コラボレーション
Hacoaでは異業種と取り組み、異素材を組み合わせることで生まれる商品開発にも挑戦しています。
「素材を活かすため、技術を活かすための商品デザイン」。例えば、異素材である鉄と木で何が生まれるか。鉄を加工するだけの職人と、木を加工するだけの職人で、どのような技術が生まれるのか、どんなことも始めてみないと分からないことは多いものです。
商品を生み出すプロセスでは、様々な対話があり、主張や妥協もあった上で、お互いの技術を知り合う関係性が生まれます。もちろん、それぞれの職人のプライドも育まれます。
業界や産地を越えることで、それぞれの経験や知恵を活かし、横の繋がりを広げていくものづくりを行っています。
Collaboration
We have tried collaborative projects with different industries and have taken on the challenge of developing products created by combining different materials with wood.
“A product designed to make the most use of the materials themselves and to bring out the best in the technology.”
For example, what would be born from a combination of the different materials, iron and wood ? What kind of ideas would be born if craftsmen who used only iron and craftsmen who used only wood team up?
You will never know the result if you don’t try it.
In the process of creating products by collaborating with craftsmen from different industries, we will be come to know the skills of each other through dialogue, disagreements and compromises.
Of course, this will foster the pride of each craftsman.
By transcending the industries and local traditions, we make use of our own experiences and the expertise of each others, and are carrying out manufacturing that expands our bonds.