Sculpture Symposium and Public Sculpture Installation Program first met in Hachioji City, 1976. Hachioji City employed Sculpture Symposium as artwork acquisition process for the administration, while introducing the symposium as cultural and educational event for the community. In Hachioji, Sculpture Symposium itself played an important roll in the community, increasing public interest during the symposium period providing the opportunity to join the artwork creation. Meanwhile, employing Sculpture Symposium as sculpture supply system damaged the site specificity of the artwork and public involvement for the symposium. In conclusion, however, Sculpture Symposium Scheme first launched in Hachioji which is followed by many municipalities gradually obtained ideal solutions as Public Sculpture Installation Program which follows the original ideas of Sculpture Symposium.

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This paper discusses the revision of Public Art installation in the United States during 1980s. Discussion starts with art installation programs that formed the typical image of Public Art, "Giant Abstract Sculpture sits in front of Modern Architecture", dated from early 1960s. Problems and controversies on these artworks in public places are analyzed and we found two possible frameworks that solve these problems, 1) Artwork and artist should consider not only physical conditions of the site, but social conditions around the site. 2) Public controversies and increasing interest on the artwork could strengthen the public role of the artwork itself. Then we analyzed the projects on these two frameworks and show two reasons why public art in the United States changed during 1980s, 1) Once installed as the medium of political propaganda of free world against the Socialist nations during the cold war, public demand for the public art changed after the cold war ended and a new public role was expected. 2) More artists changed their position on the role of art. These artist are more interested in making their works in the social context rather than making isolated and autonomous existence.

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In the northern country, design can bring out richer life when new ways to utilize snow, and beautiful winter scenery are found out. We designed objects which will show various scenery in winter covered with snow. This paper describes how to utilize snow, and the production experiment of snow landscape, we called snowscape.

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The purpose of this research aims in the interconnection between man and nature. It is a proposal to understand and benefit from the given land. An Installation in the form of a string sculpture was built to resemble and emphasize the twodistinct worlds of man and nature and bring them closer together. This report is also an appreciation towards Mr. Isamu Noguchi for resolving the problem of space for the Moerenuma park in Sapporo, Japan. The constructed string sculpture reflects his intentions of binding man made objects in harmony with surrounding landscape.

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