Hello, I'm Hiro, a Japanse student and studying at New Media Design, Aalto university as an exchange student.
This project Media Intervention gives me my first opportunity to visit and know Espoo Keskus area.
I think this area located between Rural area and Urban. As we went to a walk and looked around, the centre is everything is under construction and still growing. The process based on master plan of the city and it's changing the face quietly but certainly.
I went to take a look around then I saw a lot of ordinary but particular things: a big road goes through a forest, and a train toward capital Helsinki comes over to the station once in 15 minutes. Public accommodation such as libraries and a shopping malls, a new apartment are built around a station. Parking lots and buildings go along with main road and the back of those, residential area opens. Some road were digging out so telephone wires or water pipes or Internet cables or something exposed. When I keep going in the opposite direction of the road, I saw trees and field. There is an elementary school and a park that connects to green field.
That reminds me I have heard it when they planned a city in Helsinki, they placed residential area surrounded by green fields. It means that a green field makes a belt form so that residence areas and commerce area do not just continue. That enable people to enjoy the nature easily. These terms that everything -like green park area and school and public service, commercial area- is close to their home and work place is far from there is so typical situation in small city.
I feel something familiar to my hometown. The main difference between my hometown and here is inhabitants, I think. Many Swedish people used to live here historically, but a lot of migrants live now. It is a metropolitan area, but the wage charges are not high as Helsinki. They can go to Helsinki in 30 minutes by train. The residence rate of the migrant from the Middle East Asia and West Africa are high, and the second generation is born of it from such a reason. There was the girl brought up more than 13 years. In addition, it is said that children talked about 30 kinds of different languages in the youth center.
For me, images of the country area which seemed to be anywhere is similar and there's no variety of races but the image was broken. If backgrounds are different, life rhythm and manners should be different naturally. The friction will be easy to be born, too. Still what seem to be able to coexist may be because there is a fact that a young parent brings up a child. I feel like having known the pureness of the child exceed a cultural fence.
By the way when I explain and remember my hometown by words, what will I talk? Is it the smile of my family or the memory with my friend, a park I played around, the school or favorite shop? I feel attachment in the history and the culture of my hometown.
There are some old temples or remains of big rock between areas of supermarkets and schools, parks. I really liked the gap and it was fun to learn its history. I means exaggeratedly that history of can be called a source of my identity.
On the other hand, what will children or people who met in Senterri and Trapesa feel about the identity? What connect to their feeling strongly? What will they recognize as identity? I'm really interested in meanings of their living in Espoo Keskus.
I think this area located between Rural area and Urban. As we went to a walk and looked around, the centre is everything is under construction and still growing. The process based on master plan of the city and it's changing the face quietly but certainly.
I went to take a look around then I saw a lot of ordinary but particular things: a big road goes through a forest, and a train toward capital Helsinki comes over to the station once in 15 minutes. Public accommodation such as libraries and a shopping malls, a new apartment are built around a station. Parking lots and buildings go along with main road and the back of those, residential area opens. Some road were digging out so telephone wires or water pipes or Internet cables or something exposed. When I keep going in the opposite direction of the road, I saw trees and field. There is an elementary school and a park that connects to green field.
That reminds me I have heard it when they planned a city in Helsinki, they placed residential area surrounded by green fields. It means that a green field makes a belt form so that residence areas and commerce area do not just continue. That enable people to enjoy the nature easily. These terms that everything -like green park area and school and public service, commercial area- is close to their home and work place is far from there is so typical situation in small city.
I feel something familiar to my hometown. The main difference between my hometown and here is inhabitants, I think. Many Swedish people used to live here historically, but a lot of migrants live now. It is a metropolitan area, but the wage charges are not high as Helsinki. They can go to Helsinki in 30 minutes by train. The residence rate of the migrant from the Middle East Asia and West Africa are high, and the second generation is born of it from such a reason. There was the girl brought up more than 13 years. In addition, it is said that children talked about 30 kinds of different languages in the youth center.
For me, images of the country area which seemed to be anywhere is similar and there's no variety of races but the image was broken. If backgrounds are different, life rhythm and manners should be different naturally. The friction will be easy to be born, too. Still what seem to be able to coexist may be because there is a fact that a young parent brings up a child. I feel like having known the pureness of the child exceed a cultural fence.
By the way when I explain and remember my hometown by words, what will I talk? Is it the smile of my family or the memory with my friend, a park I played around, the school or favorite shop? I feel attachment in the history and the culture of my hometown.
There are some old temples or remains of big rock between areas of supermarkets and schools, parks. I really liked the gap and it was fun to learn its history. I means exaggeratedly that history of can be called a source of my identity.
On the other hand, what will children or people who met in Senterri and Trapesa feel about the identity? What connect to their feeling strongly? What will they recognize as identity? I'm really interested in meanings of their living in Espoo Keskus.
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