MATERIAL IN TIME で展示・販売した製品を、期間後も世界へ発信・販売していくために開設したonline shopです。
”素材=MATERIAL”を切り口に日本のクリエイティビティを発信する当展示会は、日本の優れた作り手による感度の高いものづくりを、日本だけに留まらず世界へ伝えることを目的としています。
国境を越えての行き来も多くなり、また情報も得やすくなった現代において、上質な感性をいかにダイレクトに伝えられるかが大切です。
私たちは、それぞれのデザイナーやクリエイター、企業のクリエイティビティを素材という共通項でつなぎ、視点を作り手へ寄せながら、その技術の高さと魅力を交えて発信・販売していきたいと考えています。
MATERIAL IN TIME is a platform for integrating both the wealth of materials supporting Japanese traditional arts and crafts and new materials created through advanced research and development with design and communicating them to the world. In today’s world, there are a variety of different materials; how will these materials be involved in life, how will they align with the times 100, or even 200 years from now?
There are elements necessary for objects people use that have n ot changed over the passage of time ‒ that they please the five senses, that they be beautiful to look at and pleasant to touch. We focus on both manufacturing and application processes through the joy of acquiring new sensations, the beauty that can be fel t from things precisely because they have been well-used, and through materials, so that we comprehend the wisdom and the skills of our predecessors and preserve them for the future, With MATERIAL IN TIME, we provide a place where we can consider things not only with specialists involved in creation, but also with the general public. The venue, PMQ, a stage for design and cultural dissemination, is not in Japan but in Hong Kong. How will the people of Hong Kong ‒ an island nation like Japan ‒ react to materials disseminated from Japan? Let’s experience designs created from traditional arts and crafts cultivated through the years and from modern materials that stand to become traditional arts and crafts in the future.