Shin Bogdan Hagiwara is a Belgian architect in Brussels. After graduating from the Institut Supérieur d’Architecture Victor Horta in Brussels, he worked for Paul Robbrecht & Hilde Daem and for Pierre Blondel for 6 years. In 1999, he co-founded the award-winning architecture studio Bureau Vers plus de bien- être / V+ with Thierry Decuypere and Jorn Aram Bihain. In 2009, he established the new design office SHSH ARCHITECTURE + SCENOGRAPHY with Shizuka Hariu, expanding the design in cross-cultural contexts, both in Europe and Japan.

His major completed projects include the public architecture Sauvenière cinema and Bonheur Provisoire for the Expo 58, as well as several residential projects, such as Limite collective housing with art studios, Poissons house with art gallery, Rittweger house and Vanderstappen house.

His work has been recognised with several awards, such as the nomination for the Mies van der Rohe – European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture in 2015 and 2009, the Bruxelles-Horta Award in 2014 and 2008, the Steel Construction Award in 2014, the Liège’s City Public Award in 2008 and the Belgian Building Award in 2009. Also, in collaboration with Shizuka Hariu, nominated for the World Stage Design 2022 in Canada for the design works for Yoko Ono's Bells for Peace. He won the public architecture competition for Morlanwelz Library and several exhibition design awards, including the D&AD Desing Award, the German Design Award, and the competitions of the Gallos Roman Museum exhibitions.

She has been appointed as jury for the several Belgian universities and the prestigious design competitions such as Non-Architecture Award and ADC 101th Award from NY.

Since 2010, Shin Hagiwara has been actively collaborating with SHAA/Shoichi Haryu Architect & Associates, he won the Sakata Crematorium Proposal in Japan and he has been supporting the reconstruction after disaster by tsunami in North-East Japan. He has been assisting intensively the reconstruction works, including the prize winning collective housing in Iwanuma city.

Dr. Shizuka Hariu : Creative Director, Scenographer, Spatial Designer

Shizuka is an art director, an interdisciplinary designer, artist between scenography and architecture based in Brussels since 2005.Her scenography describes the relationship between concrete space and imaginary space, based on her acute understanding of architectural environments.

Earlier in her career, she assisted the Belgian scenographer Jan Versweyveld for the opera I Due Foscari and for Bitches Brew (Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker / Rosas). She also worked as an architectural assistant for David Adjaye Architects in London and SHAA / Shoichi Haryu Architect & Associates in Japan. Shizuka obtained a PhD for her scenography research and design developments for contemporary dance in Belgium, Japan and the UK.

She has completed projects as a creative director for the opera Super Angels (New National Theatre Tokyo, Keiichiro Shibuya), the opera Written on Skin (Suntory Hall, George Benjamin, Maestro Kazushi Ono) and Giortes Rokka Festival in Crete for 6000 audiences. As a designer, she created Tsunagu (Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Monaco), Bells for Peace (Yoko Ono Manchester International Festival), New World (Ballet Am Rhein, Robert Binet), Dystopian Dream (Nitin Sawhney, Wang & Ramirez), Sacred Monsters (Akram Khan & Sylvie Guillem), Solid Traces (Charleroi Dances), and many others throughout Europe and Japan. These productions have toured to venues such as Sadler's Wells, Royal Opera La Monnaie, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Centre Pompidou, Théâtre de la Ville, Sydney Opera House, and many others.

She has won the Bronze medal from the World Stage Design (WSD) 2022 Calgary, Bronze medal from the WSD 2017 Taipei, Tokyo Kukan (Space) Design Award Bronze Medal 2022, Kisaku Ito Theatre Design Encouragement Award, D&AD Award London, German Design Award, Tokyo Design Award, Pola Art Foundation Award and many others. Shizuka is selected as ‘One of the 12 best new theatre designers’ in The Guardian in UK in 2019. She is exhibited at PQ2019, 2015 and the her works are presented at the national exhibition at the V&A in the UK in 2015 and 2019.

She has been appointed as jury for the prestigious design competitions such as Non-Architecture Award and ADC 101th Award from NY. She gave a lecture at University of London (Royal Holloway), Ghent University, La Cambre, Antwerpen University, V&A and Japanese Embassy at UK and David Chipperfield Architects's Symposium. Recently she is curating the Beyond UK section for the digital scenography for PQ 2023.

She is co-director of SHSH Architecture + Scenography, established with architect Shin Bogdan Hagiwara. They have designed critically acclaimed exhibitions such as Sensing Spaces (Royal Academy of Arts, London), Face to Face with the Romans (Gallo Roman Museum) and many others.

She is a member of the SBTD / Society of British Theatre Designers and the JATDT / Japan Association of Theatre Designers and Technicians.

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