[Shibuya Font General Incorporated Association] In the spring of 2024, the experimental meeting place “Shibuya Font Lab” will open in Harajuku!
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Press release: February 8, 2024
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In the spring of 2024, an experimental meeting place “Shibuya Font Lab” will open in Harajuku!
*7th floor of “Harajuku Square” where “Tokyu Plaza Harajuku “Harakado” will open”
Opening of a gallery and event space (approximately 200 square meters) that embodies diversity and inclusion*
Top: Artwork co-created with people with disabilities Bottom: Art wall of “Shibuya Font Lab”
Shibuya Font General Incorporated Association (co-representatives: Tsutomu Furuto, Ayumu Isomura, hereinafter referred to as the “Company”) will relocate to the 7th floor of “Harajuku Square” in the spring of 2024, creating “Shibuya Font Lab”, a gallery and event space that embodies diversity and inclusion. We will open.
“Harajuku Square” is a facility that Tokyu Land Corporation’s commercial facility “Tokyu Plaza Harajuku “Harakado” will open on April 17, 2024. Our company is the tenant, creator, and owner of “Tokyu Plaza Harajuku “Harakado””. We plan to collaborate with designers as well as various companies and organizations around Harajuku.
Panoramic view of Tokyu Plaza Harajuku “Harakado” scheduled to open on April 17, 2024 (photographed by our company)
* About “Shibuya Font Lab” *
“Shibuya Font” connects people with disabilities, students, welfare organizations, and companies and organizations with people they have never had contact with through art and design.*
has been created.
As a result, the people with disabilities involved developed a sense of self-esteem, eventually becoming artists, and expanding their connections with society. Furthermore, not only people with
disabilities*
All the people involved generated new awareness and seeds of ideas* through interaction.
This is an innovative approach from Shibuya aimed at realizing a society of diversity and inclusion, and it is now spreading across the country as a “local font.”
At Shibuya Font’s new base * “Shibuya Font Lab” *, * people with disabilities and their communities will be able to interact in an unprecedented way *
We will create a place where anyone can have fun, regardless of whether they have a disability, or not.
A new message of “shogai” that removes the stereotype and accepts diverse characteristics and interpretations* “Shogai can be
interesting.”*
We will continue to send out the following.
Art wall of “Shibuya Font Lab”
Co-creation with people with disabilities and students (1)
Co-creation with people with disabilities and students (2)
Shibuya Font official homepage Local font official homepage
Until “Shibuya Font Lab” was created
Write down your thoughts about Shibuya Font
Organize keywords obtained in groups
share ideas
idea brainstorming
Consideration of interior design
Prototype of original designed furniture
In order to open the new base, we worked with Shibuya Ward, a support office for people with disabilities in Shibuya Ward, and NPO Social Venture Partners Tokyo for approximately three years.
inquiry
We are looking for companies and organizations to cooperate and collaborate on projects that utilize our new base “Shibuya Font Lab” to communicate the philosophy of diversity and inclusion. Let’s collaborate on innovative initiatives that leverage Shibuya Font’s knowledge and know-how in welfare, design, and art. If you are interested, please contact us using the form below.
150-0001 6-31-21 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Harajuku Square 7F Shibuya Font General Incorporated Association “Shibuya Font Lab” *Business at the above address will start from April 17, 2024.
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