“100 Years of Lifestyle Crafts” is a four-part talk event series by Kosuke Ide (Subsequence editor-in-chief), Yuta Nakamura (artist), and Hisaho Hanai (head researcher at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo) that explores the past century of crafts history from the perspective of lifestyle and daily living. By following the evolution of magazines, a form of media which created and continued to update the image of lifestyle, it is possible to also trace the creation and evolution of ways in which the objects of daily living changed thanks to what was introduced within.

This program originally began as a meeting about exhibitions and books organized by the handicrafts magazine Kogei Seika (Shinchosha), but after the realization that it would be great to also make this meeting available to the public, the decision was made to start this series of talk events. The upcoming topics are outlined below, so please don’t hesitate to come down.

1) Lifestyle and the People. 1921-42: From Taisho Democracy to War
2) Avant Garde and Crafts. 1946-70: From Post-War Reconstruction to Rapid Economic Growth
3) Knick-Knacks and Individualism. 1971-95: From the Birth of a Consumerist Society to the Collapse of the Bubble Economy
4) Lifestyle Crafts and Daily Living. 1996-2020: From the Lost Decade to an Accelerating Information-Driven Society

Date: August 28, 2025 (Thursday) 18:00 – 20:00
Venue: Seika Room (SOKO, 71 Yarai-chō, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo)
Capacity: 30

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