About

レッドドットスクールは、日本・アジア・アメリカをはじめとする世界に開かれた。建築デザインビルド教育を提供します。オンライン・対面のプログラムを通じて、世界のクリエイティブをつなぎ、新旧のテクノロジーを探究し、未来を創造します。「デザインを通じて、自由になること」が私たちのミッションです。

The Red Dot School is a bridge between various communities of practice in the field of architecture. We offer online and in-person studio courses that connect designers around the world, explore old and new technologies, and dream up possible futures.

The Red Dot School grew out of a network of friends, artists, designers, architects, professors. and social organizers—all living/working in Japan or within the Pacific Rim—who have coalesced around a few key questions:

_In regions experiencing rapid population decline, how can architects incorporate strategies for locally-focused growth that connect an aging population with the next generation into their work?

_If an island is a microcosm within which the repercussions of global socioeconomic forces are written in miniature, what can we learn by studying it closely? What stories of adaptation and resilience does it have to tell us?

_What are the on-the-ground applications for algorithmically-driven processes of sorting / analyzing architectural salvage? How can computational thinking assist in creating a zero-waste deconstruction / reconstruction loop?

_Can a small international architecture school (specializing in closed-system methodologies for the built environment) serve as a socioeconomic driver for its neighborhood? Can it learn from, honor and amplify the circular social practices that exist around it?

Our 2024 summer studio is a chance for us to conduct participatory research that seeks to answer these questions. We intend this course to be useful to architects and designers who are grappling with similar thoughts, and who are interested in getting their hands dirty while generating a small body of drawings and models that explore the possibilities of local circular architectural systems, over a 10 day course.We have been conducting architecture studios on Sagishima in collaboration with islanders since 2017. Our course operates out of the oldest standing building on the island—formerly a clinic.

Our office in Ichikawa, Chiba is home to a collective of architects, designers and craftspeople, and serves as our studio headquarters when holding programs in the Tokyo region.

Sagishima
Mukōtanoura-5008 Sagiurachō,
Mihara, Hiroshima 723-0022
〒723-0022 広島県三原市鷺浦町向田野浦５００８

Ichikawa
3 Chome-14-4 Minamiono,
Ichikawa, Chiba 272-0132
〒272-0132 千葉県市川市南大野３丁目１４−4

一般社団法人 The Red Dot School
本社所在地:三原市東町3-8-35
代表理事：河野直

Sagishima, Seto Naikai, Japan

Our schoolhouse

Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan

Our office

ブライアン・オルテガ・ウェルチ

U.Cバークレーで教育を学び、ハーバードGSDで建築を学ぶ。アメリカ国内・世界各国で、K-12スクール、学習センター、夏期プログラムを共同設立し教育活動に従事。フォーマルな学習とインフォーマルな学習、機関とコミュニティ、仕事と遊びの「間」に存在する場所が持つ変革的な可能性を探求している。現在、Certain Measuresのデザイナー、ハーバードGSDの研究者、および東京大学設計スタジオのインストラクターです。サンフランシスコと佐木島にて二拠点生活中。

Bryan Ortega-Welch

Studied education at Berkeley and architecture at Harvard. Co-founded K-12 schools, learning centers and summer programs in the U.S. and internationally. Believes in the transformative potential of places that exist in between formal and informal learning, institution and community, work and play. Currently a designer at Certain Measures, a researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and an instructor at Tokyo University. Lives in between San Francisco & Sagishima.

河野直

京都大学大学院修了後、パートナーの桃子とつみき設計施工社を創業。設計者と職人、住まい手が学び合い、ともにつくる「参加型リノベーション」の実践。12年間で国内外400回以上のDIYワークショップを実施し、建築現場を学びの場へと開く。著書に「ともにつくるDIYワークショップ」等。SDレビュー鹿島賞など受賞歴多数。現在東京大学に研究員として在籍し、連続講義「つくるとは」や修士設計スタジオ「解体と再構築」のディレクターを務める。

Nao Kono
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Studied architecture at Kyoto University. Co-founded Tsumiki Design & Construction with his partner Momoko Kono - a firm dedicated to participatory renovation, skill-sharing and the preservation of Japanese timbercraft. Currently a Lecturer at the University of Tokyo. Raising three daughters in a small city just outside of Tokyo.

河野桃子
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京都大学大学院修了後、パートナーの直と共につみき設計施工社を創業、運営。3人娘の母。空間をつくるプロセスが、関わる全ての人たちにとって幸せな時間になることを大切に、日々、設計、施工、会社の運営に奮闘中。学生時代にはせんだいデザインリーグ2009にて日本一を受賞。その後、SDレビュー鹿島賞など受賞歴多数。

Momoko Kono
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Studied architecture at Kyoto University. Co-founded Tsumiki Design & Construction with her partner Nao Kono. Fosters a design culture that cherishes the process of creating spaces together, in which both design and construction is a joyful process for all involved. As a student, she won Japan's top prize in the 2009 Sendai Design League 2009. Since then, she has been the recipient of awards including the SD Review Kashima Prize. Raising three daughters in a small city just outside of Tokyo.

Yoshihige Kawamoto
(Isso)
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Located in the Seto Inland Sea that stretches between Hiroshima and Ehime prefectures, Sagi Island is where I practice agriculture and engage in the art of haiku composition. Furthermore, I am dedicated to archiving the history, culture, and arts of my hometown as my life's work. I am committed to contributing my humble efforts to the operation of our school, where talented architecture students from various countries gather.

河本吉重　
俳号　一草
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広島、愛媛の両県に連なる芸予瀬戸内双鷺洲、佐木島で農を生業として俳句を詠んでおります。あわせて郷土の歴史、文化、芸術のアーカイブを自身のライフワークとしております。各国からの気鋭の建築学生が集う本校運営に側面から微力を尽くす所存です。

東西の日輪点じ島熱る
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