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Director / Project Manager
A director role responsible for planning and driving multiple projects, moving creative questions toward social implementation across fields.
POSITION
This position is responsible for proposing, planning, and driving multiple projects. Working with stakeholders such as ASIBA's partner companies and local governments, you will develop prototypes and field experiments starting from design research, and move client work forward. It is ideal for people with cross-disciplinary vision and the ability to implement, and for those who find fulfillment in giving shape to creative questions and setting them in motion.
If you are not sure which position suits you best, or want to get involved in some way but have not yet decided how, please apply for this position first.
PROJECT EXAMPLES
ASIBA Creative League 4th
How do you build your own world, beyond today's “right answers”? From April to July 2026, ASIBA ran “ASIBA Creative League 4th,” a four-month mentorship program for young players in the creative field. At a time when economic rationality and “social correctness” are demanded more strongly than ever, simply making what you genuinely want to make has become harder than ever for young people. This program was designed as a space of solidarity, built to let participants pursue “making what they want to make” and “growing it into a business within society” at the same time. Designers, artists, engineers, and architects — makers who transcend their titles — came together with peers, mentors, and a range of partners, aiming to reach, together, a world none of them could have reached alone.
Kaichiku Teiryujo @ Former Takashima Dai-7 Elementary School
How do you pass down memory from a school slated for demolition? In 2025, the demolition was decided for the former Takashima Dai-7 Elementary School, next to the Takashimadaira housing complex. The school opened in 1979, closed in 2007, and had sat unused for 18 years — and people gathered to spend one last stretch of time together in the building. “It really is lonely, isn't it,” a graduate murmured, picking an old educational-goals notice off the wall. Kaichiku Teiryujo hands over materials, pries up flooring, stays overnight in the closed school, and makes work there — a record of one response to a disappearing place. It reframes demolition not as an ending, but as the point where materials and memory begin to be carried forward into the community.
Ankyo Shopping Street U35 Idea Competition
Beneath the five shopping streets near Komagome Station, the Yatagawa River once flowed. The river disappeared underground as an ankyo — a covered, culverted waterway — but its traces remain in the winding roads and subtle undulations of the land today. “At this rate, the town will grind to a halt.” Starting from that sense of crisis felt by the neighborhood association next to Tabata Ginza, ASIBA designed an idea competition that reframed the cluster of shopping streets as a single continuous surface along the ankyo, and asked what future it could hold. In partnership with “Makicompe,” the project drew idea proposers into the local community, planting seeds with a long view despite their modest scale. From 59 entries submitted nationwide, nine teams were selected through town walks, planning meetings with residents, and a public review, and are now moving into an implementation phase called “ANKYOBATION.”
REQUIREMENTS
- Step 1 | Entry
- Step 2 | Casual interview (online, 30 min)
- Step 3 | Selection (1 week)
- Step 4 | Provisional hiring
- Step 5 | Trial period (1 month)
- Step 6 | Full hiring
ENTRY
Please fill out the entry form. Let's start with a casual interview!
If none of the above fits, or you're not sure which applies to you, feel free to get in touch below.