Print the Future

With immense pleasure we helped to put together a modest showcase of furniture designed by for 杉工場] . It will be on show for a few days. We will be around in the 23rd for the pre-opening.

If you are around please drop by!
It’s here (above the new Sugikojo showroom in Tokyo / Kagurazaka):

31 Yokoteramachi, Shinjuku City, Tokyo 162-0831

Below the info in Japanese from 杉工場]

神楽坂店のオープンに合わせ、イベントを行います。

デザイナー Koen Tossijn (アムステルダム) と 杉工場（うきは市）の職人達による、
ものづくりの新しい形。

2019年春に Studio the Future によって始まった実験的企画 “TOGETHER” が、
“CONNECTED” までつながりました。

シリーズ化された“TOGETHER” “CONNECTED”の数々のアイテムが、
うきはの工場から飛び出して、初めてご覧いただけます。

Studio the Future による空間と書籍・型録をお楽しみください。

Finally Day 1 of the . If you are around please drop by. We have a lot of zines and books that are new… so new that we haven’t even been able to show it to people who are in it yet. Sorry about that!

We also want to thank the Netherlands Embassy in Tokyo and the Mondriaan Fonds come and see us at

The 'Zines are being printed in Amsterdam, but for in art week we asked to make a pre-edition of #2 in an edition of 50 copies. Get them or dm us.

thank you to , Maru, , kids.

And always a shout out to

VRIJHAVEN PROJECT

日本語で [ 自由港プロジェクト ]と題する本プロジェクトは、日本とオランダの様々な作家やアーティストへのインタビュー取材を主としています。特設ウェブサイトの公開、日英併記のインタビューとエッセイ、写真から構成される５種類のZINEの刊行、オランダと日本の様々な作家を紹介する6種類のZINEの刊行をランダムに行います。それらが発表された後、全てを1冊にまとめた書籍を発表します。本プログラムは在日オランダ大使館とDutchCultureの支援を受けています。

Today we find ourselves at a crossroads — both culturally and socially, both politically and economically; perhaps we always are. In times like these there is a need for creativity, for new ideas and proper reflection on the past, the future and the present. What is a Vrijhaven, what does it mean to be a free or safe place for the necessary creativity to be nurtured and flourish. Through a series of interviews with creative practitioners in Japan and the Netherlands, we reflect on our own practice, our own work, and the context we find ourselves in. Not as a way to provide answers to any questions, but just as an open conversation. Perhaps this will add a little to the ongoing dialogue, and maybe not, but either way we can add voices otherwise not heard to the discussion.

This program is supported by the Embassy of the Netherlands in Tokyo, and DutchCulture.

There are 5 zines of interviews and essays. These are the Vrijhaven zines. Then there are 6 zines, each introducing one Japanese maker and one NL based maker — who is in what Zine is done at random.

Together these zines form the Common Future / Vrijhaven program. This year's zines will be bundled into a limited edition book once all the zines have been released.

Today our friends are flying back to Tokyo (and London) and we are feeling quite sad. Thanks to everyone who joined and hosted us the past few days. This is just the beginning! Amsterdam/Tokyo 2020 connection COMMON FUTURE program, keep you posted!

PRESS PUBLISH ACTION
PANEL DISCUSSION with:
WEI GUAN (UNFOLD Shanghai)
EMILIE SITZIA (UvA / Uni Maastricht)
YAMANDU ROOS (Artist)
MARC ROBBEMOND (Athenaeum Nieuwscentrum)

We are going to be in Tokyo this week to build up a small exhibition / installation to launch a new book . This book documents the first stages of the collaboration between Koen (Amsterdam) and (Ukiha). We are going to be at on October 1st and from 1800 will be having some beers. Please drop by if you feel like it. The collaboration between Koen and Sugikoujou was part of supported by the program -NL (a program created by the Dutch Embassies in Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo). This particular project was made possible with additional support from Ukiha City, and of course all the people that worked so hard to make it happen: you know who you are.

We made another 24H Book during the Weekender in De School June 8-9. Thank you everybody that came by our temporary studio in the Cinema Lokaal to consciously and unconsciously contribute to this publication. We still have some copies, you can pick it up for free. 24H Book 004 “Resonance”, format A4, 24 pages, printed on Munken Premium 1.8 @ De School