2023.08.08
This year, the "Camp for Designing the Future" was held at Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC), as well as in Nagasaki and Tottori Prefectures.
Targeting mainly first- and second-year high school students, the event took place at the SFC venue on Thursday, August 3 (with the overnight workshop running for two days and one night from Wednesday, August 2), in Nagasaki Prefecture for two days and one night from Wednesday, August 2, and in Tottori Prefecture for three days and two nights from Wednesday, August 2.
Now in its 13th year, the "Camp for Designing the Future" was planned as a place for participants, 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 campers while tackling open-ended problems sparks flexible ideas and inspiration.
At the SFC venue, a total of 89 high school students from across the country were divided into four workshops, where they proactively engaged in creative activities and discussions alongside faculty members and SFC students. The high school students, who seemed a bit awkward during the morning guidance, soon warmed up to each other and honed their skills by engaging in heated discussions that defied the intense heat, dedicating their full intellectual and physical abilities to their creative work, and sharing their thoughts and ideas with their peers.
At the two off-campus venues, workshops utilizing the unique "field" of each location were held with the cooperation of local community members. In Nagasaki Prefecture, known for its many hills, participants visited a site where a vacant house on a slope was being repurposed and took on the challenge of creating practical knowledge to solve local issues, incorporating feasible and uniquely high-school-student perspectives. In Nichinan, Tottori Prefecture, a new city platform utilizing the latest technologies in XR and robotics was built, using a specific area within the prefecture as a model case.
At all venues, it was a day where participants met new peers, fostered connections, experienced the unique SFC way of seeing and thinking, and took a step forward into the future.
Scenes from Each Workshop
(Photos by Takeshi Kishi and others)
Tottori Workshop Highlight Video
(Reference Link) SFC Camp for Designing the Future
Posted by: General Affairs Section, Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Office