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Yuma Harada

Art Director / Designer | Representative, UMA /design farm

Born in Osaka in 1979. Graduated from studies as an architecture major in the design program of Kyoto Seika University’s Faculty of Art. Representative, UMA/design farm. Special Visiting Professor at Nagoya University of the Arts. Based in Osaka, at the center of projects related to culture, welfare and community, he aims to visualize philosophy and to create new experiences through graphics, space, exhibitions and planning and development. He also works on design through continued dialogues and experiments focusing on “Think Together, Make Together.” He is the author of “One Day Esquisse: Design class for finding ‘a point of view’ in thinking.”

*Titles and profiles are those at the time of the director’s tenure

Yuma Harada Director’s Message “Design that Generates a Gaze” Appreciate inconvenience (or irrelevance) and neutrality. Design to reflect your caring eyes for those who are left behind by society. 2022.03.28SymbiosisSafety
Considering “Design that generates a gaze” Maho Isono × Yuma Harada | What we need is “Design that makes us bother” 2022.03.14
Current Location of Focused Issues Five Ways to Interpret GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2021 — Thought Process of Focused Issues Directors 2021.11.01
Special Interview Dominique Chen × Yuma Harada on Design Starting from “Misunderstanding”2021.02.22
Yuma Harada Director’s Message “Designs for creating a place for distanced people” Power of humanity to re-imagine by learning to see, and to imagine by not seeing Yuma Harada2021.02.04SymbiosisSafety
Considering “design for creating a place for distanced peopleAppraising designs that are supportive of difficulties and problems not so visible from the outsideYuma Harada2020.10.30
Focused Issues Directors’ Symposium What is good design? Examining the role of design in tackling today’s social issues 2020.10.01

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