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21_21 Design Sight - Past Events

Below is a list of all past events for 21_21 Design Sight. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.

Long Life Design 2020
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- Media: Product
- 2020-10-30 - 2020-11-08
The Good Design Long Life Design Award honors designs that have been highly popular with users for many years and are expected to continue providing value. This exhibition introduces the newest award-winning...More »
Mechanical Wonders
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- Media: Media Arts
- 2020-03-26 - 2020-04-01
*21_21 DESIGN SIGHT is temporary closed for the prevention of the further spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). *The opening of exhibition “Mechanical Wonders” will be postponed. Please visit the...More »
Hacoa Exhibition & Shop “Grace of Tree - Woodworking and Chocolate”
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- Media: Graphics - Product - Crafts
- 2020-02-01 - 2020-02-14
An original woodwork brand, Hacoa was born in Sabae City, Fukui Prefecture, a region that has produced renowned Echizen Lacquerware for more than 1500 years. As traditional handicraft production continues...More »
Secret Source of Inspiration: Designers’ Hidden Sketches and Mockups
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- Media: Product
- 2019-11-22 - 2020-09-22
*21_21 DESIGN SIGHT is temporary closed for the prevention of the further spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). This program will be reopened on June 1, 2020, by reservation only. Director Kinya...More »
Long Life Design 2019
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- Media: Graphics - Installation - Product - Video and Film
- 2019-10-31 - 2019-11-04
The Long Life Design Award is given to designs that have been widely endorsed for many years and which will continue to stand the test of time as part of the daily scene. It is an internationally unique...More »
Google Design Studio | Comma
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- Media: Graphics - Installation - Product
- 2019-10-21 - 2019-10-27
A contemplative installation curated by trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort, exploring how technology is seamlessly integrated into our homes. These still lifes are composed of everyday objects, calming...More »
Tuku Iho Living Legacy
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- Media: Sculpture - Crafts - Performance Art
- 2019-08-01 - 2019-08-31
Tuku Iho | Living Legacy combines traditional and contemporary Māori artworks with kapa haka and contemporary music performance. The taonga (treasures) on display include more than 50 Māori art pieces...More »
Insects: Models for Design
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Architecture - Sculpture - Installation
- 2019-07-19 - 2019-11-04
Graphic designer Taku Satoh is exhibition director, and Takeshi Yoro, an anatomist known as an insect lover, is exhibition supervisor. Insects are a reflection of the natural world. Although they are always...More »
Pop-Up Shop Fukunaga Print x 21_21
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- Media: Product - Crafts
- 2019-04-10 - 2019-04-22
Fukunaga Print Co., Ltd. was established in Tachikawa 55 years ago and covers a wide range of paper production methods from printing to processing. Since 2006, Fukunaga Print has worked with various designers,...More »
Sense Of Humor
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- Media: Graphics - Illustration - Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Product - Media Arts
- 2019-03-15 - 2019-06-30
To art director Katsuhiko Asaba, who has encountered many people and things in his journeys around the world, humor in one of most important senses in communication. Asaba has spent years tickling the...More »
Mingu
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- Media: Crafts
- 2018-12-14 - 2019-01-14
In conjunction with the exhibition “Mingei – Another Kind of Art” currently held at Gallery 1 & 2, the “Mingu” exhibition will be held at Gallery 3. Mingu is a term coined by Keizo Shibusawa in the...More »
Mingei – Another Kind of Art
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- Media: Product - Crafts - Ceramics - Party
- 2018-11-02 - 2019-02-24
The exhibition will feature over 150 traditional and contemporary “mingei” folk-craft items, primarily from the Japan Folk Crafts Museum’s collection, selected by Naoto Fukasawa, the director of both 21_21...More »
Chisato Tsumori “Waku Work”
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- Media: Fashion
- 2018-10-06 - 2018-10-24
This exhibition for Chisato Tsumori, designer of the fashion brand Tsumori Chisato, introduces her collection archives, collaborative items, and original illustrations. Also, “I.S. Chisato Tsumori Design!,”...More »
Hiroshima Appeals Exhibition
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- Media: Graphics - Illustration
- 2018-08-04 - 2018-09-02
“Hiroshima Appeals” is a poster series produced by the Japan Graphic Designers Association Inc. (JAGDA), the Hiroshima Peace Creation Fund, and the Hiroshima International Cultural Foundation to keep the...More »
Audio Architecture: The Architecture of Sound
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- Media: Graphics - Illustration - Architecture - Animation - Media Arts - Sound - Performance Art
- 2018-06-29 - 2018-10-14
This exhibition, under the direction of Yugo Nakamura- renown for his work in web, interface, and video- will feature video work by nine artists and groups interpreting musician Keigo Koyamada’s (Cornelius)...More »
Patrick Roger “Travels Travel(ler)”
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- Media: Sculpture
- 2018-06-02 - 2018-07-02
Patrick Roger, awarded the title of Meilleur Ouvrier de France(MOF), the highest honor for a chocolatier, is an artist as well. His first exhibition in Japan, curated and designed by the architect Lina...More »
Khadi the Fabric of India’s Tomorrow: Homage to Martand Singh
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- Media: Product - Fashion - Crafts
- 2018-04-18 - 2018-05-13
India is a country that continues to cherish today the techniques, history, and culture of handcraft inherited from over the generations, all of which is manifested in its people’s simple, beautiful lifestyle...More »
thinking tools. Design as Process - On the Creation of Writing Utensils
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- Media: Drawing - Installation - Product - Talks
- 2018-03-03 - 2018-04-08
This exhibition initiated and sponsored by Lamy, the leading writing tool manufacturer from Germany, provides insights into the writing tool design process. It is supplemented by drawings and installations...More »
New Planet Photo City - William Klein and Photographers Living in the 22nd Century
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- Media: Photography
- 2018-02-23 - 2018-06-10
It will soon be two centuries since photography was invented and an astronomical number of photos have been produced in this period of nearly 200 years. Along with innovations in technology and networks,...More »
Yuima Nakazato “Harmonize”
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- Media: Fashion
- 2018-02-21 - 2018-02-25
“Eventually, each and every garment will be unique and different.” This is what Yuima Nakazato envisions as the future of mankind. Based on this vision, Nakazato has developed an innovative method to manufacture...More »
FIN/100
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- Media: Product - Fashion
- 2017-12-06 - 2017-12-25
In 2017, Finland celebrates 100 years as an independent nation with continuous democracy. To commemorate the centenary, Artek, Iittala/ARABIA, Johanna Gullichsen, Kauniste Finland, LUMI, Lapuan Kankurit...More »
Discovery in Process - Selected Works
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- Media: Product - Fashion - Talks
- 2017-12-02 - 2017-12-03
“Discovery in Process,” part of the 21_21 Design Sight Gallery 3 exchange program, is a collaboration event that will present fashion and textile works produced by MA fashion design students of the Department...More »
Loewe International Craft Prize
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- Media: Sculpture - Product - Fashion - Crafts - Ceramics
- 2017-11-16 - 2017-11-30
Gallery 21_21 Design Sight displays works by 26 nominees featured in the first edition of the Loewe Craft Prize. This is the third of three touring exhibitions showcasing the merits of modern craftsmanship....More »
Tokujin Yoshioka Glass Project
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- Media: Architecture - Sculpture - Installation - Product
- 2017-11-02 - 2017-11-13
With his poetic, experimental and nature-inspired works, Tokujin Yoshioka is a designer renowned in the international design, architecture, and contemporary art scenes. His work continues to impact his...More »
Wild: Untamed Mind
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- Media: Illustration - Manga - Photography - Sculpture
- 2017-10-20 - 2018-02-04
The base of our culture and life lies in the “untamed mind.” This mind affects both human instinct and intellect, and it is the trigger and stimulant for creativity. What does the “untamed mind” mean...More »
Tadao Ando Construction Site of 21_21 ‘A Hard-Fought Process’
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- Media: Drawing - Photography - Architecture - Video and Film
- 2017-10-07 - 2017-10-28
This is a program linked to the 10th Anniversary of the National Art Center, Tokyo exhibition, “Tadao Ando: Endeavors.” 21_21 Design Sight opened in 2007, with its building designed by Tadao Ando. The...More »
Grand Projects: How Far Will You Go?
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Architecture - Video and Film
- 2017-06-23 - 2017-10-01
Filled with the joy of making things, creators proceed on a journey toward a Grand Project. The exhibition will showcase Grand Projects by such creators who give shape to their bold and innovative ideas...More »
Stretch! Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2017-05-30 - 2017-06-04
At Gallery 3 “STRETCH! Exhibition - TOREX Primeflex -” highlights the worldview and special features of synthetic fiber manufacturer Toray’s stretch textile, Primeflex. Exploring concepts such as the...More »
Ugoku : Work In Progress
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- Media: Product
- 2017-05-25 - 2017-05-26
At Gallery 3 In the context of a collaboration with mobile brand tempo (mother tool) based in Ashikaga City, Tochigi Prefecture, 2nd year Bachelor Industrial Design students from ECAL will exhibit a “work...More »
Athlete
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- Media: Product - Fashion - Video and Film
- 2017-02-17 - 2017-06-04
Athletes are constantly training, pushing and exceeding their own limits through trial and error. The dynamic, superhuman performances of athletes, which are born of numerous efforts and a continual challenge...More »
Design Anatomy Exhibition― A Method for Seeing the World through Familiar Objects
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- Media: Graphics
- 2016-10-14 - 2017-01-22
In our everyday lives we are surrounded by countless products. These mass-produced objects blend in almost seamlessly with our lifestyles to the point that we rarely take a careful look at them — they...More »
Doboku - Civil Engineering
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- Media: Architecture - Sculpture - Installation - Product
- 2016-06-24 - 2016-09-25
Doboku, civil engineering, is the foundation for designing an entire town to support comfortable, high-quality life. It comprises things indispensable to our daily lives, such as roads, railroads and other...More »
Zakka –Goods and Things
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- 2016-02-26 - 2016-06-05
There are a great many things in our everyday lives that fall under the term zakka, which is generally rendered in English as “sundries” or “miscellaneous goods.” While all these zakka are quite familiar...More »
“Architect Frank Gehry ‘I Have an Idea’”
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- Media: Drawing - Architecture - Sculpture - Installation - Product - Video and Film
- 2015-10-16 - 2016-02-07
World-renowned architect Frank Gehry has spent over half a century upending architectural norms and defying expectations. His works span from the stunning Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao to the attention-getting...More »
Motion Science
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- Media: Graphics - Sculpture - Installation - Video and Film - Media Arts
- 2015-06-19 - 2015-09-27
“Motion Science” will showcase the works of many world-renowned media artists for the first time in Japan, whilst also introducing a wide variety of “moving” works created by up-and-coming creators. Visitors...More »
“Measuring: This Much, That Much, How Much?”
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- Media: Graphics - Photography - Sculpture - Video and Film
- 2015-02-20 - 2015-05-31
This exhibition aims to illustrate the types of units that are used to measure a great variety of things and phenomenon, and to give them a sense of familiarity that they may not already have. Here perspectives...More »
The Fab Mind - Hints of the Future in a Shifting World -
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- Media: Graphics - Photography - Product - Video and Film - Talks
- 2014-10-24 - 2015-02-01
The information revolution of the latter half of the twentieth century reduced the distance between countries and cultures, and our lifestyles and the way we view our day-to-day existence have undergone...More »
Image-Makers
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- Media: Graphics - Photography
- 2014-07-04 - 2014-10-05
With Hélène Kelmachter, a curator and expert on Japan-France cultural exchange as its director, this exhibition draws together image-makers active across the world, revealing their extraordinarily visionary...More »
“Kome: The Art of Rice”
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- Media: Graphics - Product - Video and Film
- 2014-02-28 - 2014-06-15
“They are living things, they are delicate machines.” In the course of his own labors in cultivating rice, the poet Kenji Miyazawa succinctly captured the essence of rice with this phrase. In Japan, rice...More »
Toward A Design Museum Japan
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- Media: Installation - Talks
- 2013-10-25 - 2014-02-09
This exhibition reconstructs all of 21_21 Design Sight’s exhibitions, talks, workshops, and other events as a way of thinking about how to make a Japanese design museum a reality. In a search for Japan’s...More »
“Color-Hunting”
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- Media: Graphics - Photography - Installation - Video and Film
- 2013-06-21 - 2013-10-06
Sea, sky, trees, stars…the colors in the natural world are infinite. Yet so many of the colors that touch our lives in our everyday environments are man-made colors, predetermined by a color chart, leading...More »
"Design Ah!" Exhibition
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- Media: Graphics - Sculpture - Installation - Video and Film - Media Arts
- 2013-02-08 - 2013-06-02
Design is inseparable from human life; it’s something that blends naturally into our daily lives. That’s why it’s all the more important to think how we can cultivate a "design mind." The NHK educational...More »
"Ikko Tanaka and Future/Past/East/West of Design" Exhibition
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- Media: Graphics - Photography - Installation - Fashion - Video and Film
- 2012-09-21 - 2013-01-20
21_21 DESIGN SIGHT is pleased to announce the "Ikko Tanaka and Future/Past/East/West of Design" Exhibition starting September 21. Ikko Tanaka (1930-2002), one of Japan's most prominent figures in graphic...More »
"Tema Hima: The Art of Living in Tohoku" Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Crafts - Video and Film
- 2012-04-27 - 2012-08-26
This exhibition is a follow-up to last July's special program "The Spirit of Tohoku: 'Clothing' by Issey Miyake" held in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake. This exhibition will focus on the "foods...More »
"Irving Penn and Issey Miyake: Visual Dialogue" Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Fashion
- 2011-09-16 - 2012-04-08
21_21 DESIGN SIGHT is pleased to announce a new exhibition, "Irving Penn and Issey Miyake: Visual Dialogue," opening to the public on September 16, 2011. The exhibition will focus on the collaborative...More »
"The Spirit of Tohoku: Clothing by Issey Miyake" Exhibition
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- Media: Fashion - Crafts
- 2011-07-26 - 2011-07-31
21_21 DESIGN SIGHT will dedicate six days, beginning on July 26th to a special program focusing on culture as shaped by the people of the Tohoku region. In the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake,...More »
"Shiro Kuramata and Ettore Sottsass" Exhibition
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- Media: Product - Crafts
- 2011-02-02 - 2011-07-18
The exhibition features approximately 60 pieces of transparent and precious works created by Shiro Kuramata in the 10-year span from 1981, and approximately 20 never-seen-before art pieces based on Ettore...More »
"Reality Lab" Exhibition
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- Media: Installation - Product
- 2010-11-16 - 2010-12-26
The Japanese art of manufacturing, or of making things, is renowned worldwide for its precision. It is the fruit of an application of knowledge and experience, combined with handiwork and an aesthetic...More »
Masahiko Sato "The Definition of Self"
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- Media: Installation - Video and Film - Talks
- 2010-07-16 - 2010-11-03
In recent years, a number of individual-identifying technologies and measures have been developed rapidly, and are now used in a variety of contexts in our day-to-day life, to prevent crimes and also to...More »
"Post Fossil: Excavating 21st Century Creation" Exhibition
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- Media: Sculpture - Product
- 2010-04-24 - 2010-06-27
In the spirit of striving to be a “venue that will generate design that sees clearly what is ahead”, upon which 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT was founded, we will hold an exhibition titled “POST FOSSIL: excavating...More »
Christo and Jeanne-Claude Life=Works=Projects
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- Media: Drawing - Photography - Video and Film
- 2010-02-13 - 2010-04-06
Christo and Jeanne-Claude have wrapped the oldest bridge in Paris, the Pont-Neuf, with sparkling beige fabric, planted fields of blossoming yellow and blue umbrellas in the hills of California and countryside...More »
"The Outline: The Unseen Outline of Things" Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Product
- 2009-10-16 - 2010-01-31
Product designer Naoto Fukasawa unfailingly designs shapes to meet people's expectations. His unique efforts to determine the "outline of things" from people's unconscious are gathering attention worldwide....More »
"Tokyo Fiber '09 Senseware" Exhibition
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- Media: Installation - Product
- 2009-09-18 - 2009-09-27
Japan's artificial fibers are the new Senseware. Just as the material of stone inspired creativity in humans during the Stone Age and the medium of paper invited activity for expanding knowledge, such...More »
"Bones" Exhibition
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- Media: Installation - Product - Talks
- 2009-05-29 - 2009-08-30
Just as the history of the evolution of living beings over billions of years is hidden in each of the bones that support our bodies, there is also meaning encased within the "skeletons" (structure) of...More »
"U-Tsu-Wa" Exhibition
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- Media: Crafts - Ceramics - Talks
- 2009-02-13 - 2009-05-10
This three-person exhibition showcases the work of ceramic artists Lucie Rie and Jennifer Lee, and woodturning artist Ernst Gamperl. Lucie Rie greatly influenced the field of contemporary ceramics...More »
"SoCa 2008/ Design Lectures" Talk Event
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- Media: Talks
- 2008-10-30 - 2008-11-03
SoCa is a lecture event by designers and creators who are active both in Japan and abroad. Designers and professional creators in various fields will give lectures on the theme of lifestyle and technology...More »
"Second Nature" Exhibition
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- Media: Installation - Product
- 2008-10-17 - 2009-01-18
This exhibition offers an opportunity to once again ponder the future of design as well as the mysterious powers of nature which transcend the limits of the human imagination. Tokujin Yoshioka, director...More »
Katsumi Asaba "Whispered Prayers"
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- 2008-07-19 - 2008-09-23
Who left the first trace? When the sumerians engraved cuneiform letters onto clay tablets 5000 years ago, the thoughts and feelings, art and science of humanity were imbued with eternal life.The arts...More »
"XXI Century man" Exhibition 3 Directed by Issey Miyake
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Product
- 2008-03-30 - 2008-07-06
Eight years into the new millennium and the question arises: where are we headed, now that we live in the century once hailed as the future? This question is the springboard and theme for our third exhibition,...More »
"Bulls Eye Special 2008" Exhibition
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- Media: Graphics - Photography - Installation - Talks
- 2008-01-26 - 2008-03-16
The first show of 2008 is brought to you by 21_21 and their corporate Partners. To see, to view, to observe, to perceive.... Discerning taste and a superlative eye are essential components for successful...More »
"Water" Exhibition
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- Media: Graphics - Installation - Product
- 2007-10-05 - 2008-01-14
How can we use design to respond to and address issues related to our natural or social environments? 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT is dedicated to addressing themes that are rooted in everyday life. 21_21 DESIGN...More »
"This Play!" Exhibition
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- Media: Product - Fashion - Talks - Performance Art
- 2007-09-11 - 2007-09-24
The "This Play!" exhibition is a play on the term "display," as used to describe show windows and shops. "Display" can have several meanings, including "to open up and show," "to publish," or "to put...More »
"New Creators Met Together in Europe" Exhibition
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- Media: Fashion
- 2007-08-30 - 2007-09-05
In order to promote talented new designers and help launch them to success, Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo (JFW) will hold an exhibition called "New Creators Met Together in Europe" at the 21_21 Design Sight,...More »
"Lucky Luck Show" Exhibition
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- Media: Fashion - Talks - Performance Art
- 2007-08-10 - 2007-08-24
21_21 Design Sight will be hosting a summer program called "Lucky Luck Show" that will focus on traditional performance arts such as rakugo (traditional comic storytelling) and kyogen (traditional comic...More »
"Chocolate" Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Installation - Video and Film - Talks
- 2007-04-27 - 2007-07-29
21_21's first exhibition, "Chocolate", has been planned and executed under the direction of Naoto Fukasawa a product designer and one of the 21_21 directors. The subject matter of the first exhibition...More »
William Forsythe "Additive Inverse"
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- Media: Video and Film
- 2007-04-07 - 2007-04-18
William Forsythe was born in the US, in 1949 in New York State. In 1973 he traveled to Europe where he joined the Stuttgart Ballet. In 1984, he began his tenure as Director of the Frankfurt Ballet where...More »
Tadao Ando “A Hard-Fought Process"
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- Media: Architecture - Talks
- 2007-03-30 - 2007-04-18
21_21 Design Sight marks its opening with the special program 'Tadao Ando Construction Site 2006 “A Hard-Fought Process”'. The program is mainly about getting people to experience the space - by opening...More »

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