December 16, 2022
At the 11th Workshop Proposal Competition for Children's Towns and Homes held this past July, the workshop "Machi-iro Crayon Expedition" by SFC students from the Hajime Ishikawa Laboratory won the Grand Prize.
The 11th Workshop Proposal Competition for Children's Towns and Homes is organized by the Architectural Institute of Japan, and the Grand Prize-winning workshop will be realized as part of the "Parents and Children's Course on Cities and Architecture," which has been running since 1991.
Additionally, the award-winning workshop was also selected for the 2022 Good Design New Hope Award in the "Design of Mechanism" category.
[Grand Prize]
"Machi-iro Crayon Expedition"
Yuki Haga (4th year, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Shunsuke Suzuki (2nd year, Master's Program, Graduate School of Media and Governance)
Ayuki Sato (1st year, Master's Program, Graduate School of Media and Governance)
Risako Taketani (4th year, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Ayami Okuni (4th year, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Ririko Yamada (4th year, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Yusei Ito (3rd year, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Kiko Nakazawa (3rd year, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Yudai Kanei (3rd year, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Miyu Yoshizawa (2nd year, Faculty of Policy Management)
Misaki Takahashi (2nd year, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Ayano Kaneko (2nd year, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law)
Comments from the Winners
We proposed a workshop where children collect colors from the town and discover the richness of the landscape's colors by making crayons from them. Last year, we were disappointed not to even make it to the second round of judging in the same competition, but we didn't give up, continued our trial and error, and were able to win the Grand Prize. We are very happy to receive such recognition for a workshop that we built through much deliberation with our lab mates, starting from the search for how to make the crayons.
This workshop was planned as one of the "Machi-niwa Workshops" organized by Uji City and Urban Design Center Uji (UDCU). We also had the opportunity to hold it in Uji this past June and November. I am full of gratitude to our professor for his guidance, to everyone who gave us eye-opening advice, and to all who provided the opportunity and venue for the workshop. We will continue to strive to make it even better. (Yuki Haga)
Issued by: General Affairs Section, Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Office