Beyond design, returning a place to its own vitality
Practice
systemic study anchored from the bottom-up. Not a vision applied.What I bring into a project is a place: its artisans, its materials, its gestures, its memories. Not a vision applied to it, but what already lives there, gathered and brought forward so design can rise from it instead of being laid over it.
A method born from my years with the Island Academy in the Seto Inland Sea, under Kokusai Bueki, and now applied across territories, currently Japan and Laos, under the Nu-Pieds project.
Open to brands, foundations, governments, developers.
What I bring back.
climate, people, gestures, crafts, rituals, materials, commons.
a foundation for the creative team to anchor their work in the place itself.
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Briefing. A first conversation. The project, the depth needed.
On the ground. I go. I meet, I read, I gather.
The reading. A corpus of visual, written, material.
Handover. I present. I stay close, or step back, according to needs.
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Single mission → one site, one deliverable.
Long collaboration across project phases.
Partnership → continuous, across territories.
For commissions and conversations:
