🖌️🎨 Street Art in Okayama

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If you’ve ever walked or biked through the city center of Okayama, you might have noticed an artwork quietly standing on the street near the Okayama castle. It is an art piece named “How to Work Better”

🧩 This piece was created by Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss for the Okayama Art Summit in 2016. Here’s the full message:

1️⃣ Do one thing at a time

2️⃣ Know the problem

3️⃣ Learn to listen

4️⃣ Learn to ask questions

5️⃣ Distinguish sense from nonsense

6️⃣ Accept change as inevitable

7️⃣ Admit mistakes

8️⃣ Say it simple

9️⃣ Smile

Sometimes, the best productivity advice is just waiting on the side of the road 🚦

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Another work is the A&A Liam Fuji “The Manabe Equation House”, one of the most fascinating projects from the A&A project, which is a collaboration initiative between artists and architects to promote art and culture in Okayama.

🌱 The concept of the building is inspired by the research of Syukuro Manabe, the meteorologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 for his work on climate science. In the 1960s, Manabe developed the first comprehensive 3D numerical climate model on how increasing greenhouse gases like CO₂ can raise atmospheric and surface temperatures.

🌱 The building in fact is a hotel with its design of maze-like circulation routes that encourage guests to slow down, pause and interact with the structure. More than simply moving from room to room, visitors can experience the building as an evolving artwork, one that invites reflection on climate change, our future and the relationship between humans and the environment.

*Source: Figaro-jp