tokyo design week 08: TOTO project

visitors interacting with the 'flower petals'
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at 100% design tokyo, TOTO ltd., presented a project they had done in collaboration with different japanese
universities and architect sou fujimoto who acted as project director. workshops were lead that were run
between university students and TOTO ltd., which revolved around the theme of the environment, health
and healing. the purpose of the workshops was to get participants to think about our relationship with water
by producing water-related objects that considered a new lifestyle revolving around the natural resource.
the result were 'water tables' designed by eight different student teams.


'floating flower' by aya masudome, ozomi kunimura and haruka okada from the university of tsukuba
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coasters of water act like floating petals on a solid 'puddle'. you were invited to play and experience a different
way of interacting with water.


' . ' by asako oguri, masayo fujiwara and rena mizuno from joshibi university of art and design
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' . ' had holes in the surface of the table in which water could pool into
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'table of gravel' by akiko okamura, sou kojima, takaya satou from nippon design college
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the table is a contained puddle of water which controls the gravel that sits inside. visitors are asked to play with
the water and gravel.


'the world at the bottom of the water' by tomoaki takemura, rina akahide and hiroki yano from creative design college
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the students behind this table were looking at the characteristics of a puddle and how each one has its own little
world growing inside of it. some have soil, plants, creature, while others are big, small, deep or shallow.


the table's various water levels
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'blank table' by ayumi sonoda, hiroyuki nakahta and mami kawasaki from kyoto seika university
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'blank' explores the space between objects on a table. the areas in between change as it fills with water,
with some objects naturally moving on their own while others are manually relocated.


the 'blank table' top is made up of a mosaic of transparent square tiles
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installation of the water tables which were part of TOTO project
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more
TOTO: http://www.toto.co.jp

100% design tokyo: http://www.100percentdesign.jp