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This project will be organized in close coordination with xSDG laboratory at the Keio SFC research institute.

This project will be organized in close coordination with xSDG laboratory at the Keio SFC research institute.

‘Embodiment Design’ Program

In our highly information-oriented and established world we are forced to live in an environment where time, space and human activities are all over scale in our daily lives. In this current society where people depend on extremely complicated systems which are beyond our control, we face many problems which stem from this situation.
Regarding the level of anonymity the current internet society allows, and lack of awareness of murders without experience of death in people’s lives and so on, it has been long since we started to discuss the necessity of reestablishing actual relationships between ‘ourself’ and the environment around us.
In order to understand the tendency of putting responsibility to others in this contemporary society, and respond to the problem directly, it is necessary to understand the consciousness of the people who the problems stem from. It is necessary to comprehend your body and soul well, to know your capacity with which you can do or cannot do, to establish your own way to solve problems, and to create human relationships matching your lifestyle. To aim to establish a society where people understand themselves well and understand each other, it is necessary to reconfirm how people relate to their environment by redefining their ‘body’ in any field. The approach to this action is defined as Embodiment Design.

‘Embodiment Design’ Program

In our highly information-oriented and established world we are forced to live in an environment where time, space and human activities are all over scale in our daily lives. In this current society where people depend on extremely complicated systems which are beyond our control, we face many problems which stem from this situation.
Regarding the level of anonymity the current internet society allows, and lack of awareness of murders without experience of death in people’s lives and so on, it has been long since we started to discuss the necessity of reestablishing actual relationships between ‘ourself’ and the environment around us.
In order to understand the tendency of putting responsibility to others in this contemporary society, and respond to the problem directly, it is necessary to understand the consciousness of the people who the problems stem from. It is necessary to comprehend your body and soul well, to know your capacity with which you can do or cannot do, to establish your own way to solve problems, and to create human relationships matching your lifestyle. To aim to establish a society where people understand themselves well and understand each other, it is necessary to reconfirm how people relate to their environment by redefining their ‘body’ in any field. The approach to this action is defined as Embodiment Design.

This class is designed for students to participate in actual planning of SBC (Student Build Campus) which is located in East area of Miraisozo-juku project, north of SFC.
Students will make furniture for House 2 or presentation hall which construction will start in this semester and oversee the holistic idea about SBC.
A guest instructor will be invited to teach practical fabrication.

This course is designed for students at the upper elementary level of Japanese. The goal of this course is to enable students to form the strong foundation of Japanese basic grammar and vocabularies before they acquire more complicated Japanese for academic purposes in higher level of courses such as ”Japanese intensive”.

How modern Japan became status quo? They hardly protected its independence around middle 19th century, and only 50 years later, they got a position and reputation as one of the great power countries in the world. After hard defeated at WW2, they came back the top stage of the world economics only 30 years efforts. This “success” story very attracts people who has been interested in the way of development, sometimes it ties with the curiosity of Japanese culture.
It would be hard to answer the question “What’s Japan?”, not only Japanese but also others. We should have opportunities to ruminate the past, the present, and the future of “Japan”.
This lecture intend to enhance each other recognition and answers with a crow's nest view from various area all over the globe.