Awareness, a subtle perception that precedes consciousness. The natural force guiding creation before the conscious intention to “create” emerges. An attempt to evoke experiences of nature in the act of creation.

Renowned lacquerware artist Senro Sato, leading Japanese photographer Takashi Honma, and other artists and psychologists working at the forefront of their fields propose “design that creates beauty and order from chaos.”

→DESIGN SCIENCE_03 Introduction to each dissertation

What can design do in this world that refuses to stop war?

Life and design, soft robotics, new nature created by computer media, well designed environment, the science of forms──. Writers, robot creators, computer scientists, designers, psychologists and others, including Takeshi Yoro and Banana Yoshimoto, review the “natural” ordinary life, and advocate “DESIGN x SCIENCE for Peace.”

→DESIGN SCIENCE_02 Introduction to each dissertation

 

The science is definite and reliable. The design is abstract, indefinite, and somehow magical and mysterious. What do we find when we consider design as a science? Top runners at the cutting edge of their fields, including designers, novelists, ecological psychologists, anthropologists, visual space directors, and psychiatrists vividly depicts the knowledge that emerges from "DESIGN x SCIENCE," which switches the world toward the beauty by launching the sensory organs of people's awareness and interest in the quality of daily life and the environmental world.

→DESIGN SCIENCE_01 Introduction to each dissertation