The document discusses the maker movement in Japan. It notes that experiences used to be disconnected but are now entangled connections adding human touch to the design process. Making has become more human-centered and personalized by adding customization and storytelling. The maker movement encourages turning ideas into reality and sharing more tangibly. This creates transparency, trust, curiosity and attachment between makers and users.

1. MAKER MOVEMENT
& CREATIVE
CLIMATE IN JAPAN
Aki Kawana
Loftwork

2. What makes “making” special in Japan?

4. Experiences used to be dots.

5. Now it’s an entangled connections of dots.

6. Human touch was added to design process.

7. Entire ecosystem became human-centered.

8. Designing became more human.

9. People became aware of manufacturing.

10. Environmental consciousness became a thing.

11. Mass products became less valuable.

12. and people started to look for something else.

13. then making, became a thing.

14. because it adds another human touch, to the process.

15. Personalization

16. Personalization = Customization + Storytelling

23. 体験Experience

24. We make impacts by designing products, services, and spaces.

25. We collaborate with many different creatives around the globe.

26. Dynamic fluid of creativity.

28. This isn’t something we look for a
black swan.
It is to explore and grow seed
ideas and set up for success.

30. What is FabCafe?

31. it is a place to accelerate creative serendipity over coffee.
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32. FabCafe, along with the maker movement,
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33. encourages people to turn their ideas into reality,
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34. and share in more tangible ways.
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36. Tokyo
Hida
Taipei
Bangkok
Barcelona
Toulouse

38. 152 submissions from 26 countries

39. 2012
Grand
Prize

40. 2014
Grand
Prize

42. 2015
Grand
Prize

63. Businesses:
• Forestry

64. Products Lodge Database FabCafe

65. Products
Hida city has provided their city forest to
Hidakuma in order to bring creativity into
wood resources and develop the business.
In order to enrich the forest, Hidakuma will
collaborate with sawmills, furniture makers,
and woodworkers together with the creative
talents all over the world to turn wooden
resources to valuable products.

66. Lodge
Hidakuma will provide lodging services to
companies and universities for their retreat.
Upcoming events:
• Summer camp for design schools
Design school students from the US, Canada and
Taiwan will join a summer camp for 3 weeks in Hida.
• May-June, 2016
• 3 weeks
• 35 students and professors
• IoT x Tech
• Training camp for a consumer product company
A TSE listed consumer product company will have a
bootcamp in Hida for their new business development
team.
• August, 2016
• 2 days
• 6 project teams

67. FabCafe Hida
Hidakuma will be renovating an old “sake”
brewery in the center of the city to create a
digital fabrication space “FabCafe”.
We will host workshops and run an annual
festival not just for creating a local
community but to expand the makers
movement by utilizing forestry assets.

68. Kumiki Database
Kumiki is a word in Japanese that means
“joint woods together” - popular in some
areas as “wooden puzzles”.
The project of Hidakuma on Kumiki is to
create a digital archive of the 3D data and
make an open-source database publicly
available for any creatives around the world.

72. What makes “making” special in Japan?

73. Personalization = Customization + Storytelling

74. adding human touch to the process.

75. Transparency Trust Curiosity Attachment

76. Transparency Trust Curiosity Attachment
Maker movement gives users greater
transparency to people who receives and
experiences throughout the lifecycle of the
service and/or product.

77. Transparency Trust Curiosity Attachment
The transparency gives impressions to users that
the maker, product and the users are close, thus
builds trusts among stakeholders.

78. Transparency Trust Curiosity Attachment
Maker tools have been enabling people to test
out easily and make tangible outputs in shorter
period of time.

79. Transparency Trust Curiosity Attachment
The thought process of someone making
something for you, creates heartwarming
attachment that bonds stronger than production
items, especially in a high-context culture