OLIVE (A Handbook to Protect Your Life)

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Nosigner

Media Factory, Tokyo, 2011, Japanese

Design, General

6.7 x 4.3 x 1.1 inches, paperback, 206 pages

ISBN: 9784840142137

Suggested Retail Price: ¥ 1,000 ($12.88)

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This book derives from information exchanged on Twitter immediately after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. At the time, social networking via mobile phone was an incredibly important—the only—tool for learning about the needs of those who were affected by disaster. Those who lived far from the devasted area exchanged information and relayed offers of help, but there was no effective platform to facilitate and archive them.

Nosigner then came up with a Wiki project called OLIVE (Open Ideas and Designs for Earthquake Survivors) to enable mass collaboration for aiding the striken area and victims. He invited designers to submit ideas for designs that would be useful for disaster relief, archiving these design entries, which could be assembled at an evacuation center. Nosigner later edited the uploaded entries and created this book. It is full of tips and tools for survival in extreme conditions, and I would like everyone to read it as a reminder of disasters of any kind around the globe.

この本は、3月11日直後から開始されたツイッター上での情報交換に端を発する。災害にあった人々と直接やり取りができたという意味で、SNSの即時性は極めて効果的なツールとして機能した。被災地域から遠くにいる人でも「何か助けになれば」と多くの人々は情報交換をし続けたが、そのための有効なプラットフォームが存在しなかった。

そこでnosignerは震災のためのデザインのウィキペディアOLIVEを立ち上げ、応急ステージにおけるマス・コラボレーションを可能とした。一般人から集められた数多くのブリコラージュ的デザインを紹介し、被災地域にあっても即座に利用可能な情報として提供したのである。この本は、そのウェブサイトにアップされた沢山の情報をnosignerが書籍として編纂したものである。災害時に必要な知識や、すぐにでも制作可能な道具等が紹介されており、ぜひとも自然災害に対してのリマインダーとして読んで頂きたい。

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