DDAA / DDAA LAB

DDAA Inc. / DDAA LAB Inc.

• 2-30-6 1F Kamimeguro Meguro-ku Tokyo JAPAN  MAP
• Tel +81 (0)3 6770 8246

Contacts

• New Projects : mail@dskmtg.com
  Public Relations: press@dskmtg.com
  Recruitment: recruitment@dskmtg.com

• DDAA is an architectural and design practice that works on multidisciplinary fields: architecture, city planning, landscape, interior, product, and concept making.
• DDAA LAB is a research and experimental design laboratory centering on architectural thinking, which aims to solve social challenges.

Daisuke Motogi

• Founder of DDAA and DDAA LAB / Member of a creative association CEKAI / Manager of shared space Happa / Part-time lecturer at Tokyo University of the Arts.
• Born in Saitama, Japan in 1981. After graduating from Musashino Art University in 2004, he joined to Schemata Architects. In 2010, he established his own architectural and design practice DDAA. In 2019, he established R&D organization DDAA LAB with Mistletoe Inc.; a Collective Impact Community that advocates a new style of business through startup support, to solve social challenges. In 2021, he participated in the Japan Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition - Venice Biennale.

Awards

• Bronze A’ Design Award Winner for Interior Space and Exhibition Design Category in 2022
• AR Public award 2022, Shortlisted
• KUKAN DESIGN AWARD 2022 Shop space, Gold Prize
• Dezeen Awards 2022 Seating project, Longlisted
• KUKAN DESIGN AWARD 2021 Office space, Gold Prize
• Design Anthology Awards 2021 Places category of Commercial Spaces, Winner
• Design Anthology Awards 2021 Places category of Adaptive Reuse, Finalist
• ABB LEAF AWARD 2020/2021 Best Interior Design Project, Shortlisted
• FRAME AWARDS 2021 Small Office of the Year, Shortlisted
• Dezeen Awards 2021 Small workspace interior, Shortlisted
• FRAME AWARDS 2020 Restaurant of the year, Winner
• FRAME AWARDS 2020 Co-working space of the year, Nominee
• FRAME AWARDS 2020 Emerging Designer of the year, Nominee
• KUKAN DESIGN AWARD 2019 Food space, Bronze Prize
• FRAME AWARDS 2019 Emerging Designer of the year, Nominee

Exhibition

• Hackability of the Stool at Vitra Campus (2023, Weil am Rhein, Germany)
• TRANSLATE atama edition #02 Yui Takada × Daisuke Motogi_Round Trip (2023, Hangzhou, China)
• Hackability of the Stool at Dropcity (2023, Milan, Italy)
• Hackability of the Stool at CIBONE (2022, Tokyo, Japan)
• Hackability of the Stool at Artek Tokyo Store (2022, Tokyo, Japan)
• Hackability of the Stool at Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art (2022, Kyoto, Japan)
• The 17th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia 2021 (Venice, Italy)
• Hackability of the Stool at B1OCK (2021, Hangzhou, China)
• ALCOVA 2021 / Milan Design Week (Milan, Italy)
• BELT FURNITURE (2021, Tokyo Japan)
• FRUIT BOWL (2020, Tokyo, Japan)
• Frame Lab 2019 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• DESIGN.VE 2018 (Venice, Italy)
• That Pipe in Time, So Gold (2017, Tokyo, Japan)

Book

• CONTINUOUS DESIGN: STRANGE DIY MANUAL (2020, Shobunsha)
• Hackability of the Stool (2022, House of Architecture)

Interviews / Columns

• Hackability of The Stool Interview / IDREIT
• 'Perpetually Unfinished for the Ever Inquisitive'
• FRAME MAGAZINE #127
• How to hack something

DDAA / DDAA LAB Staff

• Riku Murai
• Yuhei Yagi
• Taiga Mando
• Yurika Mantoku
• Misaki Taki
• Taiki Nakamura
• Ayaka Takahashi
• Chihiro Bando

Collaborator

• siin siin
• OYY

Back Office Staff

• Soyoka Tsuji
• Sakura Yamamoto