Design has the perspective of treating things as a “system” functioning rationally, scalable, and replaceable. However, the social movement in Minamata, for example, is also a human resistance against systemic design. By nature, design creates alternative realities and results in the transformation of the creators of those realities. Is it possible to overcome the social distortions that design has been involved in through the power of design?Translated with DeepL.com (free version) Lecturer Tomohide MIZUUCHI（Associate professor, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Center for the Possible Futures） Design researcher, project director, and associate professor at Kyoto Institute of Technology’s Center for the Possible Future .He is engaged in research to rethink the nature …

The primordial field is a ground where different things are undifferentiated. It is a place to rethink the relationship between people, the plastic arts, and the environment, just before the separation of art, design, architecture, and civil engineering. It’s also a place to consider how the plastic arts can be brought back into the larger biogeochemical cycle. Through concrete practices with ‘fresh soil’ and the insights gained from these practices rather than theory, the project presents the potential relationship between material and form, technique and place, and the possibility of renewing theconcepts of artwork and creation toward post-human art and life at the end of advancing inequality, conflict and climate …

If the work of aesthetics (the study of sense) is to discover and articulate new sensibilities through collaboration with people, objects, and nature, all different from oneself, then collaborative ‘places’ are generated in this process. I would like to consider these places and their design from the perspective of aesthetics. Lecturer Fuminori AKIBA（Professor, Nagoya University） Born 1966, Okayama, Japan. Specialized in aesthetics. He got a Ph.D (Literature) from the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University (Aesthetics and Art History). Currently, he researches what happiness means in a future society and what aesthetics and art theories can do to achieve it. He published several works including E no Kofuku (Pictorial Happiness: …

Science and technology sometimes reinforce the cultural identity of a country or society, such as the former Japanese home appliances and the US space exploration, to name but a few examples. While they have a high impact because of its obvious results, science and technology also have negative consequences, such as promoting patriotism. Using Taiwan as a case study, this talk examines the image of science and technology as a cultural icon and the role played by design. Lecturer Osamu SAKURA Born 1960, Tokyo. PhD, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University. After working as a visiting researcher at the University of British Columbia, Mitsubishi Kasei Institute of Life Sciences, Yokohama …

Fundamental reform of child care and education is required. However, the oppositional relationship between the government and citizens, and between schools and parents, will only lead to the closure of the space in which children live. We will hear from a practitioner who started out as a photographer and turned a street corner park into a nursery school, about the re-design of education as a landscape open to society. Lecturer Sakiho SAKAI Photographer, Representative of ALBUS Inc., Director of Ifukumachi Nursery School and Goshogadani Nursery School, Representative Director of Welfare-Design Incorporated Association, Chairman of Furukogarasu Park Patronage Association. As a member of Kyushu University Children’s Project until 2009, she created …

Co-sponsored by the Center for Design Fundamentals Research, the following event will bewill be held. Although this event will be in-person only, all interested parties are welcome to attend. Screening and Talk: Hsu Chia-Wei The School of Design welcomes Taiwan-based artist Hsu Jia-wei for a screening of his video works and an artist talk. On the occasion of the exhibition “There is Another Capital Beneath the Waves” by Chia-Wei Hsu, Ting-Tong Chang and Hsien-Yu Cheng at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM[YCAM]) (June 3rd to September 3rd), Taipei-based artist Chia-Wei Hsu will screen a selection of his works, followed by a Q&A in English. Chia-Wei Hsu is mostly …