For the Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation 1, 9th Session, the artist, Hiroshi Fuji, was invited to give a talk titled, “Super-Expression & Super-System: Feeling the gaps as they come”. In his talk about creating values in relation to place, circumstances and people, he made us realize the importance of the editing process before framing something in its style or form. When attempting to express something, I was made aware of the necessity to carefully observe the relationships and time axis in our everyday lives. (Akagi)

For the Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation 1, 8th Session, the author, Maha Harada, was invited to give a talk titled, “Overcoming Hardship: The Mission of Art and Literature in Extreme Conditions”.
Harada focused her talk around 3 of her own books and 3 images that correspond to those works. She mentioned that since the Great East Japan Earthquake, she wondered what she could do as a novelist and took upon the challenge to write, and also firmly stated that whatever hardships she might face in the future, she has vowed to continue writing. She taught us that art and novels have the ability to overcome the challenges in the world. (Akagi)

For the Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation 1, 7th Session, the art director, Yutaro Midorikawa, was invited to give a talk titled, “Invisible Art”.
Midorikawa’s works involve realizing something that is tangible and yet invisible. In our daily lives, there are many things that we know but don’t know, that we are aware of but aren’t aware of, and made us realize that it is in the invisible that our creativity is inspired. Particularly interesting was when he stated that what is significant is acquiring the eye to perceive that “This might be a piece of art work”. (Akagi)

For the Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation 1, 6h Session, Kenji Yanobe, the contemporary artist, was invited to give a talk titled, “A Passionate Account of My Works”.
He gave a very powerful speech, talking about when, as a child, he saw the empty site of Expo ’70 Osaka and felt that anything could be created from this vacant lot, and that since art is about being free, we should do whatever we want to. In mentioning his works involving major incidents and disasters in Japan and in the world, he gave us some food for thought about the relationship between art and society. (Akagi)

For the Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation 1, 5th Session, Noi Sawaragi, the art critic, was invited to give a talk titled, “The Art of the Japanese Archipelago and Its Foundation”.
When thinking about art in terms of the “Japanese archipelago”, unlike Western Europe from where “art”, as we know it, had generated, Japan has been, from the olden days, victim of many natural disasters including earthquakes, and therefore has always lived with unstable grounds. It was very interesting to hear that pictures depicting past major earthquakes are important in the study of Japanese art. It led us to the thinking that not only is it necessary to consider the Great East Japan Earthquake, but also to study how the Japanese people had coped with past earthquakes. (Akagi)