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K2 Studio 2017 -Civic Futures Workshop

August 8th and 9th, 2017

K2 Design Lab held a 2-day workshop K2 Studio 2017 on the theme of “citizens’ future” from Aug. 8 to 9, 2017.

Many experts who actively work on the forefront of design, both in and out of Japan, attended the workshop and participated in an open debate with members of Global Center for Social Innovation – Tokyo, a design organization of Hitachi Ltd.

The opening talk featured the content of previous field studies conducted in Europe on the “future of cities.”

After the opening talk, specialists brought up various topics and held an open discussion, highlighting a wide variety of different perspectives on the future of cities.

Finally, the participants were divided into five groups to ponder over the future of Tokyo.

[Program]
Panel-1: “Who are citizens?” (Initial thought provocation by Fumiko Ichikawa)
Panel-2: Collective identity: How do we shape it? (Initial thought provocation by Toru Koga)
Inspirational talk-1: “Lab City ‒ A city experimenting civic life” by Yasuto Nakanishi
Panel-3: Citizen-led city making: How do we shape vision, collective and place of a city (Initial thought provocation by Bryan Boyer)
Panel-4: New municipality: What roles to take? (Initial thought provocation by Masahiko Shoji)
Panel-5: Circular City: Can it be an alternative of Creative City? (Initial thought provocation by Hiroshi Tamura)
Inspirational talk-2: “Visions and data of future Tokyo ‒ A brief review of Harvard GSD Conference 2017 “Future of Tokyo, Future of Civic Life” by Yasuto Nakanishi

Group work for speculative Tokyo
– Who are citizens?
– Civic identity: How do we shape it collectively?
– Citizen-led city making: How do we shape vision, collective and common in a city
– New municipality: What roles to take?
– Circular City: Can it be an alternative of Creative City?

[Participants]
– Bryan Boyer(Dash Marshall)
– Yasuto Nakanishi (Keio University)
– Yasuaki Kakehi (Keio University)
– Akihiro Kubota (Tama Art University)
– Atsushi Hasegawa (Concent, Inc.)
– Masahiko Shoji (International University of Japan, Global Communication Center)
– Hitachi, Ltd., Global Center for Social Innovation – Tokyo, Vision Design Project
– RE:PUBLIC, Inc.
– Kun-pyo Lee (KAIST)
– Ki-Young Nam (KAIST)
– Minako Ikeda (Kyushu University)
– Toru Koga (Kyushu University)
– Tokushu Inamura (Kyushu University)
– Moe Shimomura (Kyushu University)
– Shinichiro Ito (Kyushu University)

[Contact]
Faculty of Design, Kyushu University
Mail: kidnext(a)design.kyushu-u.ac.jp