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Design for Life: From Everyday Objects to Robotics
This discussion of contemporary design included graphic designer Kenya Hara, industrial designer Masamichi Udagawa, and Tatsuya Matsui, who designs humanoid robots. The panel was moderated by MoMA design curator Paola Antonelli.
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Image, Technology, and Tradition
Fumihiko Maki, winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1993 and founder of architecture firm Maki and Associates, discusses the relationship between technology and architecture.
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Design
Japanese Architecture: Past, Present & Future
Architectural historian Hiroyuki Suzuki discusses current plans to develop Tokyo, comparing them to the “rescue construction works” implemented by village heads and nobles in the Edo period.
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Design
The Role of Architecture in Contemporary Society
A panel on contemporary architecture including Jun Aoki, Jun Aoki and Associates, Kazuyo Sejima, Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA Ltd., and Richard Gluckman, Gluckman Mayner Architects, moderated by Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture, Columbia University.
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Design
The Characteristics & Perception of Space in Japan
A discussion about how space is perceived in Japan, including Sanford Kwinter, design theorist and Associate Professor of Architecture, Rice University, and Waro Kishi, Waro Kishi + K. Associates, moderated by Ken Tadashi Oshima, architectural historian, Sainsbury Institute Fellow, London.
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Design
Craftsmanship & the Use of Old & New Materials
A discussion of the importance of craft and materials, including Kengo Kuma, Kengo Kuma Associates and Terunobu Fujimori, Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, moderated by Clifford Pearson, Senior Editor, Architectural Record.
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Design, Popular Culture
Regarding Robot Cultures
Sabanovic examines the “nascent robotics culture," which relies on the possibility of companionship between humans and machines and brings up not only issues of machine capabilities but of human vulnerabilities and the ways that our lives change with the use of technology.
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Art, Design
Yumi Kori: Yumi Kori Builds with Light
Using the ephemeral and transcendental qualities of light, architect-artist Yumi Kori affects the way we see and feel the world. Her art installations and architecture challenge our conventional sense of space and the relationship of our physical “self” to the space around us.
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Business, Design
Blue LED Inventor Shuji Nakamura on Rewarding Innovators in Japan
October 21, 2004
Dr. Shuji Nakamura, creator of the blue laser diode and the blue, green and white light-emitting diodes (LED), explained why he finds the U.S. more conducive to innovation and Japan more conducive to manufacturing.
