”, and how is “Japanese pottery” understood internationally? I want to trace the aesthetic supply chain of Japanese pottery, focusing on how potteries are affectively and sensually, showing how Japanese pottery undergoes a process of “translation” along this supply chain, encoded with flexible meanings that can be decoded simultaneously to mean different things to different people.

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東京大学大学院　情報学環・学際情報学府　アジア情報社会コース　

言語：英語・中国語・ドイツ語・日本語 (学習中)

シンガポール出身の修士課程学生です。研究分野は人類学で、主に陶器やそれを作る陶芸家がどのように世界に流出していくのかという疑問を持ちます。 これらの国境を越えた「流れ」の中で、美学、創造性、デザイン、制作方法などについて考えたいと思います。