[lang_en]Living World[lang_en][lang_ja]リビングワールド[/lang_ja]

今日このごろ

LW — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:00:09 +0000

Greetings.
Living World is a small design office based in Tokyo.

Most of our Works now have English descriptions, and more and more will.
Please bear with us.

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New
Visits
visualizes accesses to our site

In this time
sunlight reaches earth (wooden frame)

Live Nature Sounds
from Iriomote Island (Japan)

An article on PingMag
Living World: Fine Tuning Your Perception

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Translated essays:
Senseware
What do we make things for?

Morning Blessing

tariho — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:00:52 +0000

　
Never stop even for a moment
In this time the sun has keep coming endless
Morning Blessing for eternity
　
The morning blessing of the next day of solar eclipse 2009 Jul. 22 on South Pacific Ocean.

Fireworks

tariho — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 06:33:19 +0000

夜も1時すぎ。京都は鴨川...Around 1 a.m. in Kyoto...

Spring Bloomer

tariho — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:44:16 +0000

　
Cherry blossoms:
In the morning of the Vernal Equinox Day in Kamiyama 2012.

Winter Leaves

tariho — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:33:05 +0000

　
It was cold morning sprinkling snow.
I met some tiny winter leaves of Japanese Loquat(Eriobotrya japonica).

In the small forest of a hill,
Steadily they start getting ready for coming spring
In a gentle pace.

Dragon

tariho — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 08:17:50 +0000

　
Dragon emerges anywhere in this world when needed. In the air, High up mountains, At water fall …　
Also It keeps the preciousness in our heart.

Dragon is reminder. It tells ‘The preciousness is here forever and ever’. Even when no see any Dragon, ‘Do not forget about The preciousness is here forever and ever’.

Larus ridibundus

tariho — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:33:08 +0000

Yurikamome / Black-headed Gulls (winter pelage) had cached the sounds of a plastic bag that yummy scones in it. Silently they came across behind me, just gazing the plastic bag. so I crushed one scone and served to them.

Soon many of Black-headed Gulls fly in and quickly pecked it and flew away.

Black-headed Gulls knows how to get what they wants. Guess what they asked someone to serve them something to peck around that pond today?

Winter branch

tariho — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 19:44:39 +0000

High up in the air
Winter branch has hover above
Seem as roots as deep in the earth

What Happens to the Sun at Night?

LW — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 10:00:52 +0000

We’ve had this idea for a book for a while, and we’re going to start pursuing it.
If you asked some children aged 5 to 9 “What happens to the sun at night?” what do you think their answers would be?

Our idea is to ask this question to children all over the world, and edit the results into a book.

We will probably discover several opinions that would have never occurred to us adults. In fact, I’m sure we will. This idea has its origins in a survey that our friend Mariko Takahashi, who works in a planetarium, did ten years ago. Now what kind of answers did she get? Well we will keep that under wraps for now and wait to see what our project results are!

Incidentally, the theory of the sun-centered solar system is not taught in Japan until junior high school.
We think that children’s relationships with the sun are going to be different depending on where they live, their culture, and environmental factors. Now…

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How to Participate
- Print out the survey (PDF).
- Ask children, “What happens to the sun at night?”
- Write their answers on the sheet, and send it in. It would be wonderful if the children themselves could write an answer and also include explanatory drawings. Please write down answers for children who are not yet able to write.

Send to:
Living World Inc. 4-8-22-1F Eifuku, Suginami-ku, Tokyo JAPAN 168-0064
*It would be great if you could use a large envelope and send the papers flat.
*If scanning the responses to send via e-mail, please scan at 300dpi and full-color.
*Responses without illustrations, which have been written down by an adult, may be sent as text via e-mail: taiyo@livingworld.net

　
Use of Submissions
- Submissions will not be returned
- Submissions will be posted online so they can be shared with everyone.
- A selection of submissions will be collected and published (currently planning to self-publish)
- A selection of submissions will be displayed as part of the Touch the Sun exhibit at graf mouth in Osaka from July 9 to August 21.
- Submissions will be used only for the purposes listed here.

About ten years ago we were making some online educational materials for senior elementary classes and we surveyed approximately 1,000 elementary and junior high students. This project was not about the sun: it was on the subject of auroras.

“When do you think auroras come out?”
“Where on earth do you think they appear?”
“Why do you think they appear?”

I don’t think there are many adults who know the correct answers to these questions. We were the same.

Then, we decided to ask some fifth and sixth grade students directly, and paid a visit to a certain elementary school. When we asked the class, their hands went up one after another, saying “Those are clouds!” and “The sun has gone around to the other side of the world and the light is spilling over.” and so on.

The following is a response to that survey, written by a student in Hideki Suzuki’s class at Keio Yochisha Primary School.

Aurora Survey
You’ve probably heard of the aurora phenomenon. Please tell us a little about what you think by answering the following three questions. This isn’t a test, so it’s OK if your answer isn’t the right one. (^_^)

Question 1 – When do you think auroras appear?
At night in winter.

Question 2 – Where on earth do you think auroras appear?
North Pole and South Pole, cold places like that.

Question 3 – Why do you think auroras occur?
The light of the moon reflects off the ice and makes auroras.
They appear when snowflakes gather near the mountains.

Gender: (Male) Female

We think that people begin to learn about science when they form their own ideas based on observation of natural phenomena.

How do children who haven’t yet been taught about it grasp the workings of the sun? How do they think about it? We’d like to create an opportunity for children and adults to learn from each other. Please help spread the word about this project.

In order to find out what children inside and outside Japan are thinking, this project is being conducted simultaneously in Japanese and English.

Thank you for your participation! :-D

Prayers

tariho — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:54:41 +0000

祈り手は...Prayers are here and...