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December 11, 2014
AAF | Reiko Sudo x Kenmei Nagaoka x Takahiro Hiranuma "D&DEPARTMENT x AAF Joint Project: Sequential Talk Event VOL.7"
AAF Dispatch | D&DEPARTMENT x AAF Joint Project
Sequential Talk Event VOL.7
Reiko Sudo x Kenmei Nagaoka x Kohki Hiranuma
The NPO AAF (Art & Architect Festa), dedicated to advancing social environments through architecture and art, will host the seventh installment of its ongoing talk event series, a joint project with the design and recycling shop "D&DEPARTMENT," at the D&DEPARTMENT Osaka store.
Text by IWANAGA Morito（OPENERS）
Textile Designer Reiko Sudo Appears
In this talk event, architect Kohki Hiranuma will moderate, while designer Kenmei Nagaoka engages in conversation with the guest. The series aims to foster discussions on what each speaker feels is relevant "now" in their respective fields, offering a cross-disciplinary perspective on design.
Following the "Fashion Designer Edition" from two events ago, this installment, "Fashion Textile Designer Edition," welcomes textile designer Reiko Sudo as the guest.
At NUNO Corporation, where Ms. Sudo serves as a director, textiles are created using everything from traditional Japanese dyeing and weaving techniques to cutting-edge modern technology. With most products manufactured in domestic factories, the textiles, which fully leverage their technical prowess and potential, possess an artistic quality.
This series, which finds common ground across diverse design fields such as architecture, product design, and textiles, also highlights their distinct differences. Following the talk, a reception with an opportunity for participants to mingle will be held. It will be a chance to share, up close, the "now" felt by designers active on the front lines.
Reiko Sudo
Textile designer. Born in Ibaraki Prefecture. After serving as an assistant in the Textile Research Laboratory at Musashino Art University's Department of Crafts and Industrial Design, she participated in the establishment of NUNO Corporation. Currently, she is the Director and Design Director. She is also a professor at Tokyo University of the Arts. She has received numerous awards, including the Mainichi Design Award, the Roscoe Award, and the JID Grand Prix. She was awarded an honorary Master's degree from the University of the Creative Arts in the UK. Her works are highly acclaimed both domestically and internationally and are permanently preserved in the collections of major museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Victoria and Albert Museum; and The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Her recent notable work includes textile design for the Mandarin Oriental Tokyo.
Kenmei Nagaoka
Representative Director and Chairman of D&DEPARTMENT PROJECT, and Editor-in-Chief of d design travel. Born in Hokkaido in 1965. After working at the Hara Design Institute of Nippon Design Center, he launched "D&DEPARTMENT PROJECT" in 2000, a new retail concept in Setagaya, Tokyo, envisioned as an infrastructure for long-life design. Concurrently, he began producing the travel magazine "d design travel," written from a designer's perspective, covering all 47 prefectures of Japan. Since 2011, he has been directing the "8/" floor at Shibuya Hikarie, where he also opened "d47," the project's central hub, encompassing a store, museum, and restaurant.
Kohki Hiranuma
Architect. Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1971. His notable architectural works include the conversion of the "D&DEPARTMENT PROJECT" store and the "University of Tokyo Air and Space Research Laboratory," an environmentally conscious building designed for the Komaba Campus of the University of Tokyo in 2008. His experimental design proposals in conceptual works have garnered significant international acclaim. He has received over 70 awards in more than 10 countries, including the Architectural Institute of Japan Prize, the AIJ Prize for Excellence in Design, the Grand Design International Architecture Award (UK), and the Innovative Architecture International Award (Italy). He currently lectures at Osaka University and other institutions.
D&DEPARTMENT x AAF Lecture Series
Sequential Talk Event Vol. 7: "Fashion Textile Designer Edition"
Date | February 28 (Thursday)
Time | Doors open 18:30 / Start 19:00 / End 20:30
Reception | 20:30–21:30
Admission | 1000 yen
Capacity | 60 people
Application | Register via webpage http://www.d.aaf.ac
Venue | D&DEPARTMENT PROJECT OSAKA 4F
2-9-14 Minami-Horie, Nishi-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka
Tel. 06-4391-2090
http://www.d-department.com/jp/shop/osaka
Sponsorship | YKK Fastening Products Sales Co., Ltd.
NPO Art & Architect Festa
http://www.aaf.ac