{"id":7343,"date":"2026-08-13T10:58:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T01:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aratama.tech\/?post_type=portfolios&#038;p=7343"},"modified":"2026-08-21T22:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:24:21","slug":"kogei-japonica","status":"publish","type":"portfolios","link":"https:\/\/aratama.tech\/en\/works\/kogei-japonica\/","title":{"rendered":"Kogei Japonica | Japanese Craft Co-Creation Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7343\" class=\"elementor elementor-7343\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-966e175 elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"966e175\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container 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For businesses and communities, it opens access to traditional techniques and cultural assets that can inspire products, spaces, regional initiatives, and new partnerships. The work spans business design, digital platform development, specialist media, audience development, and ongoing operations.<\/p>\n\n  <h2>Project Overview<\/h2>\n\n  <p>Japanese craft embodies techniques, materials, and regional cultures refined and passed down over generations. Yet makers still need stronger ways to communicate their work, reach new markets, collaborate with businesses, and make reliable information available to international audiences.<\/p>\n\n  <p>Kogei Japonica brings together craft artists, studios, businesses, cultural experiences, and editorial content within a shared information platform. It creates connected pathways for audiences and partners to discover, understand, commission, purchase, and co-create Japanese craft.<\/p>\n\n  <h2>Scope of Work<\/h2>\n\n  <h3>Business and Service Design<\/h3>\n\n  <p>The service architecture brings together two sides of the ecosystem. Makers can present their practice, sell work, develop new markets, and connect with potential collaborators. Businesses, local governments, and cultural organizations can identify makers, develop products, commission bespoke work, curate spaces, and initiate regional projects.<\/p>\n\n  <p>Dedicated entry points and user journeys were designed for each audience, connecting free registration and profile development with editorial exposure, sales support, product development, artwork rental, and collaborative opportunities.<\/p>\n\n  <h3>Platform Development and UI\/UX<\/h3>\n\n  <p>The information architecture enables users to explore interconnected profiles of craft artists, companies, cultural experiences, and editorial content. 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