2016.09.05
The residential Camp for Designing the Future was held at Miraisozojuku (Institute for Designing the Future) Residential Building 1 .
The Camp for Designing the Future is a workshop designed as a place for participants, who are meeting for the first time, to share their diverse knowledge and wisdom and to experientially consider the "ability to execute" that leads to the future. Communicating with fellow camp participants while tackling open-ended problems gives rise to flexible ideas and flashes of insight.
This year, for its sixth iteration, we held our first overnight, two-day residential workshop, titled "Collaborative Robot Design Workshop: The 'Ma' and 'Kaeshi' Between Humans and Robots."
On the day of the event, 15 high school students from across the country, together with faculty members and SFC students, proactively engaged in creating a "manzai" (Japanese stand-up comedy) routine with the robot Pepper. They worked through the night on everything from scriptwriting to programming, and each team presented their unique "human-robot manzai" performance. It was two days of meeting new friends, fostering exchange, being exposed to the unique perspectives and ways of thinking characteristic of SFC, and taking a step forward toward the future.
If the conventional one-day camp is positioned as a camp for "prototyping future designs," then the residential Camp for Designing the Future can be seen as a camp that looks beyond that to "realistically create the future."
To build on the connections made at this Camp for Designing the Future and develop them into internships for SFC research projects, the "Camp for Designing the Future Follow-up Program" will be launched. Some participants will join the research groups (seminars) of the faculty members who ran the residential Camp for Designing the Future as interns. From the end of the camp until March 2017, they will work on their own projects while receiving guidance and advice from faculty members and SFC students.
(Photo: Aki Takematsu)
Posted by: Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Office, General Affairs (Public Relations) Section