Japan | Design Indaba

A New Dawn

The Netherlands Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka aims to establish Common Ground >
The How We Feel project

How We Feel is a non-profit initiative, dedicated to helping people de-stress and reconnect >
Adam Apple

Innovative and sustainable leather alternative from apple waste >
Building social bonds

Riken Yamamoto is the 53rd Pritzker Prize laureate. >
City in a city

This redesigned Tokyo district is a modern urban village. >
Caring home

A daycare centre in Japan plays a unique community role. >
Outer peace

Design Indaba Alumnus Shigeru Ban designs a wellness retreat on Japan’s Awaji Island >
Igloo eatery

Japan’s Kamakura Village pop-up eatery serves traditional fare in icy igloos for one month a year >
I, Robot

Robot Café run remotely by differently abled workers wins top Japanese design award >
No Waste Challenge winner, R creates sustainable conversations in Japan

R approaches sustainability holistically with its multiple sub-projects >
#DI Alumni Yuri Suzuki and Harry Pearce create anti-discrimination campaign ID for #WeThe15

#WeThe15 highlights how 15% of the global population lives with disability >
A Gold Medal for design at the Tokyo Olympics

Some of the greatest moments of the Tokyo Olympics will prove to be design-related >
A changing landscape

This week: Design takes Gold in Tokyo; the war on waste; and artists changing norms… >
Pavilion Tokyo 2021 is a public arts intervention featuring former #DI Speaker Sou Fujimoto

Sou Fujimoto’s whimsical Cloud Pavilion adds visual poetry to urban Tokyo >
No Waste Challenge winners announced!

Sixteen global waste-busters awarded top honours by What Design Can Do. >
Nendo’s Oki Sato’s N02 Chair Embodies the Future-Forward Ethos of Fritz Hansen

A “Japandi” triumph, the Fritz Hansen N02 is made of recycled household waste. >
Celebrating the sport of basketball with artist Victor Solomon

From his “literally balling line”, artist Victor Solomon has created a new interactive Japanese Kintsugi basketball court to celebrate sport and the positivity >
Kinya Tagawa

Design engineer

Kinya Tagawa is Japanese award-winning design engineer. >
Kinya Tagawa on threading humanity into the tech world

The Japanese designer and engineer will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020. >
Biodesign, tech and the future of sustainable fashion

We look at some of the designers working at the intersection of technology, biology and fashion to make more sustainable garments. >
Kye Shimizu is coding to fix the wasteful fashion industry

His project Algorithmic Couture merges tradition and technology to produce zero-waste garments. >
Could flies be used to treat rare diseases?

Experimental designer Frank Kolkman puts the treatment of rare conditions into the hands of those afflicted. >
What will food look like in the future, especially for the elderly

Himori Kimoto believes dignity and play should form a big part of the way we design our future meals. >
Kye Shimizu

Designer

A designer who works closely with researchers and designers to inquire upon the relationships of real and virtual, analog and digital. >

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