Gardening as resistance in Japanese internment camps

Jesse Kuroiwa, director of the Visual Resource Center (VRC) and lecturer in the College of Architecture and Planning (CAP) at CU Denver, is investigating the lives and treatment of Japanese immigrants in the United States during World War II and how they expressed their culture through gardening. As a Japanese American whose grandfather immigrated to the U.S., Kuroiwa draws on his personal history and academic interests. His work in both landscape architecture and architecture led him to explore gaimenteki doka, a Japanese tradition of conforming outwardly, while quietly preserving their cultural identity.