Thinly Town: Reversible Landscape of the Underpopulated Village

Project by Asahi Shinoda

Generally, many small towns’ population in Japan have shrunk over the last 100 years. A small town in Hokkaido may altogether disappear in the next twenty years. The project proposes the new type of country life in an aging society. This is a story of one family who returns there to start new life in 2050..