Craft, Culture, and Nature –
Cultivating perspective and imagination to reweave the fragments
Urban and natural, cultural and industrial, bodily and everyday
Relationships that were once intertwined have, over time, come to be treated as separate domains.
We believe that what has been pushed to the margins of modern rationality—crafts, the arts, and the lived landscapes of satoyama—holds vital clues for reweaving the threads of life that have been torn apart.
In the watershed that links the forests of Keihoku with the city of Kyoto—a place where natural flows have long shaped cultural resonance—we open spaces for learning through educational programs, artist residencies, and collaborative projects.
By working closely with local materials and engaging in acts of making, we continue to explore our relationship with the world.
Kyoto in Watershed Perspective
We offer Kyoto, with its rich tapestry of cultural practices woven across time, as a field to help participants to break out of conventional ways of thinking and seeing.
Crafting Perspectives in the Watershed
Craft is born out of the land and lives on through the hands of people. No form of craft can be seperated from the environment, both natural and cultural, in which it was created.
Core Projects
Forest of Craft
Growing the materials for the next generation of, restoring craft to its place in the cycle of nature
Fab Village Keihoku
A wood-centric maker space situated at the neck of the woods, housed in an abandoned primary school.
Siita
Connecting the forest to the sea with wooden laquered surfboards made with local timber.
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