Next Up: Floating Worlds' Mini-Session #2: Christine Bjerke
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\\u201cThe economy of the home becoming an investment culture instead of a savings culture disrupts the idea of very specific gendered roles in Japanese society,\\u201d states the Copenhagen-based architect Christine Bjerke during an interview conducted as part of Archinect\\u2019s Next Up: Floating Worlds. Bjerke\\u2019s project (On the Floating World of the) FX Beauties, which inspired the name of the event,derives from her research into the spatial implications of the work of the FX Beauties, a club of Japanese housewives who engage in day-trading on foreign exchange markets.
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