We are pleased to announce that "Kurasuwa no Mori", "Sona Area Tokyo Renewal Project", and "Gas Pavilion Obake Wonderland", which we helped create, received the "Kids Design Award" at the 19th Kids Design Awards (sponsored by the Kids Design Council, a non-profit organization).
Kids Design Award is an award system that recognizes all products, services, spaces, activities, and research that consider children and the birth and upbringing of children. It consists of three categories: "Design that contributes to the safety and security of children," "Design that develops children's creativity and future," and "Design that makes it easy to give birth and raise children." Our company's entry in the "Design that develops children's creativity and future" category is evaluated on designs that help develop children's creativity and sensibilities, help them acquire diverse knowledge, and improve their motor skills, as well as designs that incorporate new ideas, ingenuity, and methods.
We would like to thank our customers for giving us this opportunity, as well as everyone who helped us along the way.
Going forward, we will continue to keep in mind the perspective of those who will use the space and work to create rich spaces that can contribute to our customers' businesses.
Kids Design Award
"Kurasuwa Forest"
(Design Category: Fostering Children's Creativity and Future)
This is an experiential complex for Yomeishu Seizo's lifestyle brand, Kurasuwa. It was built in the forests of Komagane, Nagano Prefecture, to mark the company's 100th anniversary, with the desire to once again widely disseminate Kurasuwa's vision of a healthy lifestyle.
We created the idea of "Kurasuwa" as a delicious, fun and healthy experience, placing importance on creating a facility environment where visitors can experience nature and the changing seasons with all five senses, as well as universal and safe design that can be enjoyed by all who visit.
YOMEISHU SEIZO CO., LTD.
Overall facility and Merchandising Planning: Watanabe Masato, Nakayama Mayu, Moriyasu Tomoki / Creative and Art Direction: Uegauchi Taisuke /
Design, Layout: Uegauchi Taisuke, Tachikawa Miwa, TAAO Aida Michihisa / Production, Construction: Tsutsumi Masahiko, Nishino Mitsutoshi, Okumura Noriki /
Audio guide app: Shinya Nayuki / Project Management: Kota Nakamura, Dai Hayashi
Our Projects
"Kurasuwa Forest" - Enjoying the rich forest and spreading the circle of healthy living -
"Sona Area Tokyo Renewal Project"
(Design category: Opening up children's creativity and the future)
This is a renovation plan for Sona Area Tokyo, a national disaster prevention facility located in Ariake, Tokyo. As a national facility, it incorporates the idea of diversity in disaster prevention, providing disaster prevention information tailored to each individual's characteristics that reflects the voices of victims of past disasters, and is characterized by the ability to learn about "the necessary preparations tailored to each individual's characteristics." It also includes information on characteristics related to children and child-rearing, such as "elementary school students," "both parents working," and "pregnant."
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (primary contractor: Nippon Koei Urban Space Co., Ltd.)
Direction: Ishikawa Takahiro / Design: Kaneko Hanae / Planning: Chiba Kanako, Kumagai Mayuko
"Gas Pavilion Ghost Wonderland"
(Design category: Opening up children's creativity and the future)
The Japan Gas Association will be exhibiting a pavilion at the Osaka-Kansai Expo. The concept is "Transform into the future!" To realize a carbon-neutral society, the pavilion will teach the children who will be responsible for the future the importance of "changing our awareness and actions = transforming." It is an "educational entertainment facility" where visitors can learn about environmental issues and new energy sources in an easy-to-understand way.
Japan Gas Association
[Our representative]
Design Direction: Ikeda Masaki / Design, Layout: Ando Kensuke / Display Planning: Higashinakagawa Hanako, Chiba Kanako, Kobayashi Isamu, Sato Takuto /
Production, Construction: Iku Namatame / Project Management: Hiroyasu Maruyama, Reimi Kishida
Our Projects
About the Kids Design Awards
Kids Design Award was established in 2007 with the aim of selecting and widely disseminating to society outstanding works from among products, spaces, services, activities and research that fulfill the objectives of "ensuring a safe life for children," "enabling children to grow up with rich sensibility and creativity," and "creating a society in which it is easy to have and raise children." Any design that takes children and parenting into consideration, including designs developed for adults and the general public, is eligible.
https://kidsdesignaward.jp/
Please note that this may be subject to change without prior notice.