Lowsalt is a movement that reframes responses to digital addiction through the Japanese sensibility of Gen’en, or reducing salt. In Japanese food culture, salty ingredients such as miso, pickles, and soy sauce are deeply embedded in daily life. Gen’en is not the rejection of salt, but a practice of learning to live with it while reducing its excess. Just as a high-salt diet places strain on the body, an internet that is too stimulating places strain on the nervous system through the eyes and ears. Referring to Japanese cultural practices such as sentō, or public bathhouses, this project reconsiders privacy not merely as something to be protected, but as an asset to be managed and used in order to regulate one’s own life. It proposes digital lowsalt as a way of lowering excess stimulation in order to live better.

Sheetboxing is a written language for boxing that repurposes musical notation and music theory. It is a protocol based on notation. By translating punches, defense, steps, distance, and the tactical relationships between opponents into symbols arranged as sheetboxing, it makes it possible to read boxing apart from bodily movement itself. Bodily knowledge that remains unverbalized is neither preserved directly as such nor converted into information; as a result, it is often left behind without being accumulated. As a preparatory act before boxing can be verbalized or informationalized, Sheetboxing first makes it writable. In doing so, it creates a symbolic infrastructure for the tactical dimension of boxing and for bodily learning.

Motifique is a body-based protocol practice in which participants observe motifs found in nature, such as flowers, trees, and stones, and express them through their own bodies. Participants observe a tree, for example, and translate it into a short pose or movement. Through this activity, the project tests in practice the hypothesis that the simpler a protocol is, the more it may acquire a universality that crosses cultural differences and generates new forms of relation.

As reflected in familiar concerns such as “Japanese people struggle with English” or “Japanese is too difficult to learn as a foreign language,” there is a structural distance between SOV Japanese and SVO English that the living brain cannot easily cross. The SVO Japanese project is an attempt to explore a point of compromise between these two linguistic structures through the design and practice of a constructed language. Learning a foreign language means dealing with three difficulties at once: pronunciation, vocabulary, and word order. SVO Japanese proposes a constructed-language protocol that keeps Japanese vocabulary intact while reorganizing only the word order into an English-style SVO structure. By doing so, it isolates the difficulty of word order from the other two and allows speakers to experience it directly.

Matcha is an attempt to describe the structure of thought in legal reasoning not as natural language, but as a formal language. In this project, the mental organization that takes place before writing a legal answer is treated like code in programming. Based on facts and issues extracted from a legal problem, the writer describes legal reasoning through Matcha’s syntax. This description functions both as a protocol of notation for organizing human thought and as a protocol of data format that can be analyzed, generated, and evaluated by software.

This project transforms the two-dimensional outline of Madagascar on a map into a three-dimensional object large enough for a person to embrace. By remaking the image on the map as a physical form that can actually be hugged, or placed over the body so that its weight can be felt, the map becomes something that can be experienced bodily. This practice begins from an intentionally false hypothesis: that a map is not merely a flat representation, but perhaps the projection of a hidden three-dimensional object. The act of making in this practice is an attempt to perform an “indefinite integral” of the map, dismantling the linear connection between map and reality.