Gen Kukita

Gen Kukita is a geospatial technologist and community organizer involved in the Cesium ecosystem in Japan. He explores projects at the intersection of geospatial technologies, cultural memory, and digital storytelling. His current work maps narrative scenes from Keiji Nakazawa’s Barefoot Gen onto real locations in Hiroshima using open geospatial tools such as CesiumJS and open map data.


Session

09-02
14:30
30min
Mapping the Distance to History: Reading Barefoot Gen on a Map with Open Geospatial Tools
Gen Kukita

An experimental CesiumJS project that reconnects scenes from Barefoot Gen to real locations in Hiroshima, using historical maps and open geospatial data to explore spatial storytelling, cultural memory, and how narrative can be read through geographic space.

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