Japan | Design Indaba

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. >
SenSprout is helping farmers better understand their crops while saving water

SenSprout’s aim is to grant farmers a better understanding of how their crops consume water without using expensive technology. >
The designer of the Street Debater on fostering human connection through design

“I realised that Street Debating not only addresses the problem of begging but something much bigger. It’s addressing the problem of social segregation.” >
Experimental food design studio introduces 3D-printed sushi

Open Meals imagines a future of generating, combining and printing food from anywhere in the world. >

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