JAPAN DESU CATALOGUE
Tradition & modernity
Published Catalogue
TC cuadernos publishing _ Valencia, ES
Co-authors: Ignacio Germade, Alberto Nicolau, José M. Lapuerta & Mar García
October 2022
JAPAN DESU reflects on the intersection between culture and design in today’s Japan. In a context of international fluidity, design generates a paradoxical dialogue between past and present, local traditions and new subcultures.
This exhibition brings us closer to architecture, fashion and automotive as references that reflect a way of being and doing in Japan. Disciplines that change in scale but focus on their relationship with the human body, harmony and a constant search for improvement.
Japan, as a society, incubates significant trends that could become part of everyday life in Spain in the near future and what is shown here can help us understand how design has the power to shape those new experiences.