[Column] A Mature Future

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[Column] A Mature Future

by MUJI on Friday, 20 January 2012 at 01:08

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Friends' notes Pages' notes It is often said that everything is reaching its limit and that we are moving towards decelerating growth or a degenerating economy. However, with just coordinate axes such Notes about me as "growth" and "decelerating growth", our future is a future without dreams. To change negatives into positives, other indicators for changing the framework of our thinking are necessary. The heightening of environmental consciousness in the past 10 years has encouraged a radical change in consciousness in Japan too. The fact that fossil fuels are limited is also something that has been carved into our consciousness. Businesses are intent on the development of low-energy products. However, despite the move to replacing products with those that are economical moving forward, all told the amount of garbage isn't decreasing, and looking at society as a whole, not contributing to reductions in CO2 is a big problem Japan faces. A larger framework is needed as an indicator for society as a whole. And it must be a goal that has dreams to it. How about we label this goal "a mature society". In a mature society, rather than "an object itself", what becomes more important is "the context of an object" how to have it, one's manner of living. How an object is owned is akin to the way the owner lives their life. Things that have aged rather than new things. Adult discretion rather than youth. Knowing how to effectively put things on hand to practical use, to not have a lot of things, rather than simply consuming things. The concept of values where these actions have us feeling a sense of "affluence" is perhaps nascent. And supporting this is an aesthetic sense of day-to-day-life. It is an aesthetic consciousness rooted in the Japanese culture that is in us all. It is not taking Japanese culture as a style, but rather shifting our focus to the "consciousness" at its foundation. It's not focusing on the shape of things but on their context. In Japan, when looking at a tea ceremony bowl, people peer inside it. The space inside the bowl is called the "mikomi", and bowls that have a deep mikomi, that give us a sense of depth, are considered good dishes. Drawing pictures on the back of the mikomi is also one technique for giving a sense of depth. In a single bowl, not only the beauty of the contours of the bowl, but also the way it feels when held in one's hands and the special depth one feels when looking at it are infused. This could also be called "avor". Perhaps it means

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