"21_21 Design Sight" is a design facility in Tokyo which will be at the currently-being-built Tokyo Midtown complex in Roppongi. The directors of the facility are fashion designer Issey Miyake, graphic designer Taku Satoh, and product designer Naoto Fukusawa. The architect of the building itself is Tadao Ando. 21_21 Design Sight is scheduled to open in 2007.
It will be not so much a museum as a research center for design, a place for thinking about design, and a place where things are actually made. The aim is to share views and ideas with the many parties involved in design, starting with designers and including companies, craftsmen and engineers, as well as consumers, and to launch a movement to foster interest in, and greater understanding of design.
Note, technorati has no links to this site yet. I'll be tracking it to see how popular it is in the Japanese blogosphere.
Leave a comment