1 09, 2010
Greetings.
Living World is a small design office based in Tokyo.
Most of our Works now have English descriptions, and more and more will.
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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?
Living World’s e-news
EARTH CLOCK in Wakabadai
Earth Clock
Inagi Municipal iPlaza (Wakabadai, 2009)
Following the installation at Koshigaya LakeTown (2008), we installed yet another edition of EARTH CLOCK, this one in the elevator hall of Inagi Municipal iPlaza, a culture center opened in October in front of the Keio Line Wakabaidai Station.
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by LW 18 11, 2009
Beyond our solar system: palmtop version
The Milky Way galaxy suspended in a glass cube
Introducing a new, smaller version of the ‘Beyond our solar system’ galaxy in a glass cube made with the aid of 80,000 pieces of star data.
(‘Beyond our solar system’ is a three-dimensional laser-etched rendering of stars in a cube of high-grade transparent optical glass, based on the latest data from Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory. The etching is performed in Japan. See information on the larger version for more detail.)
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by LW 17 10, 2009
Visits to LW
with YURAS Inc.（2009）
‘Visits’ is a live system that visualizes accesses to our site, tracing the most recent 500 visits on a map of the world.
> open Visits
by LW 20 06, 2009
In this time: relationship is infinity
From a series of sandglasses showing "other sorts of time"
A sandglass that has been positively received at our exhibitions, but has not been sold to date.
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by LW 20 12, 2008
in Kamiyama
in Kamiyama
NPO Green Valley, Kamiyama (Tokushima, 2008)
At the request of the non-profit organization Green Valley Inc. as a part of their community-building efforts for the town of Kamiyama, Tokushima on the island of Shikoku, we created the ‘in Kamaiyama’ website, linking a small mountain village to the world.
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by LW 14 10, 2008
EARTH CLOCK in LakeTown
Earth Clock
LakeTown (Koshigaya, 2008)
A new edition of EARTH CLOCK (Kobe Airport 2006).
In October 2008, two clock towers were set in one of the atriums of Aeon Lake Town in Koshigaya. (Aeon Lake Town is Japan’s largest shopping center).
The clock on the left expresses time in hours and minutes. The one on the right reflects natural time: Sun’s shadow as it appears in real time on a slowly rotating three-dimensional rendition of Earth.
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by LW 2 10, 2008
In this time: sunlight reaches earth (wooden frame)
From a series of sandglasses showing "other sorts of time"
A sandglass showing the time taken for light from the sun to reach earth, originally one half of a set including a moonlight version released in late 2006. Produced in response to occasional requests for a separate sun-only option.
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by LW 20 05, 2008
Beyond our solar system
The Milky Way galaxy suspended in a glass cube
Behold: a galaxy suspended in a glass cube.
A laser was used to etch around 80,000 of the stars in the Milky Way, using three-dimensional data from the Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory.
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by LW 22 12, 2007
In this time: the silent musical work 4’33” was first performed
A sandglass of the composition 4'33” by John Cage
From a series of sandglasses showing "other sorts of time"
John Cage was a leading composer and artist of the 20th century.
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by LW 18 10, 2007
In this time: 100 stars cease to shine
Sandglass that marks the stars’ demise
From a series of sandglasses showing "other sorts of time"
Stars (fixed stars) shine, until eventually all their internal energy is released and they burn out.
Alternatively, they may end life by exploding in a supernova.
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by LW 18 10, 2007
