Harima Yasuo, chairperson of Tanpopo-No-Ye, passed away on October 3rd, 2024, Harima had advocated and practiced so many movements of Building Tanpopo-No-Ye living place for people with disabilities, Wataboshi Movement, Able Art Movement, Good Job Project, and so on.
When Harima realized his disease, he wanted to publish a book about the last lecture at Joshibi University of Art and Design for young students at the end of last year. Dokusya Ltd., a publishing company which want to publish Harima’s book will publish the title book in this December. After making arrangements and checking the manuscript while undergoing medical treatment, Harima was very pleased to be able to fill the book with his messages. Unfortunately, we cannot publish the book during his lifetime.
We will hold a party in celebration of the publication of the book. We want to look back on Harima’s works and to talk about the future with everyone who had some relation or kindness to Harima. Many people come, join, interchange, and have a very good time. Harima will be delighted to see them, because he had loved the space where various people and various thought are mixed and they talk each other.
Tanpopo-No-Ye Foundation Wataboshi-No-Kai Social Welfare Corporation Nara Tanpopo-No-Kai
Part 1: 13:00~15:00
・Party in celebration of the publication
・Let’s talk about “Good Job! Harima-san”
Part 2: 16:00~17:30
・Talk “Society and Art in the future”
Social gathering: 18:30~20:30
Exhibition a the gallery of Art Center Hana
We exhibit Harima’s history, collection of books, art works which he loved. (coordinated by staffs)
If you bring memorial goods, we exhibit.
Information
*In case of bad weather and so on, we change the schedule. Please check the website of Tanpopo-No-Ye.
*You may take the driving service of Tanpopo-No-Ye from Gakuen-mae station of Kintetsu Railway. Please check the time schedule of driving service at the website of Tanpopo-No-Ye.
1979年大阪生まれ。UMA/design farm代表、どく社共同代表。グッドデザイン賞審査委員、第18回ヴェネチア・ビエンナーレ国際建築展キュレーター、花園近鉄ライナーズコミュニケーションディレクターなど。大阪を拠点に文化や福祉、地域に関わるプロジェクトを中心に、グラフィック、空間、展覧会や企画開発などを通して、理念を可視化し新しい体験をつくりだすことを目指している。「ともに考え、ともにつくる」を大切に、対話と実験を繰り返すデザインを実践。著書に『One Day Esquisse：考える「視点」がみつかるデザインの教室』。愛犬の名前はワカメ。
‘Ban’ refers to the ‘flags’ that are used during important Buddhist memorial services at temples.They are used to both beautiful adorn and honor Buddha.
It is said that they act as a prayer of peace for all people and are believed to have the power to repel evil. The 8 ‘Ban’ dusplayed here, after being judged,were chosen from 64 works submitted by dusabled people form all over Japan with the ‘Beautiful of Nature’ as the theme. We hope you enjoy the way they flutter gracefully in the wind.
