"Beyond Industry 4.0: Digital Fabrication and Local Craft"

Beyond Industry 4.0: digital fabrication and craft, a Japan-Australia event, was held as a joint project between the Environmental Design Global Hub at Kyushu University and the Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales (UNSW).

Experts from Japan and Australia researching woodworking, wooden architecture, and digital fabrication were invited to the four-day event. The event has allowed the establishment of the relationship, exchange of opinions, presenting research results and discussion on advanced personal technologies.

Program
November 26th: Public lecture, Minami Oguni Town Hall
November 27th: Symposium, Minami Oguni Town Hall
November 28th: Symposium and lecture by Shoei Yo, Ohashi Campus
November 29th: Talk Event, MTRL Kyoto

On the first day of the event, a public lecture was held at Minami Oguni Town Hall in Kumamoto Prefecture. Assistant Lecturer Yosuke Komiyama from Kyoto University, Koki Akiyoshi from VUILD, and Gabriele Ulacco from AR-MA presented examples of wooden buildings created using digital technology. All the invited speakers also visited local timber industry sites and places such as Fablab Aso Minami Oguni.

On the second day, the symposium “Digital Processes and Craft Traditions” was held at Minami Oguni Town Hall, Kumamoto Prefecture. A study tour was also organized for the guests to view the large scale wooden buildings designed by Mr Shoei Yo in Oguni.

On the third day, a symposium on Education Futures took place at Ohashi Campus, Kyushu University. The speakers for the symposium were Matthias Hank Haeusler and Marjo Niemela from UNSW; So Sugita from Hiroshima Institute of Technology; Kazuhiro Jo and Masakazu Tani from Kyushu University. It was followed by a special lecture by Shoei Yo titled “Non-Architectural Design: Ambient Design Matrix”. Over 100 visitors attended the talk.

On the fourth day, A talk event, Digital + Material, was held at MTRL KYOTO in FabCafe Kyoto, with Marjo Niemela and Tracey Huang from UNSW; a carpenter Soichi Adachi; and Asami Kubota.

Speakers

Scott Geoffrey Hawken
UNSW, Faculty of Built Environment

Matthias Hank Haeusler
UNSW, Faculty of Built Environment, Associate Professor
Director of Computational Design

Marjo Niemela
UNSW, Faculty of Built Environment,
Director of Design Futures Lab

Tracy Huang
UNSW, Faculty of Built Environment

Gabriele Ulacco
Director at AR-MA

Yosuke Komiyama
Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University

Shinichiro Ito
Lecturer, Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Kyoto Sangyo University

Kazuya Saito
Project Lecturer, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo (as of 2018)

So Sugita
Associate Professor, Hiroshima Institute of Technology

Koki Akiyoshi
Representative Director of VUILD Co., Ltd.

Shoei Yo
Architect