ASIBA Research Notes

Toward Creative Entrepreneurship,

ASIBA is an entity where people with diverse skills and knowledge come together to form a cyborg-like collective. We create things that cannot be done alone—or would take too long to realize—by collaborating with like-minded members from different fields. As a result, we are moving forward while overcoming challenges such as age, the youth of our team, and time constraints.

This book not only documents the process of how teams have been formed and projects created to date but also embodies that process.Not everything goes smoothly. Tensions can arise at times. Through the production of this book and our rebranding efforts, we have once again come to realize that one of our major challenges is how to continue to resist and maintain balance (in a positive sense) in order to keep envisioning a world that we believe is the best possible for us right now.

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Semi-Public, Editing, Meetings

It would be a waste to process three years’ worth of accumulated material on my own, and without feedback from multiple perspectives, it would simply rot away. Since we don’t yet have enough material to spark discussion through a full “public” release, we’ll first take a look back at our journey so far through a “semi-public” format.By projecting each project onto the four agendas—Play, Public, Provisional, and Daily Life—what kinds of questions can we sculpt from them?The abstract questions that emerged from this “semi-public editorial meeting” experiment are like a “illegal dumping” of words about the future by the various people surrounding the ASIBA collective—and that is precisely why “editing” them is so rewarding.How will the practices and ideas that have accumulated in such a dynamic manner connect to the contexts of architecture, design, and society ? We held four “meetings” in Kameido to discuss such visions for ASIBA’s future and documented them as a zine.

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002Introduction: Yuta Nihei / Masaki Morihara 006Table of
Contents 008Designing the
“Semi-Public Editorial Meeting”: Mizuki Igata (Editor)

Play and Humanity

D-1: Drafting Room, Barracks, Smoking Area—Masaki Morihara (Facilitator)
PROJECTS
P-1: Creative League
P-2: ASIBA Creative Challenge 2025
P-3: Creative-LAB.
P-4: yomiyomi
P-5: Faatto
ESSAYS
E-1: A Short Appendix on Play: Tamaki Nishiyama E-2
: Seriously Goofing Off /I Want to Play—Kotori Shigematsu E-3 A Cigarette
Pack Looks Like a Coffin—Kunitaro Inoue E-4 Log of the Day I Generated “Unknown
Trash”: Who Am I Making This For?—Airi Iwata D-2 While Talking About
Play, I Was Thinking About Getting Bored—Masaki Morihara (Facilitator)

The Public and Citizens

D-4: Urbanists, Piloti, Mamdani—Hiromi Takano (Facilitator)
PROJECTS
P-7: Culvert Shopping District P-8:
FFF Conference
P-9: Sangenjaya Proposal P-10:
Government Workshop: Nakano
Ayase P-11: Two-Tatami Architecture P-12:
Maki
Competition
ESSAYS E-5: Design: “Creativity” as a “Means”“Creativity” as a “Means”—Masaki Morihara E-6 “The Creative and the Public”

from the Perspective of ANKYOBATION E-7 A New Reality: “Romance” and Creativity—Yuzu Kaneko E-8 A Glimpse
into“Public”—Hirokan
Handa E-9: Renewing Fishing Gear, Renewing Customs—Yasumasa Masabayashi
D-5: Upanishadic Philosophy, Place, Brunelleschi—Hiromi Takano (Facilitator)

The Provisional and Everyday Life

D-7 Price Tags, PVC Pipes, and Hyperobjects—Yuta Nihei(Facilitator)
PROJECTS
P-13: Deconstruction Bus Stop P-14:
Relink
P-15: Demolition Material Recycling Research P-16:
Glass Resource Recycling Project
P-17: Kameido Garage・YOHJOH P-18:
Blankspace
P-19: Yaesu
Temporary
Use ESSAYS E-10: A Sense of Discomfort Seen Through Deconstruction ── A Platform Connecting Materials Through Reuse—Eisuke Honda E-11
When is Kameido Garage?—Nozomi Sudo E-12 Temporariness Embedded
in Design: Behind the Scenes of the YOHJOH (Kameido) Logo Production Behind the Scenes—neighby
E-13 Kameido Diary—August–October 2025—Yuta Nihei + Yuu Yamaji
D-8 The River Flows On Unceasingly, Yet I Continue to Swim Here—Yuta Nihei (Facilitator)

Technology and Craftsmanship

D-10: Risograph, 404, Akihabara Electric Town—Nozomi Sudo (Facilitator)
PROJECTS
P-20: Camera of Memory / Suido Road Workshop
P-21: Crayons from the Forest P-22:
Project NESS
P-23: Living Lens
P-24: Demolition Material Auction P-25:
Nessum
ESSAYS
E-14: Technology and Reality—Incidents, Accidents, and Multiple Piles of Rubble by Miri Watanabe
E-15: The Art of Pretending to Be a Branch—Rui Minemura E-16
: The Story of Crayon Development—Kiichi Takeda E-17: Escaping
Boring Cities and Boring Science Fiction—Rigo Kagami D-12: Infinity
and Modest Resistance—Nozomi Sudo(Facilitator)

Minutes of the Semi-Public Editorial Meeting

D-3 May 19, 2026 “Technology and Artisans”
D-6 May 21, 2026 “The Public and Citizens”
D-9 May 25, 2026 “Provisionality and Everyday Life”
D-12 May 27, 2026 “Play and Humanity”

164 About ASIBA
170 Keywords
172 Projects
174 Project Credits
189 Members
190 Editor’s/Designer’s Afterword

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