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Silver Prize [Koji Mizutani's prize]
Title：	※ (mark of rice)
Concept:	When I was working at a food-store chain, we threw out a bucket full of rice every day. All we need in Japan is 20 million tons of food annually, but we throw away nearly 60 million tons of food. Food-related garbage accounts for the greatest percentage of wastes in Japan. Dumping food is a very regrettable act. It has, however, become a way of life these days numbing people of any feelings of regret. This piece attempts to raise awareness among people of their casually wasting large amounts of food every day. In order to send out a clear and direct message, I've cut out a scene from our daily life―a bucket full of trash―and created an object out of it using wasted rice. With this piece, I aim to convey the risk of unconsciously making light of food in our daily lives and hope it will be instrumental in building a better relationship with “food.”
Judge's Comments:	Although as an installation, this work has impact and exhibits a strong sense of message, the aspects of communication with society are a little weak. Merely viewing the work without any description of it makes it difficult to realize the point that discarded rice is used here. I think that using this object as an element in, for example, a media mix or in pursuing some design strategy would result in a more expansive work.
Profile
	Name of Applicant:	Aya Minakawa
	Year of Birth:	1983
	Gender:	Female
	Nationality:	Japan
	Occupation:	Designer at Corporation
	Academic history:	Graduated from Musashino Art University, Faculty of Art and Design, Department of scenography, display and fashion design course
	Awards:	-2006 Musashino Art University Faculty of Art and Design Graduation Work Exhibition Merit Award
	Exhibitions:	-2006 Musashino Art University Faculty of Art and Design Graduation Work Exhibition
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