"Can students in Singapore and Kyoto engage in a meaningful collaboration without meeting each other in person? Is there a method of design that takes advantage of the fact that they are not directly seeing each other? From these questions, we derived the theme: “Exchanged Forms”.

 

Students first take pictures of objects and sceneries that are typical in their country, and then send them to the students in the other country with a short description. Thanks to the inevitable misinterpretation that accompanies this process, we produced objects that reflect qualities of both Singapore and Kyoto”

 

Prof. Eizo Okada, Kyoto Institute of Technology           

 

              

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Kyoto is home to the finest Uji Tea productions in Japan. Tubo is a trio of lidded canisters for storing items within. The lids are a graphical extraction of the sinuous, tubular tea aisles spanning across the mountainsides of Kyoto, emphasising its three-dimensional, lush quality. 

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