December 13, 2024
At the 2024 Good Design New Hope Award, "Adventure BOX," a play starter kit for hospitalized elementary school students, by Haruhiro Matsui (4th year, Faculty of Policy Management), Yuto Itaya (3rd year, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies), and Mayu Inomura (graduate, Faculty of Nursing and Medical Care) won the Grand Award. Additionally, the "Collective Impact Platform 'Kosodate no Mikata'" by Atsutoshi Tanaka (3rd year, Ph.D. program, Graduate School of Media and Governance) received the Gold Award. (Note: School years are as of the time of application.)
The Good Design New Hope Award, hosted by the Japan Institute of Design Promotion, is an award established in fiscal 2022 to support the activities of the new generation that will lead the future development of the design field.
Submissions were solicited from individuals or groups where all members were enrolled in various vocational schools, universities, or graduate schools in Japan as of April 1, 2024, or had graduated on or after June 1, 2023. A total of 606 entries were submitted from all over Japan, and after a rigorous screening process, 94 were selected for awards. From SFC, one team won the Grand Award, one won the Gold Award, and five were selected.
Following the final presentation screening by the eight Gold Award winners on December 7, 2024, Matsui, Itaya, and Inomura were chosen for the Grand Award.
[Good Design New Hope Award: Grand Award]
""Adventure BOX," a play starter kit for hospitalized elementary school students"
Mayu Inomura (Graduate, Department of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Medical Care)
Yuto Itaya (3rd year, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Haruhiro Matsui (4th year, Faculty of Policy Management)
Momoha Iijima (Department of Liberal Arts, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Saitama University)
[Good Design New Hope Award: Gold Award]
"Collective Impact Platform 'Kosodate no Mikata'"
Atsutoshi Tanaka (3rd year, Ph.D. program, Graduate School of Media and Governance)
Winner's Comment
In the spring of 2012, my first year of university, when I first entered the disaster-stricken area, what shocked me most was not the townscape washed away by the tsunami, nor the sight of the victims rising up against the disaster, but the infighting among supporters, each claiming to be the one to help.
Why can't we join hands when we all share the same goal of recovery? Since then, my work on collaborative design has continued.
Three years ago, after joining the Iba Lab as a doctoral student and receiving guidance from my professor and peers, I learned about Collective Impact, a concept gaining attention overseas. Until then, having spent 10 years in the disaster area after a four-year leave of absence from university, I was honestly skeptical at first. The past three years have not been an easy path, with painstaking explanations to stakeholders and more than six months spent on formulation, but now, with graduation approaching, I can finally see a way forward.
I believe this award is not something I achieved on my own, but rather an honor won together with the many collaborators in Kesennuma and at the university. And the goal is not winning the award, but achieving "ease of parenting," a continuous effort for the future. I intend to continue my research and practice in Kesennuma to develop a model that can be replicated nationwide, and I sincerely ask for your continued guidance and cooperation.
[Good Design New Hope Award: Selected]
Riku Kihira (1st year, Master's Program, Graduate School of Media and Governance)
Tatsuya Takabe (1st year, Master's Program, Graduate School of Media and Governance)
Yuki Mizuno (4th year, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Hajime Noda (Completed Master's Program, Graduate School of Media and Governance)
Masakazu Sakakibara (4th year, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Akihiro Fujiwara (4th year, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Yuki Luke Morimoto (4th year, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Tomonori Kaneko (3rd year, Doctoral Programs, Graduate School of Media and Governance)
I am deeply honored to have received an award in the "Design of Mechanism" category at the GOOD DESIGN NEW HOPE AWARD 2024. Under the guidance of Professor Takashi Iba, I have been developing my research from my undergraduate studies to my doctoral program, stemming from a personal sense of challenge I felt in high school. The award-winning project is also a new challenge to explore how to deliver the results of my doctoral dissertation—the culmination of 10 years of learning at SFC—to society and make them practically useful in the field. I am sincerely delighted that this initiative has been recognized. I would like to express my gratitude to Professor Iba, my fellow researchers, and everyone involved in the project for their support. Encouraged by this, I aim to further deepen my research and contribute to the field of nursing care.
Source: General Affairs, Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Office