http://hirokokurihara.com/conversations Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:11:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en WHAT an honor to be recognized by the New York TIMES!  Thank you Mr. Tim McKeough for the writing and thank you Mr. Brad Ford (Interior Designer extraordinaire in NYC) for recommending me!! Now, more than ever, I'm inspired to continue bringing people good design and good connections with each other. http://hirokokurihara.com/conversations/?p=21 After 4 years of operating my business I had the fortunate problem of needing to expand and get help sewing.  I started to form a collective of artists who could share space and start an employment training program with people that we could hire. Then with bamboo sword strapped to my ... http://hirokokurihara.com/conversations/?p=17 Urban development and urban change happens from the inside out and from the ground or grass roots up.  Mostly the response that residents have to development projects is one of fear and mistrust, understandable with all the bad architecture and thoughtless urban planning out there. In 2006, in the wake of ... http://hirokokurihara.com/conversations/?p=13