Recruiting students! Joint Design Workshop with National Cheng KungUniversity, Taiwan

This class following last year was offered a special class “Global Design Project V”, a joint design workshop with NCKU (Tainan, Taiwan) which we had made agreements with on student exchanged academic cooperation. This class focuses on the regional characteristics of Fukuoka City andTainan City. It will explore the issues of the declining birthrate and aging population, not only faced by Japan and Taiwan but also the social problems in the world. Students will understand the similarities and difference in cultures, values and lifestyle habits in the two countries. They will learn field survey methods, service design methods and digital fabrication methods. Also, learning the process of carrying out projects and improving the ability of communication by the global joint members such as the professors and the students from KU and NCKU.
Note: The class will be conducted as one part of EDGE-NEXT.
Reference: GDP-V 2018

Contents of workshop:
Under the theme of “Design for convivial communities”, we focused on the lives of the community (mostly elderly people) and proposing design services using IoT technology.
The classes were in English.
Keywords: Convivial communities, Older people, Quality of Life, IoT service design, Double diamond method, Persona, Customer journey map, Scenario, Business model canvas, etc.

Instructors:
Kyushu University (KU); Prof Ryoichi TAMURA, Prof Taketoshi USHIAMA and Prof Tokushu INAMURA
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU); Prof CHIEN Sheng-Fen, Prof YANG Chia-Han, Prof CHEN Hsi-Jen

Credits: 4

Program:
September 24-27, 2019   Term1
Venue: Ohashi Campus in Kyushu University
-Orientation
-Lectures of the existing studies and design methods.
-Identifying problems through the field surveys
-Practices using IoT prototyping tools etc.

End of November, 2019   Term2
Venue: National Cheng Kung University
-Determine the solutions
-Creating scenarios
-Movies production exercises etc.

February 17-21, 2020   Term3
Venue: Ohashi Campus in Kyushu University
-Final presentation and feedback
-Summarized final outcomes and procedure of the WSetc.

Condition:
・In principle, you must be able to participate from Term 1 to 3.
・Those who are planning to graduate in March 2020 must meet the required graduation or completion credits outside this class.

Applicants for the class
Students who are interested to take the class or have any questions, please contact Prof Tamura by July5.
If there are overwhelming responses, we will conduct a selection.

Tamura(a)design.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Associate Professor, Ryoichi Tamura
Department of Design Strategy, Faculty of Design Kyushu University