Information Design/2017/11 min/Reel № 17.001
ByShoko Tamura
Shoko Tamura on designing garments that amplify personal expression
Inspiration Is Nothing Without Action/Recorded 2017
A close reading, kept within reach.
Shoko Tamura takes information design as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in Japan in 2017, the conversation is grounded in Shoko's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
The Keio University student says wearable technology could redefine the way people play in urban landscapes.
About the speaker
Shoko Tamura
Tokyo/Japan
Shoko Tamura is a member of Daijiro Mizuno research laboratory at Keio University, Tokyo Japan, where she looks at speculative design and the human mind.
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