Paperback: around 150 pages
Publisher: Seibundo Shinkosha
Language: Japanese / English
Product Dimensions: 21.8 × 18.2 cm
Release Date: 2003
ISBN-10: 4416603045
ISBN-13: 978-4416603048
Price: sold
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Tomato Workshops – 2000–2002, published by Seibundo Mook in 2003, is a visual and documentary record of creative workshops conducted by the design collective Tomato during the period 2000 to 2002.
Edited by Ed Panar, alongside Junko Ayata and Toshiki Hoshino, the volume captures the process, sketches, and outcomes of workshops held in Tokyo and possibly other global locations.
With bilingual presentation (Japanese/English), it functions as a work-in-progress archive of experimental studio methodologies.
Over the past three years, tomato has initiated 12 workshops in 6 different cities, bringing together people from around the world who are interested in exploring their own creativity. The workshops create a space in which everyone is encouraged to explore and expand their understanding of their individual creative process and to share these discoveries with each other through the creation of work and conversations. Several members of tomato are present to initiate and stimulate the conversation rather than to dictate and impose their ideas on the way things “should be;” an approach that emphasizes the responsibility of each participant to understand and appreciate their own perspective. This approach helps some participants to see their own self-imposed boundaries in a new light, allowing them to take in a new perspective on their work and process.