Founded after the completion of Yanagi’s 13-year-long project on the island of Inujima in 2008, YANAGI+ART BASE aims to contribute to communities through various projects such as directing and designing spaces for the arts in collaboration with other artists, architects and artisans, both in Japan and abroad. Based out of ART BASE MOMOSHIMA, an art center located in a repurposed school building, we hope to spread Yanagi’s message for the betterment of society initiated through the power of art by discovering, preserving and repurposing industrial heritages and abandoned buildings.