Designing
the Future
from the Frontier
We are alternative design consultant.
Our main field is a small village in the most advanced population decline and aging area.
We are interested in
+ Traditions and values nurtured by the local climate + Sustainable economic, environmental, and social systems
+ Social systems and technologies in an era of declining population
+ The role and significance of community
+ What is a landscape where nature and humans coexist?
+ What is a diverse society?
+ What is work? What is living? What is living?
・・・and we create and explore future landscapes
1. from the essential question
2. imagine the future
3. refine local resources
4. repeatedly develop and implement designs
5. reinvest the results in the communit
Organize the issue background and the process of occurrence in a multi-layered manner,
Explore solutions to increase future options
Landscape architects' design process/design thinking is the core of our work. We creatively discover, investigate, analyze, and organize issues, and create and implement ideas.
Designing in the edge between nature and culture
Nested structure-like Evaluation Criteria
The environment that surrounds us - nature and people, communities and regions, individuals and companies, nations and the world - is becoming more complex and ever-changing in its relationships with various entities, solutions are becoming harder to find, and the worries and sense of anxiety individuals have about the future are becoming greater. We believe that this is due to the fact that the social operating systems of the previous era have become dysfunctional, and that we have forgotten the principles of action to create our own future, without developing the mindset and working methods to break through the fear of facing challenges. Based on the process and design thinking of landscape design, which has been developed as a means to solve many problems that have spilled over from the illusion of a highly developed civilized society, we are developing human resources and run a business that can break through the complex challenges of today while setting evaluation criteria for the environment that future generations will demand. We will nurture a "Country Creative Class" that is capable of generating ideas, and can keep thinking as they run.
Fractal Structural Proliferation
We believe that models grounded in the laws of nature proliferate through fractal structures. In the natural world, the principle embedded in the smallest unit shapes the whole. Like branching trees or river networks, local relationships expand outward and gradually form broader fields.
In the same way, the reconstruction of society and regions may be better approached not through large-scale institutional frameworks, but through the redesign of the smallest unit. That smallest unit is the settlement.
A settlement is an ecological unit in which the cycles of land and water, systems of livelihood, communal relationships, spiritual culture, and connections to the outside world overlap. What matters is not the preservation of form, but the extraction of its structural principles and their regeneration through contemporary knowledge and technology.
At the same time, we believe that the conditions enabling creative individuals to thrive also proliferate fractally. By establishing multiple hubs where creators can fully exercise their potential and connecting them through networks, similar structures begin to emerge around them, gradually expanding outward into broader fields.
Small hubs become points, points become lines, and lines become planes.
This is the proliferation of principles.
Beginning with the settlement is not a return to the past.
It is an attempt to redesign both sustainable society and creative ecosystems from their most fundamental scale.
Project
Art center / Artist in residence
NIAV
Nishiaizu International Art Village
Landscape Design
Narayama Planetary Village
Immersive theatrical art tour
The Tales of the Land and
Culture of Narayama
令和3年度文化庁「文化資源の高付加価値化促進事業」
Old Folk House Hotel
NIPPONIA Narayama Village
2021 The 37th Fukushima Architectural Culture Award Special Category Award
Immersive theatrical art tourism
ARCHIVE of The Tales of the Land andCulture of Narayama
The Tales of the Land and Culture of Narayama 2022
Art Project
Kusaki wo Matotte Yama no Kamisama
I am flower project
Regional revitalization Consultation
Shimizu Landscape
Revitalization Strategy
in Aridagawa, Wkayama
Gallery
Project GAMOKAN
Local Branding / Web Design
GO-institute
2019 GOOD DESIGN AWARD
Art Project Coordination
Ark of the Forest Art Projcet
in Nishiaizu
Life style design in Nishiaizu
LIFE WITH NISHIAIZU
Immersive theatrical tour
Night on the Galactic Railroad
international cultural relationship
TAIWAN x Nishiaizu
Cultural Exchange with Taiwan
Artist in Residence Program
KATSURAO COLLECTIVE
Advice
Ikebana Workshop
Atsunobu Katagiri Ikebana Workshop in Nishiaizu
host
Branding & Design
Logo design
mont-bell × Mt.Bandai
Regional Branding
Traditional Countryside in Japan, Nishiaizu
Local Branding & Design
Regional Branding / Design
Beijumai no Sato
esse hometown tax grand prix 2022
Excellence Award
Coordination & Cooperation
Local entrepreneurship Program
Next Commons Lab. Nishiaizu
New perspective for snow shoveling
Japan Joce-Xercise Association
music event produce
Nfes
articles & interview
art review writing
frieze
interviewed in design magazine
d design travel
contact
BOOT
incorporated association
Director Yoshihiro Yabe
2022 The37 th Fukushima Architectural Culture Award Special Category Award「NIPPONIA Naryama Village」
2021 The 11th Regional Revitalization Award Hokkaido Tohoku Block Award
2019 Good Design Award「GO-institute」
2018 IBARAKI Design selection 2018 「Hoshiimo Granola」
