About TDW2012

Creative & Technology
TOKYO DESIGNERS WEEK 2012

TOKYO DESIGNERS WEEK 2012 is held for 10 days based on Creativity & Technology, offering a place to showcase artists’ sensibility.

This year’s themes are ”HOUSE” and “PLAY”.

Companies, designers, students, and organizations exhibit works using creativity and technology according to the themes. In addition, the contents are expanded to include Professional Exhibition by industry leading artists of each discipline. There are some other contents including the Container Exhibition celebrating its 10th year, uses recycled Cargo Containers, Student Exhibition of 15 divisions this year, 30m diameter multipurpose dome “TDW Dome” and modern art exhibition “TDW Art” and a gateway for young designers, “Young creators exhibition”, music performance and workshops.

TDW2012 Show Designer
Sou Fujimoto (Architect)

Born in 1971 Hokkaido. After graduating from the faculty of architecture at the University of Tokyo, he founded Sousuke Fujimoto architect's office in 2000. Starting with 2005, he won AR award which is an international gateway for young architects for three consecutive years, and was captured in the spotlight suddenly. In 2008, he won JIA Japanese architecture grand-prix, and the best prize for the individual housing section of World Architectural Festival. In 2009, he won wallpaper* magazine’s Design Awards 2009. And in 2010, he was awarded Spotlight: The Rice Design Alliance Prize. In 2011, he won best prize for the international design competition with his works "Beton Hala waterfront center" and the "Taiwan tower."
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TDW2012 Theme "HOUSE" "PLAY"

HOUSE

Excellent design and art enrich our lives. What gives us shelter in our lives is a “HOUSE”. We believe this theme is suitable for this year’s TDW promoting “creative and technology” closely linked with all industries. Through development in technology, and creativity our lifestyles are evolving as well. When you intertwine technology and creativity intertwine, new possibilities arise.

PLAY

Kansei (Sensibility)" is a slogan set up by TDW. We believe it’s important to incorporate “playfulness” into our daily lives in order to foster creative ideas. We are thinking of ways to cultivate such sensibility using power of design and art.

Venues

Architect Sou Fujimoto was appointed as the creative director to design the exhibition site. The exhibition site consists of tents connected in the shape of a circle, where an open space is built in the middle. Containers and School Exhibition works are arranged in a radial manner in the open space creating a unified and lively feel of the event.

Tent Exhibition

TOKYO DESIGNERS WEEK’s main content is the “TENT exhibition.” The TENT exhibition of TDW, which 100,000 people with high sensitivity and users of quality information gather, is a place for the promotion of various companies and the products for B to B to C. Visitors are not only manufactures and buyers with business opportunities, people in the design industries but also high sensitivity consumers who can become incubators and various media. It’s an international creative marketing event with two faces. One is “Business to Business” with business opportunities, and the other is “Business to Consumer” with where you can meet the real life trend setter.

Container Exhibition

A unique venue by TDW that utilizes cargo containers, the Container Exhibition is highly popular.It aims to brand and promotes through completed independent and individualistic space of containers. Moreover, visitors are charmed by the exhibition, which is possible only here at TDW, such as the interactive art of where people can participate, colorful special installation and the media art which made full use of projectors. Celebrating its 10thyear, this year we plan to organize special exhibition by industry leading designers, new pricing etc to make it the best ever.

School Exhibition Plus

At Student Exhibition, we have exhibited works of more than 6000 groups of students so far. Celebrating its 11thyear, it has grown to become part of a major content of Tokyo Designers Week. This year, the name of the exhibition is changed from Student Exhibition to School Exhibition. The change in name is aimed to raise student’s team school spirits, faculty members, or projects to encourageteachers to work closely with students that provide guidance and raise the quality of the exhibition. Moreover, we expanded the genre to 15 divisions, also adding a workshop as a new outlet for exhibition. Also, celebrating its 11thyear, for the first time we plan the exhibition to be supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The exhibition not only offers a place for students from all over Japan, but from the world as well. Encouraging social and cultural exchange beyond genres and school but also a place to showcase artworks of talented students of each industry and to promote the creativity of students to the world.

TDW DOME

The symbol of TDW; The TDW DOME comes in three different sizes this year. 90 feet (30 meter diameter), 44 feet and 36 feet. The domes will hold music events, forums and award ceremonies. The 90 feet dome can hold 400 seats or 1200 people standing.The 44 feet and 36 feet domes can be used as special exhibition spaces for companies and designers.

TDW ART