The eighth issue of our series of articles in AXIS magazine is now on sale. The theme was "Pulling 'yourself' away from your own gravitational force." We along with the locals on their spring excursion to pick edible ferns (fiddleheads) in Otori area in Yamagata Prefecture and the MATAGI(traditional winter hunters in the Tohoku Region on Japan) on their winter hunting excursion in Ani area in Akita Prefecture. We hope you will enjoy reading it.
 
We also introduced a collaborative project between Bridgestone's in-house venture, Soft Robotics Ventures, and TAKT PROJECT.
This project won the Gold Award at the iF Award 2023 (Germany), one of the world's leading design awards, for its concept model "Dialogue." This article introduced the project in detail, from the start of the project to the critique of the iF award jury. We hope you will take a look at it.