• OSAKA SALONE
• Official Event
• Talk

Special Event: Tadao Ando Lecture — Go, Osaka! Looking to the World

Lecture theme: Go, Osaka! Looking to the World
Architect: Tadao Ando

Date & Time	September 25 (Fri), from 17:00 (registration opens at 16:30)
Venue	Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (7F, International Conference Hall) [Venue for the Tadao Ando lecture] 2-8 Hommachibashi, Chuo-ku, Osaka 540-0029, Japan
Fee	Free
Registration	[This event is now fully booked due to popular demand] To attend the lecture, you must first register using the OSAKA SALONE 2026 Visitor Registration Form below. How to apply for the lecture 1. After completing visitor registration, you will receive login details for your Visitor My Page at your registered email address. 2. Log in to Visitor My Page and open the Seminar page from the menu. 3. Select Apply to Participate below the Special Event: Tadao Ando Lecture information. On the next screen, click the blue Apply to Participate button at the bottom. 4. Your application is complete when the Application Completed screen appears. https://odw2026.event-lab.jp/v5/registration/visitor/pre_form/ODW/R01 https://odw2026.event-lab.jp/v5/registration/visitor/pre_form/ODW/R01

• OSAKA SALONE
• Official Event
• Seminar

MILANO DESIGNWEEK 2026 Film Screening

Experience one of the world's largest furniture and design festivals through powerful, lifelike 4K footage filmed by Nobuo Yaguchi, one of Japan's leading documentary cinematographers. The screening features commentary by designer Nobuyuki Narigasawa, who planned and produced the project and reported from the event.

Profiles

Nobuo Yaguchi
Documentary Cinematographer / Video Creator

A leading Japanese documentary cinematographer who has spent many years filming the nature, culture and World Heritage sites of the world.

He has shot numerous television programs and documentaries, including the TBS series "World Heritage," "THE World Heritage" and "Sekai Fushigi Hakken!," as well as "Canon Special" and "Panasonic Special."

Over more than 30 years he has visited over 100 countries, recording magnificent nature, precious cultural heritage and people's daily lives on film. He is highly regarded in the field of documentary filmmaking, particularly for his work on natural heritage sites.

He took up 4K footage and aerial drone shooting early on and has filmed around the world. Drawing on a wide range of techniques — from the ground, from the air and at the water's edge — he continues to convey, from the perspectives of "land, sea and sky," the appeal of the nature, architecture and culture that exist only in each place.

In 2019 he formed the video production team "nobunobu" with Nobuyuki Narigasawa, CEO of NOBU ARCHI DESIGN, and is in charge of video production for the design and architecture YouTube channel "jpdesign TV."

Since 2022 he has continued to report and film on location at Milano Design Week (Salone del Mobile.Milano / Fuorisalone), one of the world's largest design events. Drawing on his long experience in documentary filmmaking and 4K video technology, he records the front line of design around the world — architecture, interiors, product design and urban space — in his own visual style.

---

Nobuyuki Narigasawa
Representative Director, NOBU ARCHI DESIGN Co., Ltd.
Creative Producer, jpdesigntv
Advisor, Asahikawa UNESCO Creative City of Design Promotion Council
Advisor, Osaka Design Week
Member, Japan Interior Designers' Association (JID)

From 2000 he spent about ten years as head of the Japan branch of an architectural design firm headquartered in Atlanta, USA, and in 2009 he founded NOBU ARCHI DESIGN Co., Ltd. He handles a wide range of architecture and spatial design, including housing, hotels, medical facilities, commercial facilities and restaurants.

His representative works include Enoshima Island Spa, Hotel Okura Guam, Yuki Hospital and Enoshima Hotel, and he also took part in the Seawood Hotel Miyakojima project with the architect Shin Takamatsu. Yuki Hospital in particular, whose château-inspired architectural design is highly acclaimed, has been used as a filming location for numerous television dramas, films and music videos.

At Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, he was in charge of the design of the "Wellness Smart House" installed in the Iida Group Holdings Pavilion. Through spatial design proposing the living environment of the future, he took part in presenting a new lifestyle that fuses housing, health and technology.

In 2019 he formed the video production team "nobunobu" with documentary cinematographer Nobuo Yaguchi and launched "jpdesign TV," a YouTube channel dedicated to design. Since 2022 he has reported and filmed on location at Milano Design Week every year, sharing the latest trends in architecture, interiors and product design with Japan and holding screenings across the country, actively developing activities that connect Japanese and overseas design culture.

In 2024 he became Japan Project Partner of AMDL CIRCLE, led by Michele De Lucchi, one of Italy's leading architects. He also serves as product manager for the Japanese market launch of PRODUZIONE PRIVATA, the design brand run by De Lucchi, and promotes a wide range of projects including product planning and development, branding, exhibition space planning and marketing.

In 2025 he became an advisor to the Asahikawa Creative City Promotion Council in Asahikawa, Hokkaido.

He is also engaged in regional revitalization and industrial promotion through architecture and design, driving new value creation by leveraging design networks in Japan and abroad.

In 2026 he became an advisor to Osaka Design Week.

Building on his wealth of experience as an architecture and space designer and the broad network he has built through international design projects and communications, he contributes to the development of Japanese design culture and the promotion of international exchange.

Date & Time	September 25 (Fri) 13:00–13:50: Salone del Mobile. Milano 2026 14:00–14:50: FUORISALONE.IT 2026 September 26 (Sat) 13:00–13:50: Salone del Mobile. Milano 2026 14:00–14:50: FUORISALONE.IT 2026
Venue	OS-01 MyDome Osaka (3F) (Seminar venue) 2-5 Hommachibashi, Chuo-ku, Osaka, Osaka 540-0029, Japan
Fee	Free
Registration	You may attend without applying. Seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Standing room is also available in open spaces at the seminar venue.

• OSAKA SALONE
• Official Event
• Other

New Being — Form, Sound and Body

Exhibitor: SINKIROW

A live performance bringing together SINKIROW's forms, musician Saki Oshitani and dancer Chinami Imura.
Forms inspired by fleeting moments of natural beauty reveal new expressions through sound and the body. Rather than treating a work as an object to be viewed, the performance sees it as a presence that resonates with bodies, space and time. Form, sound and movement respond to one another in a dialogue created on the spot, building a shared world.
Grounded in SINKIROW's belief that a work becomes complete when worn, these performances express New Being through a different experience each time.

Date & Time	September 25 (Fri) and 26 (Sat), from 15:00
Venue	OS-01 MyDome Osaka (3F) (Seminar venue) 2-5 Hommachibashi, Chuo-ku, Osaka, Osaka 540-0029, Japan
Fee	Free
Registration	No advance registration required (planned). Details will be announced on SINKIROW's official website and Instagram.
Notes	● Venue Inside the SINKIROW booth ● Official website https://sinkirow.com/ ● Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sinkirow_kobe

• OSAKA SALONE
• Official Event
• Talk

Akihiro Nagaya Talk: A Future Drawn Through Design

Speaker: Yanmar Brand Asset Design Co., Ltd.
Representative Director, Akihiro Nagaya

Date & Time	September 25 (Fri), 16:00
Venue	OS-01 MyDome Osaka (3F) 2-5 Hommachibashi, Chuo-ku, Osaka, Osaka 540-0029, Japan
Fee	Free
Registration	You may attend without applying. Seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Standing room is also available in open spaces at the seminar venue.

• OSAKA SALONE
• Official Event
• Talk

Takeshi Sumi × maruco Talk: Creativity from Osaka and Kansai, Looking Ahead

Speakers:
Photographer and artist, owner of HILL TOP GALLERY / Takeshi Sumi, and photographer maruco

Profile

Takeshi Sumi
Born in Kyoto in 1981. Graduated from the Faculty of Letters at Meiji University and the Department of Information Design at Tama Art University. Lecturer at Kyoto University of the Arts (Uryuyama Gakuen).
Using photography as his main medium under the theme of “discovering the world beyond what can be seen,” he presents work created through a process that values physical sensation. His books include “Sora ni Oyogu” and “Yubi to Hoshi” (both published by Libro Arte) and “Rhythm wears Life” (published by Tonbodama Publishing). Recent exhibitions include “Tokyo Curiosity 2020 Shibuya” (2020, Bunkamura), “Tohaku's Cherry Blossoms and the Shades of Spring” (2022, Myorenji Temple, Kyoto) and “The Insight of Being” (2026, Kyoto Museum of Photography). His work is in collections including that of agnès b.
His notable commissions include the cover of the novel “Polaris ga Furisosogu Yoru” (by Li Kotomi) and the visual for the 20th anniversary of JR Kyoto Isetan. He has also contributed work to “Silhouette Family,” a photo exhibition on LGBTQ+ families organized by Kodomap (General Incorporated Association).
Alongside his artistic practice, he has run HILL TOP GALLERY in Shinsaibashi, Osaka, since 2024, offering young photographers and artists, and those exhibiting in Osaka for the first time, an opportunity to present their work.

---

maruco
Graduated from Osaka University of Arts. A photographer based in Osaka and Nara.
Starting from her own sense of thanatophobia, she creates photographic works that contemplate life and existence.
Currently, drawing on the birth of her child last year and her daily life raising them, she is creating “Tenran no Sora,” a work that looks at the great connections and cycles that link people with nature and the universe.
She seeks to capture the subtle light and signs of life hidden in everyday life, helping people regain their own senses and look again at what truly matters.

[Awards]
International Photography Awards
APA AWARD
SONY THE NEW CREATORS, etc.

[Exhibitions]
KYOTO GRAPHIE KG+ solo exhibition “Run Horse Light”
HILL TOP GALLERY group exhibition “Reclaiming Myself,” etc.

Date & Time	September 26 (Sat), from 11:00
Venue	OS-01 MyDome Osaka (3F) (Seminar venue) 2-5 Hommachibashi, Chuo-ku, Osaka, Osaka 540-0029, Japan
Fee	Free
Registration	You may attend without applying. Seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Standing room is also available in open spaces at the seminar venue.

• OSAKA SALONE
• Official Event
• Seminar

“Photosynthetic Architecture”: Producing Oxygen and Energy through Plant Photosynthesis — with a Report on the Invited Exhibit at Milan Salone 2026

Exhibitor: Setsunan University, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Department of Living and Environmental Design × Department of Life Science

From "Architecture That Is Built" to "Architecture That Is Planted":
"Photosynthetic Architecture" is a proposal to make buildings function like trees. In conventional architecture, walls, windows and roofs play roles such as blocking or admitting light and protecting against wind and rain. In Photosynthetic Architecture, photo-biofuel cells that use plant chloroplasts are built into these elements, turning a building into an "environmental device that produces energy and oxygen" — research and a proposal that fuse design and science.
For example, chloroplasts are extracted from plants that would otherwise be discarded, such as leaves from felled trees or non-standard vegetables, and the solution is placed in translucent double panels or tubes and incorporated into windows, walls, roofs and furniture. The architecture itself then photosynthesizes and produces energy and oxygen. It is not simply "architecture that uses plants" but "an attempt to bring the functions of life into the very composition of architecture."
Proposed by Professors Kawakami and Matsuo of Setsunan University, this world-first proposal was invited to exhibit at Salone del Mobile.Milano in April 2026 and received great acclaim. This time, the actual piece will also be exhibited at OSAKA SALONE.

Speakers
Hinako Kawakami　Professor, Department of Living Environment Design, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Setsunan University
Yasumitsu Matsuo　Professor, Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Setsunan University

Profiles

Hinako Kawakami
Born in 1963. Completed the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Kyoto Institute of Technology; Doctor of Philosophy (Academic Studies). Professor at Setsunan University since 2009. Her main research themes are the spatial concepts of the architect Eileen Gray, and a reassessment of the achievements of the Japanese artists Seizo Sugawara and Kichizo Inagaki, who collaborated with Gray in Paris. Her major papers include "A Study on Design Methods in Eileen Gray's Minimal House E.1027" and "The Background of Seizo Sugawara's Japanese Lacquer Art, Which Eileen Gray Studied" (winner of the Japanese Society for the Science of Design annual paper award), and her books include "Reconsidering Modernists" and "Modernism of Artists." In 2017 she began the joint interdisciplinary research "Photosynthetic Architecture" with Professor Matsuo of the Department of Life Sciences, and continues it to this day.

---

Yasumitsu Matsuo
Born in 1968. Completed the master's program at the Graduate School of Tokyo University of Science and took up a post as assistant at the Faculty of Information Sciences, Teikyo Heisei University. Received a doctorate (Science) by dissertation from Tokyo University of Science in 1997 and became an assistant in the Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science. After serving as associate professor in the Faculty of Engineering at Setsunan University from 2007, he has been a professor in the Faculty of Science and Engineering there since April 2010. His specialties are bioenergy, environmental technology and materials, biophysics, functional physical chemistry and next-generation hydrogen energy. He focuses in particular on research into entirely new hydrogen-generation methods and fuel-cell electrolytes that use biomaterials, which are abundant in nature and have no environmental burden, and has published numerous papers in this field. In 2017 he began the joint interdisciplinary research "Photosynthetic Architecture" with Professor Kawakami of the Department of Living Environment Design, and continues it to this day.

Date & Time	Saturday, September 26, 2026, starts at 16:00 Approximately 45 minutes
Venue	OS-01 MyDome Osaka (3F) (Seminar venue) 2-5 Hommachibashi, Chuo-ku, Osaka, Osaka 540-0029, Japan
Fee	Free
Registration	No application is required to attend. Seats are provided on a first-come, first-served basis. Standing room is also available in the open space of the seminar venue.