Camp for Designing the Future 2018

SFC will be holding the “Camp for Designing the Future” again this year. A “camp” is an environment where you can learn the importance of utilizing your own abilities and experiences in the field and connecting your creative ideas to action. The approach to various problems that SFC advocates for requires the “ability to execute.” The “camp” is prepared in advance, but the specific activities are improvised and designed according to the situation on the ground. We know from experience that flexible ideas and flashes of insight are born in unexpected ways and often in informal settings. In that sense, the “camp” seems to be a place where you can find many hints for understanding communication between people. Both “campus” and “camp” are derived from the Latin word “campus,” which means “a flat place or open field.” The essence of intellectual activity at a university is to share a special time through free and open discussion. The “Camp for Designing the Future” is a place where diverse knowledge and wisdom collide, and where you can experientially think about the “ability to execute” that will lead to the future. Let's work our minds and bodies busily with the friends we gather with at the “camp” and take another step toward the future.

・Camp for Designing the Future 2018 Event Report

・August 6: Winners of the Excellence Award for WS05-06 have been announced.

・August 2: Winners of the Excellence Award for WS01-04 have been announced.

・June 20: We have sent out the results notification emails today. If you have not received the notification email, please contact us.

・June 7: Applications for the Camp for Designing the Future 2018 closed at noon today. Those who have entered will receive a registration confirmation email titled “SFC Camp for Designing the Future Participation Registration Accepted” at their registered email address, so please check. If you have not received the confirmation email, please contact us.

・May 23: Applications for the 2018 academic year have started.

Please apply from the application form for each workshop (link below the outline of each workshop). Please note that you are responsible for creating and compressing files. We cannot respond to technical inquiries or consultations.

・May 2: The 2018 workshop outlines have been released.

　Registration begins: May 23 (Wed) 15:00～

・April 2: The 2018 schedule has been released.

In this introductory fab workshop, you will create a three-dimensional object. Through this creation process, you will be asked to pursue a beauty akin to sculpture. On the other hand, physical considerations are also necessary for this production. For example, when building a tower or a bridge, consideration for gravity is necessary. In the case of airplanes or other vehicles, consideration for air resistance will determine the shape. Please create a beautiful three-dimensional object based on such considerations. Of course, this workshop does not require detailed mathematical formulas. Instead of calculations, you will explore strength and balance by making things by hand.

At the same time, this is a one-day production workshop, meaning you must create something in just one day. Therefore, participants have only a short time from conceiving an idea to moving their hands to create and complete it. You must also consider the ease of making, such as the assembly order and joining methods.

We believe that something that satisfies all these aspects is truly good design. We want you to think about these things and express them as a work of art.

In this workshop, we will distribute materials prepared by us on the day. Using these, each participant will create a work that combines beauty, strength, and ease of making within the time limit. It is a workshop where you create while moving your hands and express your thoughts and ideas through what you have made.

Hajime Narukawa (Graduate School of Media and Governance), Takuya Onishi (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)

Approx. 20 people

When you hear “management,” you might think of managing for-profit companies. However, the principles of management can contribute to all human activities and society. Wherever people act as a group or organization—such as in social reform, government reform, or the management of non-profit organizations—the insights of management studies are always being applied.

Traditionally, management studies was a discipline that specialized in the narrow domain of finance, such as commerce and accounting. However, against the backdrop of an increasingly complex world and the rise of influential multinational corporations, it has grown into a vast theoretical system that applies a wide range of academic disciplines, including sociology, economics, cognitive psychology, and even neuroscience, demography, and entrepreneurship studies. In other words, modern management studies is an extremely interdisciplinary and area-specific field where research is conducted from diverse perspectives, transcending academic boundaries.

SFC is an exceptionally suitable campus for studying management. Social and management issues often involve deeply entangled dilemmas, such as conflicts of interest among various stakeholders, making them very difficult to solve. To resolve such problems, one must overcome these dilemmas by utilizing all available knowledge and resources to derive the most desirable solution. Furthermore, important management decisions are fundamentally made through discussions among multiple stakeholders. This is because creative discussions are necessary for the difficult decision-making required to overcome various dilemmas.

In this workshop, high school students will simulate the perspective of a manager of an actual company. Through discussions with other participants—that is, other managers—you will engage in decision-making to derive creative solutions for management challenges and deepen your understanding of the essence of management. We look forward to meeting high school students who are interested in entrepreneurship, management, and leadership.

Masahiro Kotosaka (Faculty of Policy Management), Yuichiro Shimizu (Faculty of Policy Management)

Approx. 20 people

Since its establishment in 1990, SFC has advocated for multilingualism as a primary philosophy in language education, emphasizing the importance of mutual understanding of linguistic and cultural backgrounds and coexisting in a mutually beneficial and creative manner. Under this philosophy, a curriculum has been developed that allows for the intensive acquisition of high-level practical language skills in the world's major regional languages (Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Malay-Indonesian, Spanish, Japanese, German, and French), placing them on an equal footing with English. SFC's efforts to date can be seen from multiple sources, such as Fumiya Hirataka, Junichi Yamamoto, and Keiko Furuishi, eds., *Redesigning Foreign Language Education: From the Field of Keio SFC* (Keio University Press, 2005).

The goal of language education should be to open up to the diversity of the world, as well as to the diversity of Japanese society. This year, we would like to once again think together with participants and faculty about what the philosophy of multilingual education at SFC in the new era should be. What should be the position of English in a multilingual society, and what about the position of other regional languages? How will languages generally positioned as “minority languages” survive in the future? To begin with, how diverse are the linguistic backgrounds of the students entering universities in modern Japanese society? Multilingualism aims for an equal relationship between languages, but are we not treading on the tacit assumptions of the majority? There are countless points to consider.

Rather than a model answer from an honor student, what is required is to propose a new, substantive philosophy of multilingual education, one that is engraved with each person's life trajectory with multiple languages and their thoughts on a multilingual society, based on an understanding of SFC's efforts to date. This is not something that can be created by faculty alone. Let's discuss it to our heart's content and create the future of SFC together.

Mamoru Fujita (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies), Yo Nonaka (Faculty of Policy Management), Joya Takagi (Faculty of Policy Management), Petrus Allessandro Santos (Faculty of Policy Management), Rafael Arocena-Aingeru (Faculty of Policy Management), Tiina Matikainen (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)

Approx. 20 people

Life, which was born on Earth about 3.8 billion years ago, was nurtured in a blessed environment and eventually gave birth to humankind. Over the course of about 300,000 years, this humanity has continued its insatiable quest and unceasing efforts, realizing the development of science and society.

Already in the world, there are various disciplines and research related to “health science” that have supported the prosperity of humankind, from the micro level of molecules and cells, to the macro level of the human body, mind, and brain, and their collective bodies such as organizations, communities, and societies, and even to the practical level of management, strategy, and policy-making aimed at social implementation. SFC hopes that students will not be bound by existing academic fields, but will take a bird's-eye view of things with a super-future orientation, and grow into advanced human resources who can discover and solve various problems.

Many of the issues seen from a cosmic perspective require detailed past analysis, accurate current assessment, and bold future prediction. By repeatedly testing strategic hypotheses based on these, across generations, we can approach solutions. In this workshop, we will focus on your areas of interest and, while making good use of ongoing research at SFC, you will make original proposals that lead to the super future. At this time, you will be required to maximize your own thinking process, which you are good at, with your own strength. On the day, while maximizing your individuality, you will repeat discussions in groups and present your solutions to the problems.

To all high school students! Participation in the SFC Camp for Designing the Future may be the first step toward contributing to the human society of the super future.

Naohisa Yahagi (Graduate School of Media and Governance), Atsushi Aoyama (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies), Yuki Kuroda (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies), Miki Akiyama (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies), Yuka Oki (Graduate School of Media and Governance), Takaaki Kato (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies), Haruo Suzuki (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies), Yuko Tokairin (Graduate School of Media and Governance), Yasuhiro Naito (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies), Shinya Fujii (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies), Hisashi Mizutori (Faculty of Policy Management), Sachiko Mori (Faculty of Policy Management), Mitsuhiro Watanabe (Graduate School of Media and Governance)

Approx. 20 people

What should be done to solve the problems facing regions in various fields and create the future? In this workshop, we will learn about the current situation of the region, examine the problems, and discuss future measures.

Due to modernization and the aging of the population, population decline has become apparent in regional cities, especially in mountainous areas and fishing villages. As a result, industries are declining, and it is becoming difficult to maintain the infrastructure that supports regional life, such as medical care, welfare, transportation, and schools. On the other hand, despite this situation, there are also regions where industrial promotion, migration, and settlement are being promoted through creative efforts.

In this workshop, while observing the current state of the region, we will set problem points through group work, derive feasible and unique solutions, and aim to acquire practical knowledge that leads to the creation of the future.

Yoshinori Iimori (Faculty of Policy Management), Tomohiro Ichinose (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies), Wakana Baba (Faculty of Policy Management)

Approx. 20 people

In this workshop, through a two-day, one-night program, you will learn a methodology for discovering and expressing the “comfort of touch” in daily life. By combining this method with haptics technology, you will work on designing an information environment that aims for dialogue with artificial intelligence.

It has been a long time since social robots, represented by Pepper and AIBO, have become integrated into our lives and are no longer a rare sight. In addition, with the development of artificial intelligence technology, dialogue with computers through smart speakers is becoming seamlessly widespread. Against this backdrop, the Japanese government has envisioned a future image of an information society (Society 5.0) where humans and artificial intelligence communicate smoothly and tackle the challenges of daily life.

On the other hand, even now that the information society has developed this far, several unresolved technical issues remain. The two faculty members running this workshop are working on two things: technology that allows artificial intelligence to physically act on the real world (materialization of artificial intelligence), and information technology for the senses that humans experience with their physical bodies. The academic field that is particularly challenging the latter issue is Haptics. The social dissemination of haptics technology in recent years has been remarkable, and its application has expanded not only to smartphones but also to game controllers and VR controllers, and it has become widespread as a technology that enriches our lives. In the future, it is inevitable that the scope of application of haptics research will expand and grow into a fundamental technology for leading a comfortable and safe life.

Through this workshop, participants will propose a design for an information environment where humans and robots can communicate smoothly, create a prototype, and present it. As this is an intensive two-day program, we hope for the participation of students who are genuinely motivated to tackle a new academic field.

Masashi Nakatani (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies), Kazunori Takashio (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)

Approx. 15 people

The participation fee is expected to be around 7,000 yen (including accommodation, meals, insurance, etc.).

Accommodation will be at the Shonan Fujisawa Campus Miraisozojuku SBC Residential Wings 1 & 2 (4 people per room, shared showers and toilets).

SFC faculty and students will stay overnight together.

We are unable to accommodate food allergies.  

If the conventional one-day camp is a camp for “prototyping future concepts,” then the residential Camp for Designing the Future could be positioned as a camp that looks beyond that to “realistically create the future.” The background for implementing a residential program also includes our hope to increase opportunities for participation from regions outside the Tokyo metropolitan area. The time of two days and one night may be too short to create the future. Even so, if people with diverse experiences from various places can settle down at the “camp,” discover and share current problems, clash their wisdom day and night, devise creative solutions, and connect them to action, something new is sure to be born. The encounters at this “Camp for Designing the Future” may develop into internships in ongoing research projects at SFC. This encounter could be the catalyst for starting new research and education projects that transcend the boundaries of high school and university. Let's create such a future together with us.

As part of the Camp for Designing the Future (Residential Program) WS06, an internship is planned at the Kazunori Takashio Laboratory and the Masashi Nakatani Laboratory in the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies from after the camp until March 2019 (for award winners who wish to participate). For details, please see the “Camp for Designing the Future Residential Workshop Follow-up Program.”  

If you have any questions about the Camp for Designing the Future, please feel free to contact us by phone or E-mail.