“In Japan exists an extremely magic word: ikigai. The meaning of ikigai, as often happens with Japanese terms, is not so easy to explain and neither directly translatable. It’s more a concept than a simple term. A concept that deals with different areas of existence. First of all it has to do with “what we Love”, indeed probably the most not-rational portions of our life. A land where we could follow some intuitive, sometime instinctive, invisible path, toward an undefined final destination. A deeply emotional portion of our existence, in which we could experience the overlapping of Passion and Mission. Ikigai has also to do with our skills, or with “what we are good at”. As the motto of the watchmaker Alain Silberstein was “le vrai bonheur, est d’avoir sa passion pour métier”, that means, for the luckiest people, to talk about the crossing between their Passion and their Profession.

We need new steps

A. Biamonti
2019-01-01

Abstract

“In Japan exists an extremely magic word: ikigai. The meaning of ikigai, as often happens with Japanese terms, is not so easy to explain and neither directly translatable. It’s more a concept than a simple term. A concept that deals with different areas of existence. First of all it has to do with “what we Love”, indeed probably the most not-rational portions of our life. A land where we could follow some intuitive, sometime instinctive, invisible path, toward an undefined final destination. A deeply emotional portion of our existence, in which we could experience the overlapping of Passion and Mission. Ikigai has also to do with our skills, or with “what we are good at”. As the motto of the watchmaker Alain Silberstein was “le vrai bonheur, est d’avoir sa passion pour métier”, that means, for the luckiest people, to talk about the crossing between their Passion and their Profession.
2019
ADVANCEMENTS IN DESIGN RESEARCH. 11 PhD theses on Design as we do in POLIMI
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ikigai, design, passion, profession
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