Delivery Date: February 11, 2021 (Thursday/holiday) 14:00 to 15:30
Recording Location: Osaka Science Museum
Speaker: Kazuji (Department of Arts and Sciences, Osaka Science Museum), Keiko Ueki (Department of Arts and Sciences Planning Division, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka Preparatory Office)
On February 11 (Thursday), a new attempt was made, called the "Gallery Talk Exchange Game", in which curators from the museum and the Hall of Science gave explanations from their respective perspectives while in front of the same home appliances. With no audience and online distribution only, the location is Osaka Science Museum. The talk material is the home appliance collection of Hall of Science. Keiko Ueki and the author (Kazu) of the Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka Preparatory Office, both of whom belong to the Osaka City Museum. The museum, which is scheduled to open in the early spring of 2022, is currently under construction next to the Hall of Science.
The program consists of three parts. In the first part, we introduced various rice cooking methods and their development while taking up rice cookers and jars from the 1940s to the 2000s, and then introduced the transition from the radio vacuum tube type to the transistor type seen in the 1950s.

In the second part, Ueki first introduced the secret story of the birth of flower-pattern home appliances, the relationship between rice cookers and handles, and then introduced the variety of designs for miniaturization and ease of use, using portable small radios and calculators as examples.

In the third part, we talked about the birth and early days of Japanese industrial design centered on home appliances, the relationship between miniaturization and science and technology and design, and how to sell home appliances from advertisements and product manuals around 1960 to 1970.
Through this talk and dialogue with the "dual eye" of design and science and technology, it was highlighted that home appliances have evolved and developed while inseparably mixing design and science and technology, and the "talk buds" that will make you want to talk more in the future. Looking forward to the opening of the museum!

Report writing: Kazujijin (Department of Arts and Sciences, Osaka Science Museum)
[Archiving public]
The video of the entire talk is now available on the official YouTube channel.
(As of February 15, 2021)
↓ Click here for the video

The project website is here:
Creative Island Nakanoshima Official Website
https://nakanoshimalab.jp/