How do spaces and materials relate and create the ‘social’ contexts? How are material ‘order’ or the ‘social’ meaning such as collectivity and individuality interrelated? In this essay I explore the relations of spaces, materials, and the ‘social’ using several episodes in a public shelter after the great earthquake happened in Japan in January 1995. Sudden collapse of continuous interrelations of the materials and spaces in a metropolitan area reveals the process of the (re)creation of both collectibility and individuality through the delegation through the delegation of the spaces and materials at large and small scales.
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