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What role can design play in determining the future of a country? In Designing Japan: A Future Built on Aesthetics, Kenya Hara approaches this question through the particular lens of Japan, examining how the country’s visual culture and philosophy of beauty can inform new responses to profound social and technological change.
Hara draws on more than three decades of experience as a designer, curator, educator, and collaborator. Rather than treating design simply as the creation of objects, he considers it a method for identifying possibilities and making complex ideas visible.
Across 208 pages, the book explores a Japan facing an aging population, changes in its manufacturing economy, and rapidly developing technology. Hara connects these challenges with design research and examples of creative problem-solving, arguing for a design culture capable of adapting while remaining rooted in distinctly Japanese approaches to aesthetics.
Compact in format and illustrated throughout, Designing Japan offers an insightful perspective on contemporary Japanese design from one of its most influential voices.
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