Source: Peatix

Today, we live in a world overflowing with countless amounts of data and content. Much of this content is produced before it has a chance to be consumed. The emergence of generative AI and other technologies has dramatically changed the balance between the production and consumption of data and content.

In such a situation, what is difficult to digitize? For example, it may be the disappearance of "craftsmanship." While there are many "craftsmanships" in Japan, many of them are disappearing without being properly mitigated or preserved due to the aging of craftsmen and a lack of successors of the next generation.

A joint project between DENSO Corporation and FabCafe Tokyo, TECHNO GRAPHICAL DATA ARCHIVE (TGDA) is a project that aims to digitally archive disappearing craftsmanship based on the Tokaido and rediscover its value. This time, we will explore the theme of technology and archives through the TGDA project.

In today's world, where a wide variety of content is generated and overflows, perhaps what we will need going forward is the act of "archiving," which involves looking at, organizing, and utilizing the subject of things.

In the second half of the event, we will invite Fukushima Yukihiro, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Letters, Keio University, an expert in "archives studies," to speak.

What is the TGDA Project?
The total amount of data generated, acquired, replicated, and consumed worldwide in 2020 is estimated to be 64.2 zettabytes (1 zettabyte (ZB) is 10^21 bytes = 1 billion terabytes (TB) = 1 trillion gigabytes (GB)). The amount of data generated in the world is expected to continue to increase, reaching more than 180 zettabytes by 2025. While the amount of data in the world is increasing at an accelerating rate, there is also data that cannot be recorded or inherited.

For example, there are craftsmanship and techniques that are passed down orally. In Japan, in particular, craftsmen are aging, and many techniques are lost without digital data. The TECHNO GRAPHICAL DATA ARCHIVE (TGDA), a joint project between DENSO and FabCafe, aims to be a platform that digitizes undigitized technologies, makes them open, increases their value, and passes them on.

The guests
Yoshihide Hayakawa
Arashi Shibori: Restoration Shibori Artist
Born in a dyeing family home in Arimatsu-cho, Midori-ku, Nagoya. He has been creating works as a tie-dye artist for 50 years, and has been a part of the history of Arimatsu. As he approaches his final chapter, he continues to present works that go beyond the concept of tie-dyeing, with the theme of "communicating and tie-dyeing."
https://www.arashi-hayakawa.com/

Yukihiro Fukushima
Associate Professor, Faculty of Letters, Keio University; Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo
Born in Kochi Prefecture in 1973. Interested in digital archives, MLA collaboration, archives, etc. After working at the Kyoto Prefectural Library and Archives, Kyoto Prefectural Library, and the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies at the University of Tokyo, he assumed his current position in 2021. At the Kyoto Prefectural Library and Archives, he was responsible for the cultural heritage repair of modern administrative documents, the public release of Showa-period documents, the memory heritage registration of the Toji Yuri documents, and the web release under CC BY. At the Kyoto Prefectural Library, he was involved in formulating service plans and building systems. He has co-authored and co-edited "Open Public Documents: Raising the Issue of 'Digital Public Documents'" Benseisha, 2023, co-authored "Archive Genealogy in the Digital Age" Misuzu Shobo, 2022, "Mausoleums as Cultural Properties and World Heritage Sites: Symposium Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the 'Limited Opening of Mausoleums'" Shinsensha, 2021, and "Considering Urban Spaces during the Occupation" Suiseisha, 2020. He is the chairman of the Special Committee on Cultural Property Preservation of the Japanese Association of Historical Studies, a director of the Digital Archives Society, a member of the Japan Archives Society, and a member of the Committee to Review the Construction of Future Academic Information Systems.
https://researchmap.jp/fukusima-y

Hiroyuki Yoshioka
DENSO Corporation Design Department
He studied information design and media art at Tama Art University. He then traveled to Berlin, Germany, where he encountered FAB culture and bioart. While working as a contracted researcher at the art research framework BCL and the Waseda University School of Science and Engineering, he created works with researchers in the field of biology based on the idea of speculative design. In 2015, he organized an exhibition called "Ghost in the Cell" at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, displaying biological works. He studies art and design, and strives every day to apply the skills and imagination he gained there to society through vision design.
https://design.denso.com/designers/2023/09/yuki-yoshioka.html

Facilitator
Daiki Kanaoka
FabCafe Tokyo COO / CTO
After studying architecture in the UK, he participated in the launch of FabCafe Tokyo as a Fab engineer, utilizing his extensive knowledge of digital fabrication. He served as the leader of the Fab department and organized technical workshops. After that, he worked on architectural design using computational design at Noiz Architects. He joined Loftwork in 2015. Utilizing his knowledge of digital fabrication and overseas networks, he has been involved in a wide range of projects, including launching FabCafes around the world, collaborating with overseas creators and producing works, designing educational programs with local governments and overseas universities, directing art exhibitions, managing communities, and planning projects using computational design. Since 2019, he has served as the leader of FabCafe Tokyo as the business manager. Since 2021, he has been in charge of planning and implementing the "Connecting Forms" exhibition at the Tate Laboratory of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo. Academic staff member at the University of Tokyo. Part-time lecturer at Tokyo University of the Arts.
https://loftwork.com/jp/finding/loftwork_is_07

Risa Hiraga
Producer, Loftwork Inc.
Having spent her childhood in the UK and Singapore, and having a sister with Down's syndrome, she has made the realization of "a society where everyone can shine" her life mission. After graduating from university, she worked at an advertising agency before moving to a welfare facility to provide care. During this time, she began to question the binary opposition between those who provide support and those who receive it, and she strongly felt that care should not be limited to certain people, but should be open to the whole of society. She reaffirmed the importance of mental health. In 2024, she launched "moya studio," an incense brand that uses Japanese wood, and has been expanding both domestically and internationally since its launch in New York. She joined Loftwork with the aim of creating new social contexts and working to solve problems through co-creation. She graduated from Keio University SFC.

Discussion Topics
In an increasingly complex society, "archival studies" as a tool to change the flow of time and understand the world macroscopically
The act of "archiving" and society
How to archive what cannot be digitized
Digital technology and the future of archives
Distribution and utilization of archived data as open data

I recommend this hotel
People who are interested in the field of "archives studies"
Those who want to create new value through the use of digital technology in addition to existing technologies
Those who want to reuse and rediscover materials and techniques
Those who want to understand things from a macro perspective in this modern age where new topics emerge at an accelerating rate.
People interested in digital archive technologies and methods
People who are interested in craftsmanship and traditional arts
People who are interested in combining new and existing technologies

Organizer: FabCafe Tokyo
Co-organized by Loftwork Inc.

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