About
Forging Ties among Humans, Areas, and Businesses
Through HAB-YU, one of Fujitsu Design’s activities for the purpose of creating new value through design,
we aim to forge ties (“yu”) among different humans, areas, and businesses in a wide variety of ways.
Sharing challenges, ideas, and technologies found in various fields, we aim to cycle through the process of unpacking problems, making the necessary connections, and creating value.
Through HAB-YU, we strive to create changes in the way people work, generate new businesses,
and revitalize regional businesses. In addition, we aim to extend the contribution made by the discipline of design to lifestyle-related fields.
We work on our design activities through a process of creative collaboration.
Centering on community-related issues found around the country, including in Roppongi, as our main focus, we aim to forge ties between urban and regional areas and search for new business themes.
We strive to clarify visions related to various themes, such as “social” and “life,” and implement prototyping and materialization of ICT tools and services.
Project
At HAB-YU, we cooperate with Mori Building Co., Ltd., as well as regional communities and companies,
to work on projects based on three themes: forging connections between urban and rural areas, creative collaboration with customers,
and creative collaboration within companies. Through these projects, we aim to create a picture of what work and life might look like in the future.
The “HAB-YU platform” is the general term for the opportunities that we provide for designers
and others to engage in creative collaboration in order to generate new value, as well as to identify and solve a wide variety of problems.
The platform, which is the system that serves as the activity base, consists of the following five elements:
Tool
Placing humans at the center of everything, we aim to create visions for the future as well as highly sustainable new value based on a future-oriented, collaborative approach, with designers serving as key players.
We strive to develop tools that will facilitate the effective generation of a wide variety of ideas within a limited timeframe. We aim to provide appropriate tools suited to different collaborative styles and also to the program aims, such as divergence and convergence.
We are also engaged in research and development for collaboration tools and applications using ICTs such as smart devices. Establishing an even more appropriate cloud environment, we will accumulate ideas generated through creative collaboration and user feedback, and will consider providing them as one of our services.
Place
Underpinned by the concept of “space with a margin,” places where open innovation occurs differ depending on the themes. Ingenuity pops up in unexpected places as a catalyst to foster creative collaboration.
To search for likeminded partners and bring ideas to fruition, we forge ties among humans, businesses, and areas, and cooperate with a wide variety of partners. In addition, we aim to develop a new community that connects Roppongi with other urban areas.
HAB-YU platform
Ark Hills South Tower, 3rd Floor, 1-4-5 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Train
– Tokyo Metro Namboku Line, Roppongi-itchome Station (directly connected to the building)
– Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line, Kamiyacho Station, approx. 10 min. walk from the station
– Tokyo Metro Ginza Line, Tameike-sanno Station, exit 13, approx. 5 min. walk from the exit
Bus
– Toei Bus, Line 01 (Shibuya – Shimbashi), Roppongi Itchome Station-mae, approx. 2 min. walk from the bus stop
Route from Roppongi-itchome Station
1) Leave the central ticket gate, turn left, and take the up escalator.
2) Go up two floors.
3) Upon reaching the ground floor, proceed to the entrance of the South Tower and take an elevator from the elevator bank on the right (behind Starbucks) to the 3rd floor.
Partner
森ビル株式会社
富士通株式会社
あしたのコミュニティーラボ
GKデザイングループ
MIRA TEKU
UNITED ARROWS LTD.