Camp for Designing the Future 2019

SFC will be holding the "Camp for Designing the Future" again this year. The "camp" is not a "camping trip" in the traditional sense, but an environment where you can learn the importance of using your own abilities and experience 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 designed improvisationally according to the situation on site. 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. In the first place, 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 gathered at the "camp" and take another step toward the future.

・8/26 The winners of the Camp for Designing the Future 2019 Excellence Award have been announced.

・7/19 Today at 15:00, we sent out the results notification for the Camp for Designing the Future 2019. Those who entered will receive an email at the address you registered, so please check it. If you have not received the results notification, please contact us.

・7/5 Today at noon, we closed applications for the Camp for Designing the Future 2019. Those who entered will receive a registration confirmation email titled "SFC Camp for Designing the Future Participation Registration Accepted" at the address you registered, so please check it. If you have not received the confirmation email, please contact us.   

・6/20 Applications for the Camp for Designing the Future 2019 are now open. Please apply from the application form for each workshop (link below each workshop outline). The deadline is noon on July 5 (Fri). Results will be announced in late July.

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・5/30 The workshop outlines for the Camp for Designing the Future 2019 have been released. Applications are scheduled to begin on this website from 15:00 on June 20 (Thu). Applications are not accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Please note that if there are many applicants, a selection will be made based on the assignments.

・4/26 The schedule for the Camp for Designing the Future 2019 has been released. The event outline and workshop details will be announced on this website in late May.

・We will be holding the Camp for Designing the Future in fiscal year 2019 as well. The schedule and details will be announced on this website as soon as they are decided.   

This is a hands-on workshop where you will draw and create. We will have you pursue beauty while you create. On the other hand, to make things, you also need to think in a way that is consistent with physics. Physics sounds rigid, doesn't it? But for example, when building a beautiful tower, you need to consider gravity. The forces that are applied when an object moves also affect its shape. By turning the steering wheel slowly, a car draws a unique curved trajectory. The curves of highways are designed based on these curves. The purpose is to make driving easier and reduce the burden on the driver. There are examples of things made based on such considerations that are consistent with physics. That's why they can be called beautiful. But please rest assured. This workshop will not make you solve physics calculation problems. Instead of calculating with formulas, you will measure by making things intuitively with your hands.

With this approach, we would like all of you to do exercises in art, design, and craftsmanship. In this workshop, we will provide the materials for creation. Using only these materials, each participant will create a work within a time limit, following the tasks and rules we set. This is not a workshop where participants talk harmoniously in group work, but we are planning a workshop with a game-like atmosphere where all participants can fully demonstrate their creativity and compete with each other.

Susumu Narikawa (Graduate School of Media and Governance), Hirofumi Takenouchi (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)

About 20 people

Japan is a country with an extremely large number of natural disasters caused by earthquakes and heavy rains. Disasters can occur anywhere in Japan, as seen in the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the heavy rains of July 2018 (Western Japan). It is impossible to eliminate the earthquakes and heavy rains that cause disasters, but it is possible to reduce the damage by preparing for such phenomena. Among the many countermeasures, evacuation drills are something that is familiar to us but whose importance is often overlooked. In this workshop, we will focus on the evacuation drills at your school and think about how we can make them better.

For those who wish to participate in the workshop, we will provide information related to earthquakes and heavy rains (such as the seismic intensity scale table and the inundation level table) in advance. Based on this information, you will be asked to identify the issues with your high school's evacuation drills and think about improvement measures. On the day of the workshop, after receiving a lecture on earthquakes and heavy rains, you will be divided into groups of several people. In each group, you will share the issues that were assigned in advance and discuss how to improve the evacuation drills.

Satoko Oki (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies), Yoshiaki Miyamoto (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)

About 20 people

In recent years, various images are being created and distributed on a daily basis, to the extent that elementary school students cite "becoming a YouTuber" as their goal. It is no longer that unusual to freely take photos and videos with a smartphone in hand and post them on SNS very naturally. Recently, it seems that people are attracted to the feeling of "being there" in the moment, such as broadcasting live information from the scene, or content that becomes unavailable after a certain period of time. Perhaps a new way of creating and appreciating images has been born, different from movies where you sit down and savor a "story" or documentaries that take time to produce.

In the "Filmmaking Workshop," you will improvise with members you meet for the first time to create a documentary film of the "Camp for Designing the Future 2019." Divided into teams, you will film the various workshops being held on the day with mobile media such as smartphones, edit them, and finish them into a single documentary film, aiming to screen it for all participants in the evening. It will be a rather hectic task, but you should be able to experience learning that is closely tied to the field, such as thinking while filming and filming while thinking. For the past few years, current students (university students) have been creating documentary films of the "Camp for Designing the Future," but this year, we will be conducting filmmaking as a workshop.   

Fumitoshi Kato (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies), Hajime Ishikawa (Graduate School of Media and Governance)

About 15-20 people

Many of you may perceive health as a state of not being sick, not being injured, or not being frail. At SFC, we believe that true health, including these aspects, requires "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being." Within the SFC curriculum, there is a learning program that aims to learn these three concepts—"making the body healthy," "making the mind healthy," and "making society healthy"—in a well-balanced manner. We call this the Health Science Perspective. The plan is designed so that by earning credits to fulfill the perspective, rather than simply earning credits to meet the university's graduation requirements, you can naturally acquire the balanced health science that SFC seeks. In the workshop of the health science group of the Camp for Designing the Future 2019, you will experience content along that perspective and get a real sense of what SFC is like. Let's think together about what true health is and what form of health will be required in the future. In addition, the workshop will include projects conscious of the Tokyo Olympics in one year's time (including a lecture by Hisashi Mizutori, a full-time lecturer in the Faculty of Policy Management who serves as the coach of the men's gymnastics team for the Olympics, and a project to investigate the impact of the Olympics on biodiversity).

Yuki Kuroda (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies), Haruo Suzuki (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies), Yuko Tokairin (Faculty of Policy Management), Yasuhiro Naito (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies), Hisashi Mizutori (Faculty of Policy Management), Masaki Suwa (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies), Sachiko Mori (Faculty of Policy Management), Yuko Aogi (Graduate School of Media and Governance)

About 20 people

In community building, it is important for diverse people to participate and for new activities and values to emerge from their interactions. In recent years, attention has been focused on "placemaking" as a hub for this purpose. Therefore, in this workshop, we will explore concrete measures for how to create and operate effective places that contribute to community building. Traditionally, communities had mechanisms for problem-solving through mutual aid, such as ko, yui, and moyai. However, due to the effects of modernization and the aging population, these mechanisms are becoming dysfunctional in some places. To break through this situation, expectations are gathering for "places" that are hubs for reconnecting people and realizing new mutual aid in the community. For example, in the downtown revitalization project "Waiwai!! Container" in Saga City and the joint project "Shiba no Ie" by Minato Ward, Tokyo and Keio University, activities that lead to the creation of community vibrancy are being born one after another through interaction with diverse people, young and old, men and women. However, not all places created in the same way are successful, and it does not work overnight. In this workshop, while observing and analyzing the situation of a specific area, we will set a problem, and through thorough discussion, we will challenge the creation of practical knowledge for effective placemaking that is feasible and makes use of the unique perspective of high school students.   

Yoshinori Iizuka (Faculty of Policy Management), Miki Akiyama (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)

About 20 people

Social robots are penetrating workplaces and homes, working alongside us and becoming deeply involved in our lives. They achieve smooth interaction with people not only through conversation in natural language, but also by making full use of body language, reading the user's emotions, and sometimes expressing their own pseudo-emotions. If everyone comes to own their own robot, a future will come where we introduce our robots to others just as we introduce our family and friends, and communicate with them including the robots. At that time, if the other person's robot is exactly the same model and has the same personality... In the 2017 Camp for Designing the Future, we considered ways to give robots a "sense of being alive." This time, we will take it a step further and think about the "individuality" of robots. "Individuality" is something that is acquired and formed over time through interaction with people and among robots. Let's aim to create a robot that you can't help but want to take home with you. First, we will start by carefully observing real "people" and "living things," and discussing what "individuality" is and how it is formed. In addition to changes in appearance, there are many hints, such as a slight reaction to stimuli, selfishness, pulling strings, likes and dislikes of people, and attachment to places. Then, we will incorporate these findings into the robot's appearance evolution and action update logic. The target is an educational robot kit. While experiencing everything from electronics, programming, exterior design to prototyping at the FAB facility, let's raise a "robot with rich individuality." Please take this opportunity to experience the fun of learning and practice at SFC.

Kazunori Takashio (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)

About 10-15 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 Buildings 1 & 2 (4 people per room, shared showers and toilets).

SFC faculty and students will stay overnight together.

We cannot accommodate food allergies.

If the conventional one-day camp is a camp for "prototyping the future vision," then the residential Camp for Designing the Future would be positioned as a camp to "realistically create the future" that looks beyond that. Also, behind the implementation of the residential type is our hope to increase the opportunities for participation from regions outside the metropolitan area more than ever before. 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 in the "camp," find and share the problems that exist now, clash their wisdom day and night, be creative, and connect that to action, something new will surely be born. The encounter at this "Camp for Designing the Future" may develop into an internship in a research project currently underway at SFC. This encounter may be the start of a new research and education project that transcends 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) WS06, an internship at the Kazunori Takashio Laboratory, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, is planned from after the camp until March 2020 (for Excellence 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.