<Practical Exercises to Support Community Activities/Media Creation>

Assoc. Prof. Toru Terada

Department of Natural Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Research KW: Urban Landscape Planning and Design

Prof. Hiroki Kobayashi

Information technology center

Department of Socio-cultural Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo Research KW: Information design

Dr. Saori Kashihara

Department of Natural Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Research KW: Social infrastructure, Town planning/Urban design, Community development, Participation by residents, Urban design

佐々木　遊太（社会文化環境学専攻　非常勤講師）：デジタルコンテンツ制作

Part-time Lecturer. Yuta Sasaki

Department of Socio-cultural Environmental Studies, The Sasaki Seisakusho

Research KW: digital content production

鈴木　亮平（自然環境学専攻　非常勤講師）：都市デザイン、住民参加、まちづくり

Part-time Lecturer. Ryohei Suzuki

Department of natural environmental studies, The Urban design partners balloon

Research KW: Community development, Participation by residents, Urban design

[Aim]

• Students participating in exercises prepare proposals through surveys and discussions to address social challenges

• Residents and regional specialists from inside the community and students and faculty from outside the community participate in the studio to share knowledge, support reconstruction, build new approaches to a better future, and develop human resources capable of carrying out the approaches

[Activities]

• Based on the concept of designing local activities to produce regional features, manage the studio that enables us to think together with people active in community development, to propose and implement plans, and to encourage community members to look forward

• Promote HR development through collaboration among Shinchi Town, civic groups for community development, and U-Tokyo faculty and students with UDC Shinchi playing a central role