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trailer Hermit in the city The macro message behind Aki Inomata’s microcosms shelter is not a luxury for a tiny sea creature with the market, a dominant crab will move in, signalling continue to grow at a leisurely pace. inomata’s a soft abdomen; it’s essential. Japanese artist the queue of smaller crabs to shed their shells and tiny specimens did abandon their shells for her aki inomata examines this reality in her continuing trade up. this “vacancy chain” typically remains artificial constructs, at intervals prescribed by series of 3‑d‑printed epoxy resin shells designed peaceful, but, as in metropolises, competition can nature. Perhaps, at the current rate of urbanization, specifically for the hermit crab. her 14‑gram turn ugly in a frenzied market. it won’t be long before humans and hermit crabs abodes – micro‑cities crowned with such recog‑ inomata’s urban centres–cum–crab shells end up competing for the same tiny piece of real nizable edifices as new york high‑rises, Parisian suggest that our vacancy chains may be broken. estate. the crab, don’t forget, has claws. Photo by aki inomata courtesy of ai kowada gallery apartments and tokyo houses – question the rate no big, new uninhabited spaces are coming into at which humans build and swap homes. existence to trigger a natural trading up. instead, Andrew Braithwaite, a contributing editor with contrary to the name, hermit crabs are social we have the development of mini‑apartments, azure, has tried on nine different cities over creatures; some species live in colonies 100 strong. with humans cramming themselves into tighter the past decade. He now lives in San Francisco. as they grow, they require larger shells, and when quarters just to live in the city. meanwhile, as we a new dwelling – typically a snail shell – comes on race to shrink our urban dwellings, crustaceans 102 nov ⁄ dec 2013 azuremagazine.com

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