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UPCOMING PROGRAM

What If? BOSAI: The Next Disaster

What If? BOSAI: The Next Disaster

July 4 (Fri), 2025 - November 3 (Mon), 2025

No one knows when and where natural disaster will strike. But by not ignoring the issues, we will build up ideas about what to do right now.

This exhibition looks at experiences of natural disaster, and at those surrounding issues. We start from one simple question: what defines a disaster? Exhibits include data visualizations, displays of disaster-preparedness products, and projects triggered by natural disasters. The venue is scattered with associated questions which we would like to think through with visitors. If we look ahead, the future may work out a little bit different.

Exhibition Director: WOW

Theme: Reflecting on the Work and Philosophy of Great Designers

Theme: Reflecting on the Work and Philosophy of Great Designers

November 21 (Fri), 2025 - March 8 (Sun), 2026

Human encounter provides avenues to think about the future of life and society. In this age of dynamic social change, with its fast flows of mass information, we might wish to look back and consider masters who used design to articulate diverse viewpoints.

This exhibition will focus on 20th century design leaders. These figures put their hopes and beliefs into practice and brought new social insights. The exhibition introduces them as Great Designers. Visitors will enjoy encountering fascinating designers and sensing their curiosity, inquisitiveness and courage.

Exhibition Directors: Noriko Kawakami, Kaoru Tashiro
Art Director: SPREAD
Space Design: TONERICO:INC.

Theme: Food

Theme: Food

March 27 (Fri), 2026 - August 9 (Sun), 2026

Food, clothing and shelter are considered the minimum requirements for human life. While clothing and shelter wrap us from outside, food fills us within. This exhibition is directed by Natsumi Toyama, a designer with wide interest in food, clothing and shelter. She sets soup as the main axis of her design activity, believing that soup can contain rich nutritious elements in their simplest dietary form. Food is the theme of this exhibition, which interacts with the five senses. Soup is the means to address Tōyama’s lifework and the boundaries between food, clothing and shelter.

Exhibition Director: Natsumi Toyama
Art Director: Yoshihisa Tanaka
Graphic Design: centre Inc.
Space Design: Fuminori Nousaku + Mio Tsuneyama
Sound Design:Tokuro Oka

PAST PROGRAM

  • Exhibition "The Art of the RAMEN Bowl"
  • Exhibition "pooploop"
  • Exhibition "Future Elements: Experimental Laboratory for Prototyping in Science and Design"
  • "Modes and Characters: Poetics of Graphic Design"
  • Exhibition "Material, or "
  • Exhibition "The Original"
  • Exhibition "Christo and Jeanne-Claude 'L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped'"
  • Exhibition "The Year 2121: Futures In-Sight"
  • Exhibition "Rules?"
  • "traNslatioNs - Understanding Misunderstanding"
  • "Secret Source of Inspiration: Designers’ Hidden Sketches and Mockups"
  • "Insects: Models for Design"
  • "SENSE OF HUMOR"
  • "MINGEI -Another Kind of Art"
  • "AUDIO ARCHITECTURE"
  • "NEW PLANET PHOTO CITY - William Klein and Photographers Living in the 22nd Century -"
  • "Wild: Untamed Mind"
  • "GRAND PROJECTS: HOW FAR WILL YOU GO?"
  • "ATHLETE"
  • "Design Anatomy: A method for seeing the world through familiar objects"
  • "DOBOKU: Civil Engineering"
  • "ZAKKA -Goods and Things-"
  • "Architect Frank Gehry 'I Have an Idea'"
  • "Motion Science"
  • "Measuring: This much, That much, How much?"
  • "THE FAB MIND: Hints of the Future in a Shifting World"
  • "Image-Makers"
  • "KOME : The Art of Rice"
  • "Toward a DESIGN MUSEUM JAPAN"
  • "COLOR-HUNTING"
  • "Design Ah!"
  • "Ikko Tanaka and Future/Past/East/West of Design"
  • "TEMA HIMA: the Art of Living in Tohoku"
  • "Irving Penn and Issey Miyake: Visual Dialogue"
  • "THE SPIRIT OF TOHOKU: 'CLOTHING' BY ISSEY MIYAKE"
  • "SHIRO KURAMATA and ETTORE SOTTSASS"
  • "REALITY LAB"
  • "The Definition of Self"
  • "POST FOSSIL: excavating 21st century creation"
  • "Cristo and Jeanne-Claude LIFE=WORKS=PROJECTS"
  • "THE OUTLINE: THE UNSEEN OUTLINE OF THINGS"
  • "bones"
  • "U-Tsu-Wa - Lucie Rie, Jennifer Lee, Ernst Gamperl"
  • "Second Nature"
  • "WHISPERED PRAYERS"
  • "XXIst Century Man"
  • "Bulls Eye Special 2008"
  • "water"
  • "THIS PLAY!"
  • "LUCKY LUCK SHOW"
  • "Chocolate"
  • "Tadao Ando Construction Site 2006 A Hard-Fought Process"
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