道具は、手の続き。
Hikari Kōbō Festival of Tools & Hands
Kyoto 2047
Machines that learn the hand. Tools made for the people next to you.
Oct 14–16, 2047Okazaki Works Hall, Kyoto
Programme
Three days at Okazaki Works Hall and along the canal outside it. Talks in the morning, open benches all afternoon.
Day 1
The hand
Tools that learn a grip, a stroke, a habit.
- Opening walk along the Okazaki canal Canal steps
- Teaching a plane to feel the grain Hall A
- Open benches: bring a tool, leave with a better one The yard
Day 2
The repair
Machines built to be opened, fixed and handed on.
- The repair counter, live Hall B
- Spare parts market The yard
- Lantern talk: ten years of fixing things Canal steps
Day 3
The neighbour
Tools made for the people next to you.
- Looms that remember a weaver Hall A
- Apprentice exchange All workshops
- Closing supper on the engawa Terrace
Makers
Three of the forty makers who bring their benches to Okazaki.
Swipe for all three
Sora Ishikawa
Toolmaker, Kyoto
Builds joinery machines that learn from a carpenter's stroke.
Kofi Mensah
Repair engineer, Osaka
Runs a counter where machines are fixed by the people who use them.
Hana Ueda
Textile engineer, Nishijin
Fits old looms with gears that remember a weaver's tension.
Workshops
Small groups, real tools, and something to take home. Every workshop runs once a day.
Teach a machine your grip
Guide a brass arm through a carving stroke until it repeats it, then change the stroke and watch it learn again.
Repair, don't replace
Open a broken clock or radio, find the fault with a mentor, and leave with it working.
Indigo and punched cards
Weave a small cloth on a loom you program with cards you punch by hand.
Manifesto
A good tool makes the person holding it more capable, never less needed.
Hikari Kōbō is three days for the people who make tools and the people who use them. We show work that is repaired more than replaced, taught more than programmed, and made for a neighbour before a market.
手で考え、手で直す。
Passes
Pick the days you want. Every pass includes the yard and the open benches.
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Day pass
One day of talks, the yard and the open benches.
¥6,000
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Festival pass
All three days, one workshop of your choice and the closing supper.
¥15,000
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Apprentice pass
All three days, for students and apprentices under 25.
¥2,000