Analysis & Report:
[investigating the (Japanese) cultural industries as well as museum and exhibition activities]
[(日本の)カルチャー市場そしてミュージアム・展覧会活動の調査報告]
Re-translation & Advice:
[updating the characteristics of the product/service/brand/etc]
[プロダクト/サービス/ブランド等のコンセプト・デザインコンサルタント]
[encouraging self-awareness to shape the community's mindsets]
[セルフアウェアネスを通した組織文化形成]
*A variety of methods are used, including literature review, case studies, research kit creation, attribution analysis, fieldwork (in Japan and worldwide), interviews, storyboard, prototyping, etc.
*文献調査、事例研究、リサーチツール作成、関係性・保有価値分析、国際ネットワークを活かした現場調査、インタビュー、ストーリーボード、プロトタイプ等、多角的な手法でリサーチを行います。
Collaboration Session for Self-awareness & Team-knowing.
2024
What
This is a kit for a team-building process
When
during a project launching phase.
Where
In online cases, participants use an online collaboration tool such as Figma. In offline cases, the participants prepare and use post-its and pens in a meeting room or classroom.
How & Why
This session aims to facilitate understanding and empathising with self and the team members through visual representation, and idea development and translation. Before diving into the project, sharing not just members' strengths but also weaknesses will allow the team to be genuine and feel comfortable, shaping the team's mindset to support each other. One’s characteristic or even imperfection can be embraced as a quality to generate a new connection and communication.
Online Kit for Team-building
Created by Sakumi Yamaguchi. Special thanks to Daniela Santillan Nunez & Arvid De Groote.
Audience Development & Community Recomposition in a Cultural Institution.
2023-2024
Pinacoteca Agnelli, an art gallery in Torino, Italy, launched a new general vision, ‘Open to Everyone’, following the celebration of its 20th year of activity and the expansion of its rooftop space in 2022. The gallery acknowledges its identity that connects to public programmes such as museum education based on its industrial heritage as the former FIAT car factory with permanent collections of artworks, and contemporary artworks and installations.
Background
The museum aims to expand its accessibility to a wider audience.
Challenge
Participant Analysis
Asset Analysis
Architectural Composition
Topology
Being composed inside the shopping mall + being exposed to the sky outside on the rooftop.
Ecology
Shaping the environment of the gallery through different realities(the indoor exhibition spaces, the outdoor garden, the former FIAT circuit, cafe & restaurant, etc.).
Incorporating humans and non-humans as actors of the environment.
Uniqueness
The more-than-human actor analysis, bonsai & way of tea application, and shakkei application.
Featured Method
1. A series of seasonal workshops is held to care for the vegetable beings of the rooftop as well as to shape a sense of community between the museum and the people in the mall, which incorporates the workshop participants' responsible sensibility of the origin, current location and form, and final destination of the plants. (Physical audience development)
2. A curatorial video advertisement with no narration helps the audience feel as it is with a visual and audible language in a therapeutic tone, still keeping the vivid identity of the contemporary gallery. (Digital audience development)
Proposal
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Originally co-researched by Ivan Vietti, Virginia Cassai, Santi Jonathan Di Paola, Shruti Umesh Chakke, & Sakumi Yamaguchi.
Re-researched, Concept designed, & Video created by Sakumi Yamaguchi.
*The logo is copyrighted by Pinacoteca Agnelli.
