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The "Street of Learning" was partly designed by a team from the Department of Architecture of Tohoku University. Their topic concerns reconstruction following the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The team has created a small model of a city based on Sendai, which was affected by the twin disasters and the Fukushima nuclear crisis. Residents of Sendai were invited to color the model, which helped them to recall the original landscape of their home through art.

The "Street of Objects" features a variety of items that help people to identify a specific city. One of the artists behind this part of the exhibition held three workshops in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Taipei. He planned trips within these three cities to places that do not fully appear on maps. The objects and images of cities that he presents at the exhibition are fragments, rather than clear and complete wholes. However, as visitors stare at the images, they start to become familiar, causing people to begin to question which streets belong to which city.

In Western architecture, there have been continuous reflections on and projections of utopian ideals. However, there is hardly any imagination or quest for a utopia in Eastern architecture. The "Street of Utopia" aims to find out why we have no such concept of the ideal city and where this idea should come from. It also raises the question of whether we are too timid to believe in an ideal future, or whether we are so oppressed by power and the reality of our situations that we can only resign ourselves to accept what we see around us.

The "Street of Cloud" is the last of the seven streets. The concept for this street is novel. The displays are hung from the ceiling far from the ground. This is designed to cause us to think about whether we can control our existence, as so much of our world and our universe is above us and out of our reach.