Profile
Naomi Shibata
2017–2018 Coordinator for Obayashi Foundation Research Program Exhibition: AIDA Makoto “GROUND NO PLAN”, Tokyo
2017 Editor for nl/minato Archive Book, Tokyo
2017 Coordinator for Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition: The World Through the Window, Tokyo
2017 Coordinator for SAPPORO INTERNATIONAL ART FESTIVAL, Sapporo
2017 PR for The Singapore Dialogue Urban Solutions Strategies for the 21st Century Sustainable City, Tokyo
2016–2017 Coordinator for Premium Japan Art Project’s young architects interview series
2015–2017 Assistant for The Japanese House. Architecture & Life after 1945 in Rome, London, Tokyo
2016–2017 Editor for MONO JAPAN in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2016 Coordinator for Shibaura House on Erik Kessels Lecture & Workshop in Tokyo
2016 Coordinator for Shibaura House on Media Fantasy Worlds vol.2: De Correspondent in Tokyo
2016 PR for TRUNK on AISIN Imagine New Days in Milan
2015 Competition for Japanese Pavilion at The Venice Architecture Biennale 2016
2015– Editor for Ginza Maison Hermès Le Forum in Tokyo
2015 Residency Program at Cité internationale des arts in Paris (July–September)
2015 PR for TRUNK on AISIN Imagine New Days in Milan
2014–2017 Coordinator for Mikhail Karikis’s research and production in Japan
2014–2016 Assistant coordinator for Architecture since 3.11 in Kanazawa, Japan
2014 Producer for Mikhail Karikis: Work Quartet screening and performance in Tokyo
2012–2013 Assistant curator for Taro Igarashi on Aichi Triennale
2012 Assistant curator for junya ishigami + associates on Audi Urban Future Award 2012
2012 PR for TRUNK on CANON NEOREAL IN THE FOREST in Milan
2012 Editor for Traveling exhibition “How Did Architects Respond Immediately after 3/11 ?”
2011 Executive Producer and Curator for “architecture as a piece of nature” in Milan
2011 PR for TRUNK on CANON NEOREAL WONDER in Milan
2011, 2012 Coordinator for Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, the Netherlands
2010–2015 PR for Sendai School of Design
2010 Coordinator for Thonik on LLOVE
2010 Coordinator for DasArts, Amsterdam
2009– Coordinator for Thonik exhibition at Spiral in Japan
2009 Art director/Editor for a+u December 2009 Feature 2: Perceptual Space (pp. 141-254)
2009– Adviser for Dutch design book (architecture, graphic design)
2009 Writer for Design no Genba (designer’s workshop) December 2009
2008– Editor for website Alchemy
2008 Contributor for Kenchiku note No. 4/No. 5, Interior note No.1
2008 Designer for Bernotat & Co on the format of their portfolio
2008 Designer for website of Gestaltung & Innovation, Folkwang Hochschule
2007– Freelance
2006–2007 Grapgic designer, Thonik, Amsterdam, the Netherlands ‘Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists’
1999–2006 Editor/Designer, A&U Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
- Issue in charge (plan, edit, design, and finish): H&deM 2002–2006 (a+u August Special Issue, 2006), CCTV by OMA (a+u July Special Issue, 2005), MVRDV FILES Projects 002–209 (a+u November Special Issue, 2002)
- Issue in charge (plan, edit): Feature: Chile – Deep South (a+u July Issue, 2006), Feature: Italian Metamorph (a+u September Issue, 2005), Feature: Austria East (a+u October Issue, 2004), Feature: Young Architects in the Netherlands (a+u April Issue, 2004), Feature: OMA / Experience (a+u November Issue, 2003), Feature: Tadao Ando / Inside Outside (a+u March Issue, 2002)
1995–1999 Bachelor of Architecture, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan (Thesis: House for Della and Jim of The Gift of Magi by O. Henry)
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Teaching Experience
2014 Guest critic at Aichi Shukutoku University, Nagoya, Japan
2013 Guest critic at Graduate Exhibition of Dept.of Spatial Design and Information Systems Miyagi University, Sendai, Miyagi
2011 Lecturer at SSD extension opening lecture, Shin-minato Mura, Yokohama, Japan
2010 Visiting Lecturer at Dept. of architecture, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
2006 Visiting Lecturer at Dept. of architecture, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Visiting Lecturer at Dept. of architecture, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan