An old greenhouse used as the base for Ano Greenhouse.
Ano Greenhouse
Art Project Utilizing Unparalleled Campus Resources The vast campus, rich in nature. Research and educational activities in a variety of fields ranging from humanities and social sciences to natural sciences. The art project, Ano Greenhouse (lit. That Greenhouse), connects these activities and promotes various initiatives to create new value. There is an old greenhouse on the premises of the nursery of the Sapporo Experimental Forest along Ishiyama-dori Avenue near Soen Station. In September 2020, a new art project using this greenhouse as a field was launched. The project was initiated by Hyunjung Park, a Specially Appointed Lecturer at the Communication in Science & Technology Education & Research Program (CoSTEP), Center for Open Education, Institute for the Advancement of Higher Education. Specially Appointed Lecturer Park conducts research and education on communication in art and science, and also works extensively as a contemporary art artist. CoSTEP’s Communicators in Science and Technology Education Program offers practical classes in which students consider how to understand and express science and technology through art. The art project, Ano Greenhouse,
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was launched after Dr. Park met Tadakazu Hayashi, a technical specialist at the Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, who participated in the program and introduced the greenhouse to her. It was love at first sight when she saw the building and its surroundings, including the unique structure built in the 1970s, the trees around it, and the overpass leading there. “I was attracted to the building itself, with its skylights that could be opened and closed by pulleys with chains, and its R curve, which was fashionable at the time. I was also very attracted to the idea of planning how to preserve the former research field in the present,” Dr. Park says.
Memories of That Bridge Ano Greenhouse’s goal is the exchange of people’s
