Learning
The Aichi Triennale 2025 Learning Programs aim to create an environment in which everyone can feel safe and enjoy themselves. Our mission is to create a framework allowing visitors, people from the local community, and the volunteers who have supported the art festival for a decade and a half since Aichi Triennale 2010, to participate actively in their respective roles.
Specifically, we are setting up learning centers at the Aichi Arts Center and in Seto City, to be run as places for both learning and relaxing. They can be made available for resting and chatting as well as for programs such as training, lectures, and workshops. We are also considering a program that would allow volunteers greater autonomy in the roles that they play in the art festival.
We are continuing with activities that were successful at past Triennales, such as programs coordinated with schools that expose children to contemporary art and guided tours conducted by volunteers. In addition, we are working to boost activities that take into consideration people who have disabilities, and those who are pregnant, have small children with them, or whose native language is not Japanese.
In the lead up to Aichi Triennale 2025, we are setting up pre-event centers in Seto City for a limited time, from October to November 2024. We will also launch “Learning, learning” pre-events as the first part of “Learning how to learn,” and, going forward, plan to hold study groups and walking programs within the local communities.
Five people with diverse areas of expertise—an architect, design researcher, photographer, art manager, and artist—are planning and running the Learning Programs for this art festival. We continue to engage in discussion as we consider the kinds of learning that are possible, based on the theme of this art festival, in a society that is home to a diverse range of people. We try to make good use of the specialist expertise and experience we gained through different roles in our individual practices. Reflecting regularly on our own individual experiences and perspectives, we aim to make this an art festival in which everyone feels safe and enjoys themselves.
Learning Team
(From left to right) Murakami Satoshi, Noda Tomoko, Tsuji Takuma, Kuroda Natsuki, Asano Kakeru
Tsuji Takuma
Born in Shizuoka, Japan. Based in Shizuoka, Japan.
After graduating from the architecture course of the Department of Architecture and Building Science at Yokohama National University in 2008 and then the Yokohama Graduate School of Architecture (Y-GSA) in 2010, architect Tsuji Takuma formed the “403architecture [dajiba]” architectural collective in 2011. He established “tsujitakuma and projects” in 2017, incorporating it as Tsujitakuma and Projects LLC in 2022. He also currently serves as special advisor at Takashi Watanabe Office. Tsuji won the 30th Yoshioka Award for “The Ceiling of Tomitsuka” in 2014. He participated in the Japan Pavilion exhibition that won a special mention at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale (2016, Italy).*
* Awarded as the collective 403architecture [dajiba].
Asano Kakeru
Born in Hyogo, Japan. Based in Aichi, Japan.
Asano Kakeru (he/his) is a design researcher based in Aichi, Japan. Dedicated to achieving social inclusion through design research, he offers comprehensive solutions spanning survey design, branding, product development, and business strategy. His approach is characterized by qualitative studies that consider the context of social transformation, employing methods tailored to capture evolving societal dynamics. His work focuses on understanding context and crafting compelling visions to uncover unexplored challenges and opportunities. After earning a master’s degree in design, engineering, and management from the Kyoto Institute of Technology in 2014, he established his practice in Nagoya. He is also a co-founder of Arimatsu Yamori, LLC, a community development company that revitalizes local neighborhoods through innovative urban planning and management strategies.
Kuroda Natsuki
Born in Kanagawa, Japan. Based in Tokyo, Japan.
Photographer Kuroda Natsuki won the grand prize at the 8th 1_WALL Photography Competition in 2013. She is interested in the interactions that take place through photographs in the absence of face-to-face contact between people. Recently, she has also been creating video pieces that involve fieldwork and workshops. Her activities are wide-ranging, including taking part in an anniversary project at a public zoo from the planning stage. Major group exhibitions include Zoo Escape Drill, Tokyo Biennale (2023, Japan). Major solo exhibitions include Halfway Happy vol. 3 Natsuki Kuroda: The Photograph Begins, galleryαM (2021, Tokyo, Japan) and Art Lab 13 Kuroda Natsuki: Birdwatching day, Chiba City Museum of Art (2023, Japan).
Noda Tomoko
Born in Gifu, Japan. Based in Kyoto, Japan.
Art manager Noda Tomoko has engaged in creating an environment conducive to art and culture, and in collaborating with artists since 2020, when she cofounded the art production company Twelve Inc., which focuses on art management and media production. She is a member of the artist collective “Nadegata Instant Party”. Major projects include management of the learning section at Aichi Triennale 2019 (2018 – 19), learning coordinator at Aichi Triennale 2022 (2021 – 22), and producer of Art Site in Nagoya Castle, an art project set in Nagoya Castle (2023 – present).
Murakami Satoshi
Born in Tokyo, Japan. Based in Nagano, Tokyo, Chiba, Japan.
Murakami Satoshi is an artist. Focusing on the relationship between the private and the public, his art explores the impact of individuals’ lives on society. Recently, he has been working on the Murakami Benkyo Do project, which is developing air conditioning that utilizes natural phenomena on land purchased in Sammu City, Chiba Prefecture. Exhibitions include SATOSHI MURAKAMI Living Migration, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2020, Ishikawa, Japan) and TERRADA ART AWARD 2023 Finalist Exhibition, Warehouse TERRADA (2024, Tokyo, Japan). Authored books include Ie wo Seotte Aruku (The life with a small mobile house, Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers, 2016).