Society and industry are seeking "engineers with design sensitivity". This talent should be able to create products that balance functionality and design, incorporating a variety of perspectives. At its root, the question is "how to give form to universal and versatile ways of thinking (concepts)". In this workshop, students start with one topic and experience the design process through building a concept through discussion, creating a simple molding design, and giving a presentation. Together with students from Musashino Art University, students are expected to discover normally overlooked aspects of "ideas taking form" such as the various possibilities, discoveries, and the importance of trial and error.
This workshop has the objective of bringing together the many perspectives within a team to produce a product or system which expresses a good balance between functionality and design. By creating a combined team with the complementary skills of Musashino Art University students under the guidance of Musashino teachers, it will broaden perspectives and teach the difficulty and importance of communication through debate and direct experience of manufacturing.
Concept, design, Musashino Art University, functionality, user
Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | ✔ Communication skills | ✔ Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Intensive workshop for 5 days at the end of July to beginning of August. The date will be decided in due course.
Make a mixed team with students of design and fine arts and obtain practical experience of the design process in the sequence "From a subject extract an idea, and develop a new concept up to an artistic expression". After a lecture on basic design theory and learning about communication between different disciplines, each team will take part in the workshop. Finally, teams will present their results and created an object at Roppongi Midtown design hub, which will be subject to evaluation from external visitors.
Course schedule | Required learning | |
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Class 1 | Understand basic design theories, inter-semiotic translation and semiotics | Background research |
Class 2 | Create "concept" out of the given theme through discussion in each team. | Transfer from theme to concept |
Class 3 | Workshop 2: Delve more deeply into concepts to clarify them. Interim presentation will be given in the second half. | Share a clear idea about the concept |
Class 4 | Produce a 3-D design from the concept. | Complete the design production |
Class 5 | Presentation, discussion and evaluation from external guests | Preparing the output |
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Handouts will be given out.
Contribution to the group task, final output (design object and presentation), creativity and logical connection in presentation.
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