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2014

Good Design Award

Award-winning item
Art Project [Akasaki Wednesday Post Office]
Business Owner
Tsunagi Town
Category
Creation of town, local area or community
Company
TSUNAGI ART MUSEUM (Japan)
Award Number
14G141185
Outline of Good Design Award winners
Outline of Good Design Award winners 2014

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Outline

The closed elementary school on the sea in Tsunagi town of Kumamoto is regarded as a post office, which gets letters written about occurrences on Wednesdays from the whole country. After turning down personal information, they will be exchanged at random and be transmitted. Some of the letters are open to the public on the exclusive web site, and also the residents read them and they are broadcast over the radio (a momentary pause from October). These actions play an important role, such as creating a new "community" where residents gather in city planning with art culture we work on.

Producer

Tomoo Kusumoto(Project Producer)

Director

Tomoo Kusumoto+Shoji Toyama(Project Director)+Yasuaki Igarashi(Facilitator)

Designer

Showhey Kato(Artist)+Yoomi Tamai(Artist)+Misako Ishida(Member)+Hiromi Hayashida(Member)+Shoichi Matsuda(Member)+Kyoko Sasaki(Member)+Osamu Matsuda(Member)+Ikuko Fukushima(Member)

More information

http://akasaki-wed-post.jp/

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2013/6/19
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