LUCUA Osaka Launches a School to Make Daily Life Fun: The 'School Hazushiba' (The Loosening Place) Begins

LUCUA Osaka, the fashion building operated by JR West SC Development Co., Ltd. (President: Yasushi Takenaka, Umeda, Osaka), will launch a new project under its 'Tokimeki Division' on Saturday, July 11, 2026: a six-session workshop series called 'School Hazushiba' (The Loosening Place).

School Hazushiba is not a place for self-improvement or business training; it is a new learning space designed to help people gradually loosen the 'defaults'—their fixed assumptions—within themselves and cultivate thought patterns that allow them to enjoy daily life. Through a six-part program including field work that opens up the senses, scientific experiments, questioning 'self-identity,' and sound workshops, participants do not simply receive correct answers; they experience the sensation of 'loosening' by testing, feeling, and conversing.

[Background of Establishment] Modern society often demands efficiency and growth. As we search for immediately useful answers, it becomes harder to break free from our internal norms. LUCUA Osaka launched this project to provide opportunities to enjoy the strange sensations of daily life from a new angle, rather than trying to change everything at once.

[Key Points of the Project] 1. A New Form of Learning: Not about specific skills, but about loosening cognitive frames. 2. Diverse Approaches: Experience 'loosening' through sensations, science, sound, and more. 3. Practical Perspective: Aiming to bring back not fixed techniques, but thought patterns that allow one to view daily life from a different angle.

[Six-Session Curriculum] Session 1: For You Who Want to Loosen (Introduction from anthropology perspectives) Session 2: Experience Loosening (Re-discovering inconsistencies through field work) Session 3: Science of Loosening (Exploring cognitive bias and the shifting of perspectives) Session 4: Wearing Loosening (Re-examining assumptions about 'self-identity') Session 5: Playing Loosening (Creating and expressing in a space using voice and body) Session 6: With You Who Have Loosened (Finding seeds of change to bring into daily life)

[Instructors] Kimihiro Konishi (Associate Professor at Tokyo Gakugei University, Director of the Institute of Hen-Rui-Gaku): Researcher on emergence and 'fluctuation'. Daigo Fujita (Manufacturing Development Department at Leave a Nest Co., Ltd., Representative of Space Gnome Research Institute): Promoter of space and science education.

[Overview] Dates: July 11, 2026 (Sat) to September 26, 2026 (Sat) Location: LUCUA 1100 9F Umeda Tsutaya Books Event Space / LUCUA 9F 'LUCUA Hall' Fee: First-time limited price of 29,800 JPY (tax included) Participation: Advance booking required

[About the Tokimeki Division] LUCUA Osaka's planning and development team. They have implemented numerous projects such as the 'Delusion Shop' and 'Waste Enjoyment Club' that turn daily curiosity into 'Tokimeki' (excitement).