The circular architectural project "Regenerative Forest -JINEN'' by JINOWA Consortium for restoration of earth

株式会社GEN Japan

2021

PRIZE

  • Future of Huge Events Prize
  • The Tokowaka Prize
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Aiming for a society in which all industries improve the soil, JINOWA, an international consortium of companies from Italy, is promoting projects internationally that lead to decarbonization and ecosystem recovery through soil improvement. A social experiment was launched in Italy in May on the occasion of the Venice Biennale, the world's largest art festival. The health of the soil is linked to plants, humans, and all life, and contributes greatly to people's wellbeing. JINOWA will not set a goal of disposal, but will promote new industries and social transformation aimed at "improving the soil," and provide soil fertility as a major solution to restore not only the global environment, but also all ecosystems, including humans. We will provide soil fertility as a major solution to restore not only the global environment but also all ecosystems including human beings.

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The circular architectural project "Regenerative Forest -JINEN'' is a soil restoration project started in Venice by the JINOWA International Consortium and the Japanese architect Tono Mirai in May 2021.

The exhibition of JINEN in the European Culture Center in Venice is dedicated to showing how the process of building can lead the circular value for the current environmental crisis.

JINEN also contained a biodiversity garden of the dune plants that aim to regenerate the Venetian lagoon ecosystem.

From November, when the exhibition ends, JINEN will step forward to the most exciting phase to create new value in the local society and transform all materials as products, education and collaborate with the various initiatives to increase soil fertility and profit in the local community.

In particular, the JINOWA consortium is strongly engaged in soil education through the JINEN: the process of decomposing JINEN has great potential to stimulate the Venetian community to create various innovative values rather than just disposal.

JINOWA put all creativity to maximize the value through Jinen materials transformation to benefit local green and edible garden projects and collaborate with initiatives on Giudecca Island in Venezia.

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Tatsuya Takeda

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc.
General Manager, Sustainability Promotion Office, Planning Department

Future of Huge Events Prize

The Financial Times recently published an estimate of the carbon footprint of the 30,000 people who will be flying in and out of COP26. It’s ironic that so many people will be flying in from all over the world to discuss reducing carbon emissions. While the pandemic has raised the possibility of holding events online, there are some events that lose their value if they are not attended in person. Arts festivals are a good example. However, this project suggests that even arts festivals will struggle to gain support if they are not environmentally friendly. I think this entry is a great attempt at showing how large-scale events should be held in future. Incidentally, the theme for the 2025 Osaka Expo is SDGs.

Hiroki Tanahashi

Loftwork Inc. Innovation Maker

The Tokowaka Prize

I appreciate that this project highlights soil, a resource that is so important for food production and human health, but that also has low potential for regeneration. The JINOWA consortium brings together several companies that are working to emphasize the value of soil as a resource, and it’s interesting that they should choose to focus on issues faced by the Venice Biennale arts festival. Yet it all somehow makes sense. Seemingly contradictory approaches – innovative global collaboration versus traditional local approaches, environmental activism versus art – point to something entirely new being born.

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