Shizuoka City and JLGC are supporting the Asian Creative Culture event, which takes place at the following London venues/events:
RED GALLERY 22 (Thu) – 24 (Sat) September 2011
TENT LONDON 22 (Thu) – 25 (Sun) September 2011
Co-Sponsors: CCC (the center for creative communications), SCV (Shizuoka Content Valley)
Cooperation: B-nest (Shizuoka City Industry-University Exchange Center), IdN magazine (Hong Kong), ICN gallery, Hexaproject London Limited
Support: Embassy of Japan in the UK, The Japan Society, CLAIR London, JETRO London, Kirin Europe Ltd.
Planning: NPO Hexaproject
“A city of history and highly skilled craftsmanship.”
Shizuoka City is located in approximately the middle of the main island of Japan, Honshu, between Tokyo and Nagoya – a mega-region known as the most economically active in Japan. Known throughout Japan as a city of “mono-zukuri” (literally: ‘the making of things’), Shizuoka has a long history of craftsman thanks in part to the shogun Tokugawa bringing the best carpenters, lacquer-smiths and carvers with him when he retired to Shizuoka. For the past 400 years since then, the skills of their decedents have sharpened and Shizuoka is becoming a world-class “mono-zukuri city”.
In Japanese, the words mono (thing) and zukuri (process of making), when taken together literally mean the process of making or creating things, however a mere translation does not convey the accurate connotation of monozukuri. The concept is much more intense; monozukuri means having the spirit to produce excellence products and the ability to constantly improve a production system and process
