Camp for Designing the Future 2025

6/26 Selection results for Camp for Designing the Future 2025 have been sent.

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6/12 Applications for Camp for Designing the Future 2025 have closed. Results are scheduled to be notified in late June. We will also post an announcement on this page when results are sent.    

5/29 Application guidelines and assignments have been released. [Deadline: Thursday, June 12, 15:00 (JST)] Please apply via the application form located below the summary description of each workshop. You may only apply for one workshop. Results are scheduled to be notified in late June.   

A Google account is required to apply. Please prepare one in advance. (It appears that Google accounts provided by high schools, etc., may not be able to access the application form. In that case, please try a different account.)

4/28 Workshop summaries have been released. Assignments will be released and applications will open starting May 29 (scheduled) (selection is based on assignments, not first-come, first-served). Please note that the application period is short, with only two weeks from assignment release to the submission deadline. Application guidelines will be released along with the assignments.  

4/7 Added the flow from application to participation for Camp for Designing the Future.  

4/3 Camp for Designing the Future 2025 will be held at the Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC), Kyoto Prefecture, and Tottori Prefecture. Please see the "Event Overview" for information on dates and venues.  

For workshops held at SFC, we plan to provide pre-event accommodation (for a fee) for participants from distant regions.

[Eligibility] Participants of campus workshops (WS01–04)

From 8/3 (Sun) – ¥2,000 (planned) per night (WS04)

From 8/4 (Mon) – ¥2,000 (planned) per night (WS01–03)

@ SFC β Village (includes shared showers and toilets. No amenities provided.)  

This program is a workshop for 1) high school students already active in entrepreneurship (for-profit or non-profit) and 2) high school students who wish to start a business in the future to solve specific social or customer issues. Faculty members from SFC specializing in management—Kotosaka (Strategy), Yasuda (Finance), Shimizu (Organization), and Nakamura (Deep Tech)—will serve as sounding boards for discussions on business imagination and future design. Participants will exchange a wide range of management insights through peer mentoring, discussions with faculty, and case studies in the food sector. To make the discussions even more fruitful, we will also provide time for dialogue with current SFC student entrepreneurs. We look forward to the participation of students who identify challenges, attempt solutions, and strive to create a new world!

Instructors: Masahiro Kotosaka (Faculty of Policy Management), Takaaki Yasuda (Faculty of Policy Management), Takumi Shimizu (Faculty of Policy Management), Shinnosuke Nakamura (Project Instructor, Graduate School of Media and Governance)

Capacity: Approx. 10–15 people (maximum 20 expected)

Participation Fee: 3,000 yen (includes lunch, insurance, etc. *Transportation to the venue is not included.)

At Keio SFC, learning a language has been likened to a "window" since the campus was founded. By learning multiple languages, the number of windows increases, and the visible scenery expands significantly. In this year's Multilingual Education WS, we would like to embark on a literary adventure with you, opening new windows by crossing borders between multiple languages (French, Arabic, Spanish, Malay/Indonesian, and English) while composing haiku. For the digital native generation, expressing yourselves through short words, photos, and videos on social media is likely very familiar. Did you know that the popularity of "Haiku," considered one of the shortest forms of poetry in the world, is expanding internationally? As leaders of the 21st-century multilingual and multicultural society, you are increasingly required to have imagination and empathy for people of different cultures, as well as rich linguistic abilities and flexible thinking to express yourselves appropriately. Through this WS, we aim to provide an opportunity for you to further refine these skills while deepening our collective thinking on themes essential to modern life, such as language and identity, intercultural communication, and the possibility/impossibility of translation. We welcome applications from high school students who wish to actively consider the ideal form of communication in a multilingual/multicultural society while enjoying the new scenery visible through multiple "windows" with SFC students and faculty.  

Instructors: Hazumi Nishikawa (Faculty of Policy Management), Kaoru Yamamoto (Faculty of Policy Management), Mamoru Fujita (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies), Yo Nonaka (Faculty of Policy Management), Rieko Ishibuchi (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)

Capacity: Approx. 20 people (participation from distant regions is welcome)

Participation Fee: 3,000 yen (includes lunch, insurance, etc. *Transportation to the venue is not included.)

This workshop is primarily for high school students interested in diplomacy, security, and strategy. While learning basic knowledge of strategy and security, participants will use the commercial strategy board game "Twilight Struggle" to simulate national-level decision-making, using the competition between the United States (USA) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the Cold War as a subject. As members of either the US or Soviet strategic teams, participants will build and execute strategies to expand their country's influence while managing rising political and military tensions and avoiding nuclear war. During the game, event cards reflecting actual Cold War events are used to manipulate the situation through various means such as influence placement, coups, destabilization operations, and the space race. The game introduces a concept based on "DEFCON" (Defense Condition), an indicator of military combat readiness, with five levels of alert. If DEFCON 1—the most serious level—is reached, a nuclear war occurs, and the side that triggered it loses. This symbolically reproduces the logic of nuclear deterrence and the tension structure of international politics during the Cold War. Through this simulation, we hope participants will experience the difficulty of strategic thinking and situational judgment, and increase their expectations for the practical and interdisciplinary learning in regional, strategic, and technical fields offered at SFC.

Instructors: Keizo Kitagawa (Faculty of Policy Management), Motonobu Fujita (Faculty of Policy Management)

Capacity: 16 people

Participation Fee: 3,000 yen (includes lunch, insurance, etc. *Transportation to the venue is not included.)

Our surroundings are full of various things with undiscovered potential. From tree branches fallen in the woods to discarded bulky waste, if we look closely again, wash them, or combine them, some can become tools or furniture. Undiscovered potential can be found not only in objects but also in spaces. Just placing a single chair in a vacant lot or on a roadside can suddenly transform an unremarkable space into a place where people can vividly exist. When we become accustomed to a life of buying cheap and convenient ready-made products, we forget the rich possibilities of objects and spaces. In this workshop, we will challenge ourselves to walk around the campus, collect various items, and use them to create outdoor furniture such as chairs and tables. This is a two-day workshop involving an overnight stay on campus. Let's create a new landscape at SFC by walking outside to discover, picking up and reimagining objects, working with our hands and sweating to craft, and placing the finished works.

Instructor: Shohei Matsukawa (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)

Capacity: Approx. 20 people

  Venue/Accommodation: Facilities within β Village

Participation Fee: Approx. 7,000 yen (includes accommodation, meals, insurance, etc. *Transportation to the venue is not included.)

Every region has various public facilities and spaces within its town. In particular, government-established offices, libraries, community centers, and parks are shared assets that people can use widely, and at the same time, they are the most familiar entry points to local society. However, observing current public facilities and spaces, it seems that their users and usage patterns are limited, and there is a sense of distance from the younger generation; despite the potential for more free and diverse use, it is often not fully utilized. Therefore, in this workshop, we will gather in the "heart of Kyoto," where diverse people live and pass through, to consider new possibilities for public facilities and spaces through group fieldwork and discussions. This is a workshop that values being physically present in the space, moving around, and observing and discussing from various angles, rather than being in a typical classroom. While understanding the unique character of the attractive city of Kyoto, let's create a time and space that is open to many people with free and bold ideas.

Instructors: Hajime Miyagaki (Faculty of Policy Management), Yoshinori Isagai (Faculty of Policy Management), Hajime Ishikawa (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)

Capacity: Approx. 20 people

Venue/Accommodation: Kyoto City

Participation Fee: Approx. 17,000 yen (includes accommodation, meals, travel insurance, etc. *Transportation to the venue is not included.)  

The Augmented Town Workshop aims to build a new town platform using the latest technologies such as XR and robotics, using a specific area in Tottori Prefecture as a model case. This year's theme is "The Future of People, Living, and Regional Healthcare," and the keyword is "augmentation." As members of a research and development project conducted by the university and the region, participants will research the issues faced by daily life and medical sites in the target area. While preserving the good old parts of the region, you will prototype mechanisms to create new value and presence for the community and its residents by effectively introducing various technologies suitable for "now," such as VR/AR/MR, robotics, high-precision sensing of environmental and human information, and information sharing technology on the Web. The augmentation of these values and presence will weave new connections between people and restore "humanity" to people's lives and medical sites where DX is progressing. (This workshop is currently in the final stages of planning, and details will be added later. The title may also change. It is scheduled to be finalized by the start of applications in late May.)  

Instructors: Kazunori Takashio (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies), Satoko Takita (Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies *Planned)

Capacity: 20 people

Venue/Accommodation: Yonago City and lodging facilities, etc.

Participation Fee: 20,000 yen (planned) (includes accommodation, meals, travel insurance *Transportation to the site is not included.)

Note: Only for this workshop, technical college students may also apply.

(The dates listed below are tentative and subject to change.)

SFC will hold the "Camp for Designing the Future" again this year. While the "Camp" is not "camping" in the sense of sleeping outdoors, it is an environment where you learn the importance of utilizing your own abilities and experience on-site and linking creativity to action. The approaches to various problems advocated by SFC require "the power to execute." While the "Camp" is prepared in advance, specific movements are designed transitionally according to the situation on the ground. We know from experience that flexible ideas and inspirations are born in unexpected ways and often in informal places. In that sense, you are likely to find many hints for understanding communication between people at the "Camp." In fact, both "campus" and "camp" derive from the Latin word "campus," meaning a "flat place or square." 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, allowing you to experientially think about the "power to execute" that leads to the future. Together with your peers gathered at the "Camp," let's move both your mind and body busily and take another step toward the future.