There are over 20 large hotels in the area surrounding Tokyo Disney Resort. Urayasu City has approximately 12,000 guest rooms. It is the number one theme park town in Japan, and also one of the largest concentrations of hotels in the country. One of these large hotels has undergone a revolutionary renovation with a new perspective and ideas, following a change in management company. A convenient and comfortable hotel designed with the customer in mind has been born.

Fumito Matsuda, CEO of Heralbony, who launched a company that deals with art by people with disabilities, and Akane Yamaguchi, a designer at NOMURA Co.,Ltd., who has been exploring spatial concept design that generate various forms of communication. What new value are they trying to create through the collaboration between the two companies? We spoke to the two of them.

Thirteen years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake. Reconstruction has finally begun in some areas. What kind of reconstruction will they aim for in these disaster-stricken areas, which are still uninhabitable? The challenge continues to be to build new community spaces where people of all ages can gather and connect, while reviving the connections that once existed between people.

In the Business Production Department where I work, we draw up ideas to solve social issues and engage in business development activities to realize them. In particular, in the Public-Private Partnership Business Development Department, we are working on the development of new public facilities in response to the recent increase in dual-income households, changes in the environment surrounding children, and the aging of public facilities, which has led to a growing movement to reorganize facilities.

The R&D project "material record" that NOMURA Co.,Ltd. Future Creation Laboratory has been working on and the resulting sound device "noon by material record"* (hereinafter referred to as "noon"). Just recently, the Osaka Healthcare Expo 2020 Osaka Kansai...

How children spend their time after school is a major issue in society today. There are issues such as overcrowding in childcare facilities and being busy with extracurricular activities and cram schools, which means children are unable to find time to play freely. In December 2023, the government will announce "Guidelines for creating places for children," which include specific efforts to create places for children, such as "increasing" and "...