Yoshiharu Tsukamoto is one half of Atelier Bow-Wow, the Tokyo-based firm he founded with his partner Momoyo Kaijima in 1992.  Whether working on a micro scale, as with their residential projects that transform the spatial constraints of congested sites into opportunities for domestic invention, or on the urban scale by cataloging the programmatic juxtapositions in Tokyo’s fabric, their practice explores the relationship between space and human behavior.  In 2010, Atelier Bow-Wow was invited to create the inaugural BMW Guggenheim Lab, a temporary event space designed to engage the public in a dialogue about the future of the city.  The Lab, which will ultimately travel to three cities worldwide, began its journey in New York last summer and is slated to open in the Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood of Berlin in June 2012, after its initial site in Kreuzberg was met with considerable public resistance. What does it mean to design for the public and who, exactly, are these publics? #wood041812