NAOTO FUKASAWA, the man and his ex philosophy
“Hari is usually translated as ‘tension,’” Fukasawa says, “but that’s not correct. In Japanese, young people’s skin, it’s very smooth. That’s called hari skin. If you describe an energetic person, then we’d say a hari person. It’s very hard to explain.”
He pulls out a piece of paper. “This is a human,” he says, drawing a small figure. “This is force.” Small arrows pointing at the figure are added. “If I want to become a good designer, some of my desire is to change the force around me. I push back, and the shape is balanced. If the force is too big and the inside power is weak, then the shape is pushed in, right? And if my desire or goal is very powerful, then the shape pushes out, and it’s very expressive. Hari means there’s a balance, a fine line between the two forces together.” In product design, hari is about finding the most suitable shape to express an object, or rather for the object to express itself. “If I design a coffee cup, I have to decide the line, the outline,” Fukasawa says. “This is decided by the outside environment-humans, time, ways of drinking-many things for a shape.”
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this is an abstract of the crazy moments me and my group mates have while doing AR1221. IDEAS AND APPROACHES TO DESIGN.
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