HYBRID INNOVATION: A VISION BUILDING WORKSHOP will be offered.
ART AND DESIGN MEET SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 13:00-16:30, 9 Jan 2020 @407A Workshop Room, South 5
We are a multidisciplinary team made of a designer, a translation/facilitation expert and a theorist working across art and design, science and technology and the humanities. We have been working together for years developing new research, educational and communication methods that bring together different perspectives from our respective fields and across several cultures. We have run a range of activities including academic symposia, hackathons, workshops and public events for different expert and non-expert audiences, in Tokyo and London. With this workshop taster we want to share with you some of the insights we have been developing to address this urgent question: how can we imagine alternate futures?
Most important for you, our guests, how can our methods and insights be mobilized to help you amplify your capacity for innovation, to think about the futures you want and to ask new questions about the values that matter to you and to your company.
HYBRID INNOVATION: A VISION BUILDING WORKSHOP
ハイブリッドイノベーション企業向けビジョン構築ワークショップを実施します。
ART AND DESIGN MEET SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
アート／デザインと科学技術が出会うとき
2020年1月9日 13:30-16:00
東工大大岡山キャンパス 南5号館407A
Prof. Kayoko Nohara acted as a panelist at the Value Creation Design Forum sponsored by the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), The University of Tokyo.
Saturday, December 21, 2019 14: 00-19: 30 @ Shibuya QWS Scramble Hall
Programme – Part 1: Practice and systematization of design-driven engineering
Is a design that links engineering research and future society possible? How?
The speakers introduced recent practices and research cases by DLX Design Lab and discussed design methodology.
Speakers: Yuichi Washida (Hitotsubashi University), Kayoko Nohara (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Toshiki Shinno (The University of Tokyo), Miles Pennington (The University of Tokyo), Yukiko Matsunaga (The University of Tokyo), Mitsuru Muramatsu (The University of Tokyo), Midori Yamazaki (The University of Tokyo), Kensei Miyoshi (The University of Tokyo)
Programme – Part 2: Education for design-driven engineering
What kind of education is needed to develop professionals who can conduct design-driven engineering?
Experts in design engineering education from companies and universities were invited to discuss.
Speakers: Noriko Kamiyama (Dyson), Teruyuki Kaduchi (Osaka University of Arts), Keita Watanabe (Meiji University), Shunji Yamanaka (The University of Tokyo)
The Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), the University of Tokyo, is promoting “Value Creation Design (Design-Led X)” based on the concept of “value creation through a fusion of engineering and design perspectives”. We have rediscovered the value of engineering technology from the viewpoint of design and set this approach to give new goals to engineering research: we call it “design-driven engineering”. This is an attempt to significantly change the academic and artistic approaches that currently define this field.
Tokyo Institute of Technology Industry-Academia Collaborative Program
“Urban and Infrastructure in the 100-years of Life”
5th Workshop “Town”
Date: 19 December 2019
Time: 13：30～17：45
Venue: Tokyo Tech Ookayama Campus, Main Building, 3rd Meeting Room
Betti joined the debate and gave a speech as a commentator.
Her words which includes “to build better futures, you first need to imagine them” remains in us.
This is a course that gives you a practical idea of design, with the essential part of “conveying/ not conveying” as the theme.
The objective of the course is to learn how to “edit” information, how to “design” multiple elements, and how to understand “media” as a communication tool to communicate with others through poster production.
Prof. Kayoko Nohara and Associate Prof. Wataru Hijikata from Tokyo Tech will stay at Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London (CSM), as “Scientists in Residence” to take part in the Hacking Heart project.
The event is a ‘Hackathon’, a week-long project re-imagining heart research artistically by CSM arts students. They will collaborate with Dr. Thomas Iskratsch, School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, and another Scientist in Residence, Heather Barnett and Dr. Ulrike Oberlack, from CSM. The workshop will finish with a public symposium on Nov 8th, where the outcome will be demonstrated.
A team from Central Saint Martins – University of the Arts London (CSM) visited the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and two universities officially signed MOU. The two institutions will further promote collaboration in academic research, education, and university-industry partnership.
On May 15th, after a meeting between President Kazuya Masu of Tokyo Tech and head of CSM, Prof. Jeremy Till, the MOU signing ceremony
was attended by Prof. Norihiro Nakai (Dean of School of Decision Science and Technology), Prof. Yuji Wada (Dean of School of Materials and Chemical Technology), Prof. Mitsuji Sampei (Associate Dean of School of Engineering), Prof. Shigeki Nakagawa (Director of Office of Education and International Cooperation), Prof. Kayoko Nohara (School of Environment and Society, WRHI research member) from Tokyo Tech, and Prof. Till (Head of School), Rachel Dickson (Dean of Academic Programmes), and Gemma Proudley (International Partnerships Development Manager) from CSM. The participants from the two universities exchanged opinions on the further promotion of collaborative research and partnership.
During the ceremony, the participants also discussed about the history of the two institutions, previous activities of the two universities’ collaborative project in the past two years and a half, and existing examples of science/technology and art/design collaborations in Japan and the U.K. Presents were also exchanged. Prof. Till from the background of architectural studies explained the choice of wrapping paper of London’s city skyline to Prof. Nakai with specialty in urban studies. The ceremony was carried out in a witty and pleasant atmosphere.
Following the signing ceremony, a luncheon meeting was also held. Joined by Prof. Nohara, Prof. Nakagawa, Prof. Shinya Hanaoka (School of Environment and Society) and Prof. Masahiko Hara (School of Materials and Chemical Technology) from Tokyo Tech, and Prof. Till, Ms. Dickson, Ms. Proudley, Dr. (Reader) Betti Marenko and Dr. Ulrike Oberlack (also Project Professors of WRHI) from CSM, the event was held in South Bldg. 5.
Sharing the same venue as the colloquium carried out on the previous day, May 14th, the faculty members reflected on the LEGO works made during the workshop of the colloquium to consider the methodology of Transdisciplinarity and the videos of the previous activities and events. The members all look forward to the future collaboration and strengthened partnership after the official start of the signing of MOU.
