Interviews
Mei Tanaka
Osaka
Mei interviews craftspeople, archivists and repairers across East Asia and Europe.
She records every conversation on the same cassette recorder her grandfather used for radio plays.
Stories
Repair
The Last Watchmaker on Nieuwe Binnenweg
Mei Tanaka talks to Joop Hendriks about fifty-two years at the bench and the parts nobody makes anymore.
Night Shift
Flour Before Dawn
A baker on why she has not seen a sunrise from outside in nine years — and why she does not mind.
Borrowed
The Seed Librarian
Mei Tanaka meets the woman who lends tomatoes, beans and marigolds from a drawer in the public library, and asks only that you bring some back.
Noise
The Man Who Maps Silence
An acoustic engineer spends his weekends recording the quietest places in the city. Mei Tanaka asks him where they are.