MISAWA Haruka

三澤 遥

Designer
Misawa was born in Gunma Prefecture in 1982. Director of the Misawa Design Laboratory, Nippon Design Center. Associate Professor at Musashino Art University. After graduating from the Interior Design Course of Musashino Art University and working at the design office nendo, she joined Hara Design Institute at Nippon Design Center in 2009. She founded Misawa Design Institute in 2014. Misawa Design Institute use an experimental approach, attempting to observe the principles behind things and visualize the unknown possibilities to be found there.
Her major works include “waterscape,” which reconstructed the underwater environment into a new landscape; “Doshi,” which explored the possibilities of paper as never before; “WHO ARE WE,” a mobile exhibition kit for the National Museum of Nature and Science; art direction for “Entô,” a base where visitors can stay at the Oki UNESCO Geopark; and “UENO PLANET,” which visualized the hidden charm of the Ueno Zoo. Major awards include the Mainichi Design Award (2019) and the Yusaku Kamekura Award (2023). She is the author of “waterscape” (published by X-Knowledge).