I unearthed one that I intended to take home and read.
Journal of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers vol.112, no.1083.
Archive for 2009年9月
Slow technology (Making things for joy)
KENMEI NAGAOKA
Aren’t the “tools loved for a long time” collected by Nagaoka Genmei, things that beautifully become dirty?
About Nature, about richness
“to be natural” is “to have intrinsicness” – Katai
“to be rich” is “to have hope” – Genta
“to have hope” is to have some vision, but not the ability to predict all.
Fuudo
Natural features: wind and soil (Fuudo). Food.
Lumpy Playground
I heard about a preschool that deliberately made its playground lumpy. The children became brighter. I’m sure they’ve become experts at falling over.
Apparently, the field athletic, which is actually dangerous if there’s a fall, is the most popular.
Meiji shrine, which can’t be visited without walking a long path from the car park, vs a shrine where there is adjacent parking.