Tokyo | Design Indaba

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. >
#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 >
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. >
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. >
Experimental food design studio introduces 3D-printed sushi

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

Playful interventionist and design researcher

Playful interventionist and design researcher. >
South Africa meets Japan while design meets culture

“Ultimately, we believe that our uniqueness does not come from specific elements of African or Asian cultures, it just stems from us." >
Yami-Ichi disrupts how the price of art is valued

Here, money is powerless and instead the public is invited to barter skills, services and objects for a piece of art. >
Shoko Tamura on designing garments that amplify personal expression

The Keio University student says wearable technology could redefine the way people play in urban landscapes. >
Mateusz Urbanowicz’s Tokyo Storefront series

These delightful illustrations document the changing face of the Japanese capital. >
Michael Wolf photographs the world’s most uncomfortable commute

‘Tokyo Compression’ offers a new perspective of the Japanese city. >
Shoko Tamura

Speculative Designer

Shoko Tamura is a member of Daijiro Mizuno research laboratory at Keio University, Tokyo Japan, where she looks at speculative design and the human mind. >
Tracing the origins of Pokémon Go

Pokémon Go, the product of American software developers Niantic and The Pokémon Company of Japan, is the love child of GPS tech and insect hunting. >
Sou Fujimoto on multi-layered and conceptual architecture

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto’s philosophical body of work explores architecture that doesn’t dictate any particular behaviour to its users. >
Kazuya Kawasaki on biohacking the fashion industry

Speculative designer and Keio University student Kazuya Kawasaki grows new materials for the fashion industry. >
Sou Fujimoto: The infinite possibilities of open field architecture

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto talks about how architecture should create spaces for people to behave as they would like to. >
Japan’s invisible trains will take off in 2018

Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima designs trains with a reflective surface that mirrors the surrounding scenery. >
Electric fork simulates salty taste in food

Japanese researcher develops a fork that adds a salty taste to sodium-free food. >
High-tech repository for the dead

Ruri Den is an alternative to burial sites for space-starved cities like Tokyo >

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