Morigoto Crayon

A branch-shaped crayon carrying the scent of wood, extracted from forest resources

CREATIVE-WORK　WORKSHOP　

YOHJOH (Kameido)

Six months of free experimentation, in a free building awaiting demolition

CREATIVE-WORK　PROGRAM　

ASIBA Creative League 4th

A four-month mentorship program that opens a path to society through solidarity

PROGRAM

Ankyo Shopping Street U35 Idea Competition

Local players gather along a shopping street built over a hidden river, as young creators forge a new current

PROGRAM　WORKSHOP　COMPETITION　

Temporary Use of a Vacant Lot in Yaesu

Activating the gaps in the city

CREATIVE-WORK　

TSG Creative-LAB. 2nd/3rd

Two to three months in which the next generation of makers draws out a way of living, starting from their own questions

PROGRAM　

Towards Creative Entrepreneurship

Opening a new space of practice where creativity meets entrepreneurship

TALK　

Social Experiment with Local Governments Using Generative AI (Nakano & Adachi)

What do the people of the city see in this space?

WORKSHOP　RESEARCH　

ASIBA Creative Incubation Program 3rd

Balancing ‘making what you want to make’ with ‘growing it into a business in society’

PROGRAM　

ASIBA Creative Challenge 2025

In a competition with no judges, questioning the core and potential of your own expression

PROGRAM　

Living Lens: An Introduction to Urban Design with Living Creatures

A hands-on multispecies-design program that reconsiders urban space from the perspective of other living creatures

WORKSHOP　RESEARCH　

Nessum Award JAPAN 2026

Crossing a complex communication standard with diverse ideas to spark an interesting evolution

TALK　COMPETITION　

ASIBA Research Notes

As an Indeterminate Moving Body / To Displace the World's Orbit

CREATIVE-WORK　TALK　RESEARCH　

Seasonal Demolition Materials Demo Auction, Autumn 2025

An auction-style workshop that puts a price tag on materials headed for the scrap heap

EXHIBITION　

Setagaya Youth Center Proposal

Everyday local infrastructure, built for young people

PROPOSAL　

ASIBA Creative Incubation Program 2nd

Twenty creative entrepreneurs who kept facing the challenge of balancing their own questions with a connection to society

PROGRAM　

A Demolition Material Reuse Project Toward a Circular Trading Business

Starting from the demolition site, questioning how to industrialize building-material reuse

TALK　RESEARCH　

AGC × ReLink: Glass Upcycling Workshop in Suwa

Touching glass, entering the community, searching for a point of contact with circularity

WORKSHOP　RESEARCH　

ASIBA Creative Incubation Program 1st

Eight weeks in which architecture students built a foothold as the ‘next generation of makers’

PROGRAM　

Memory Camera

A participatory workshop building a community radio station along the Suido-doro corridor

CREATIVE-WORK　WORKSHOP　

Shimizu Corporation NOVARE × yomiyomi × ASIBA: Designing a Paper Fan Worth Talking About

Etch your memories of NOVARE onto a paper fan

CREATIVE-WORK　

Shimizu Corporation NOVARE × faatto × ASIBA: Happy Hour Project

Weaving ‘a hint that something is about to happen’ into everyday scenery, to lift people's senses

CREATIVE-WORK　

Youbee: A Reading Circle App @ co-ba ebisu

A tool for community-building that starts from the bottom up

CREATIVE-WORK　WORKSHOP　

Shimizu Corporation: Future Design of Fire-Resistant Technology

Redefining fire-resistant technology as a technology for building the future

RESEARCH　

Shimizu Corporation NOVARE: Entrance Sign Map

A freely reconfigurable entrance map for a flexible space

CREATIVE-WORK　

Port Island Study Tour: Considering the ‘Maritime City of the 21st Century’

What the ‘21st-century maritime city’ set out to become, and where it stands today

WORKSHOP　RESEARCH　

UNBUILD Virtual Exhibition

For architectural works that question every premise

EXHIBITION　

New Hope Idea Workshop

A faint spark of an idea grows, from a single sheet of paper, into new hope — cultivating the seeds of design

WORKSHOP　

Unraveling Creative Entrepreneurship

Crossing questions and practice with the next generation of creators in architecture, urbanism, and design

TALK　

ASIBA ATLAS #3

An industry-government-academia conference asking what creativity brings to society

WORKSHOP　TALK　

Miraikan × Tokyo Bay eSG: Futurescape — Generating Possible Cities with AI

Picturing the future of Tokyo Bay, one block at a time

WORKSHOP　EXHIBITION　

ASIBA GROUNDBREAKING 2023

A new form of architecture × social implementation

TALK　PROGRAM

ASIBA FES 2024

Does that gaze reach beyond the present?

EXHIBITION　PROGRAM　TALK　

ASIBA Rebranding

CREATIVE-WORK

Cancertive Project

CREATIVE-WORK　

Liquid beings

CREATIVE-WORK　EXHIBITION　

MIHARE

CREATIVE-WORK　

Olfactory Heritage

CREATIVE-WORK　EXHIBITION　

Peekabugs

CREATIVE-WORK　

PETRA

CREATIVE-WORK　

That Hospital Room

CREATIVE-WORK　

Listening to Paintings

CREATIVE-WORK　

Erecting Hari-chan at Shinobazu Pond

CREATIVE-WORK　RESEARCH　

yomiyomi

A memory product that gives form to what you don't want to forget

CREATIVE-WORK　

faatto

A spatial experience that plants ‘a hint that something is about to happen’ into everyday scenery

CREATIVE-WORK　

Makicompe

A hands-on competition that poses a question about a region's ‘underused places’

COMPETITION　

The Enchanted Music of the Celestial Spheres

Inspired by ancient Greek theory, proving ‘sorcery’ through performance

CREATIVE-WORK　

“wo”

A video installation of ‘layered scenery,’ where a town's landscape and memory intersect

CREATIVE-WORK　EXHIBITION　

utsuRe

Experimenting with the shape of trust between people, through a ‘camera that belongs to no one’

CREATIVE-WORK　

Tabi no Sanbusaku

A portable board game that colors the ‘before, during, and after’ of a trip, deepening its memories

CREATIVE-WORK　

Jig_Project

A two-tatami-mat living space, built with jigs, that draws out improvisational behavior

CREATIVE-WORK　EXHIBITION　

Fuudo

Crossing food and architecture, designing a new food space from the customs of the ginger cave

CREATIVE-WORK　

Koisuru Honjima Project

Falling in love with Honjima, an island of ‘nothing at all’

CREATIVE-WORK　

Fuwariii.

A time-delayed communication tool that colors the moments parents and children miss each other

CREATIVE-WORK　

OHHH

Unraveling the relationship between salt and the city, and reconstructing new meaning through diverse methods

CREATIVE-WORK　EXHIBITION　

Enoniwa

Nurturing a flat relationship across disability, through a drawing app

CREATIVE-WORK　WORKSHOP　

Hami Lab

A compost project that redefines the value of waste — the ‘hamidashimono,’ or things left out

CREATIVE-WORK　

Kenchiku Yatai

Full on-site support for making a space — a dispatch-based service aimed at your independence

CREATIVE-WORK　

Nicchi Nokku!

Building a cozy secret base in the ‘everyday blind spots’ of an exhausted city

CREATIVE-WORK　

Takenoko

A model that uses vacant houses to protect and grow a town's precious ‘hangout space’

CREATIVE-WORK　

Magohaku

‘Grandchildren’ tend to a vacant house, and stay the night

CREATIVE-WORK　

Shien no Tomarigi

A new kind of smoking space, for smokers and non-smokers alike

CREATIVE-WORK　

Sukima

Spreading advertising you can ‘experience without trying’ through architectural methods, to fill the city with excitement

CREATIVE-WORK　

Toshi no Mochimaki

Turning construction scaffolding into street furniture, bringing a sense of festivity to the city

CREATIVE-WORK　

Suwarunba

Cardboard furniture × autonomous mobile robots, for a new, ever-changing living space

CREATIVE-WORK　

Yohack

Treating footsteps as a brush to paint the city, turning a walk into a creative experience

CREATIVE-WORK　

Nokotsugu

Linking a building's data directly to it on the blockchain, to carry it into the future

CREATIVE-WORK　

Machi no Hondana

‘Machi no Hondana,’ a place where a diverse range of people gather, meet, and learn together

CREATIVE-WORK　

LOVE & TOILET

A future restroom, comfortable for everyone at any time, that carries roles beyond just relieving oneself

CREATIVE-WORK　

Sand Print

An architecture built only from beach sand and seawater

CREATIVE-WORK　

Nijo Architecture

Renting out the small space of a mini-truck bed to the town

CREATIVE-WORK　WORKSHOP　EXHIBITION　

tugu/nuru

Giving new value to broken furniture

CREATIVE-WORK　

Rakugo Space Ochiba

Reliving the stories and sensibility of rakugo, staged in urban space

CREATIVE-WORK　

Pochant

With a volume large enough to get in the way of everyday life

CREATIVE-WORK　

Daiju

Matching relocators with carpenters who ‘build alongside them’

CREATIVE-WORK　

Sympletic (Withvac)

A platform that democratizes structural and environmental analysis, spanning a building's design through its operation

CREATIVE-WORK　

Relink

Design that begins by taking a building apart

CREATIVE-WORK　RESEARCH　

Project NESS

Could generative AI render our many different views of a city or region as something fluid, like liquid?

CREATIVE-WORK　RESEARCH　

Youbee

A tool for community-building that starts from the bottom up

CREATIVE-WORK　

Floor

Starting from a vacant building, implementing a mobile foundation for living

CREATIVE-WORK