Towards social design based on "white infrastructure thinking"

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Mitsubishi Jisho Design Inc. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Junichi Tanisawa) is pleased to announce that it will be proposing a new approach called "White Infrastructure Thinking" as a way of thinking for creating a truly sustainable society that can accept various changes and diversity and continue to evolve.

"White infrastructure thinking" is a way of thinking that gives space redundancy, flexibility, and variability, and then creates a system that will sustain these qualities.
Based on this approach, by working beyond the boundaries of hardware and software, and large and small in scale, we can expand our activities, which are becoming increasingly diverse today, beyond the framework of a traditional design office. We will use a wide variety of approaches to solve various social issues that are rapidly becoming more complex, and "design" a "truly sustainable society."

This approach makes it possible to incorporate flexibility and variability into cities and buildings at various phases, from the initial project stage through operation and into the post-project stage when further improvements are considered -- a cycle of efforts to improve flexibility throughout society.