For me
Record
Keep what caught your eye without needing a name or purpose.
MESSAGE / VISION / MISSION / PHILOSOPHY
Enjoy Life
From my record to the future.
No grand purpose or specialist knowledge is required to keep what catches your eye. Record it first for yourself and return to it later. As personal moments accumulate, they become a memory of place and a clue for understanding future change.
CORE MESSAGE
An everyday personal record can become a memory of place and help shape the future.
The entry point is not “for society,” but “for me.” Take a casual photo. Keep it. Return to it later. Attachment to place and clues about environmental change can be added afterward. We care about that order.
WHY RECORDS MATTER
We want to keep not only what exists now, but the time that existed there.
Maps and search are excellent at finding what exists today. They are less able to preserve a former landscape, a place someone once visited, or how it felt at the time. ikimon.life aims to become a layer between a map and an encyclopedia: a place-based foundation for records and memories.
Later
Revisit
Return to it as a memory and feel your connection to place.
For place and future
Become memory
Layered records help people understand how a place changes.
ORIGIN STORY
Turn over a stepping stone by the front door, and an earwig is underneath.
In Iwanai, Hokkaido, where our founder spent his early childhood, ordinary places such as a garden or ski slope became stages for encounters with living things.
These were not formal surveys. Simple discoveries made the world more interesting. Yet very few photos or place-based records from that time remain.
That absence inspired IKIMON: keep everyday discoveries as personal memories, then let them accumulate as the history of a place and reach someone in the future.
TECHNOLOGY & PEOPLE
AI and systems are not here to replace people.
AI is an entrance to curiosity, not a machine that always gives a final answer. It can suggest a broad group or candidate and lead people toward books, local knowledge, and expert review.
Communities still need recorders, guides, event hosts, reviewers, and supporters. Technology should make those roles easier to join and expand the ways people can contribute.
OPEN PRACTICE
ikimon.life is an open field for real-world practice.
We test how records, maps, AI assistance, events, privacy, and sustainable operations can work together without making participation difficult. The experience gained through ikimon.life also informs our FDE and DX implementation support for companies and communities.
Start with what caught your eye today.
No expertise or grand purpose is required. A memory of place can begin with one record kept for yourself.