Tokyo Institute of Technology, Musashino Art University and AZ Holdings
University-University-Industry joint innovation workshop No 1

Concept designing-call for participants and teaching assistants

Society and companies will increasingly need engineers with a good design sense. These will be able to bring together diverse perspectives to create goods which express an optimum balance between design and function. Concept designing fundamentally embodies the issue of how to translate ideas and thinking (concept) into a physical form. We will develop the framework of existing ideas, discuss, make things in our hands, and give presentations. We won't say good or bad! Together with Musashino Art University's Design Information Group students, we will explore and grasp the important stages involved in "taking an idea and putting it into a form"- covering various possibilities, viewpoints, trial and error and important matters which are often overlooked.
Why not use your five senses to observe the exciting moment when a concept gives birth to a design? Anyone from Tokyo Tech can join.

Schedule：
2011 February
16日 Wednesday 13.30-16.30　amu Ebisu Creative Space
17日 Thursday13.30-16.30　Tokyo Institute of Technology Monodukuri Centre
19日 Saturday13.30-16.30　amu Ebisu Creative Space

※Participation is assumed on all days. Consultation is required for partial participation.
Numbers: around 6. If participating as a teaching assistant, an honorarium will be paid. When available spaces are filled, applications will be closed.
Participation is free. 　
Participation is also welcome from outside the university.
Applications to:creative-flow@ryu.titech.ac.jp

Text: Mathew Fredrick "Ideas in architecture design 101" MIT Press.

※This text is taken as a starting point, participants will discuss and decide one theme at the beginning, and we will make a simple molding design in Tokyo Institute of Technology Monodukuri Centre.

Organiser: TokyoTech Science and Art Lab Creative Flow (Overseas Student Centre- Nohara Lab); Monodukuri Centre; Musashino Art University Design Information Group.In cooperation with AZ Holdings

Place：
●amu　http://www.a-m-u.jp/
Ebisu West 1-17-2 [MAP(google map)]

●Tokyo Institute of Technology Monodukuri Centre　http://www.mono.titech.ac.jp/
Tokyo, Meguro-ku, Ookayama 2-12-1, Ookayama Campus West 2 Building, 1st floor [MAP(access map)]