NOSIGNER was established by Eisuke Tachikawa exactly ten years ago (in 2006), with the concept of "social design innovation" which aims to bring positive change to the future. Since then its work has criss-crossed various fields of specialization including graphic, product and architectural design, and consciously addressed larger challenges - disaster reconstruction support, regional promotion, renewable energy, sustainable design, and science communication - in which design is surely going to be needed.
"NOSIGNER - Reason behind Forms -" exhibition starts from the hypothesis "What if all designs are imitations of nature, or what if the very act of designing is the act of unconsciously simulating the evolution of nature?" and compares/contrasts artificial and natural objects and explores the purpose within form, as well as ways of conceiving designs, based on the idea that "design is the biology of objects."
The archive exhibition visualizes the WHY behind various issues - design that functions in times of disaster; region and community - and explains the work of NOSIGNER as examples of solutions. We would like to describe a future of expanding design through the wide-ranging projects created by NOSIGNER.