Announcement : Participation in the Art Festival

The Joso team is participating in the University of Tsukuba Festival (Soho Festival) that will take place from Saturday October 6th through Monday October 8th. The Joso team has been joining forces with the Ishigenishi Junior High School in Joso City, one of the institutions that had to be rebuilt following the disaster. The team will present the results of their activities. The students are very busy preparing with the approach of tomorrow’s presentation.

Location : 2nd floor of the 6A building in the Sports/Art area

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Announcement – A Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation, 5th session

For the 5th session of A Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation we are honored to welcome Pr. Norio Akasaka (Gakushuin University). He will deliver a lecture entitled “Temporary Housing Plans & the Actual Situation on Hojo: Projects & Concepts of Recovery.”

Thursday, October 4th @ 4:45pm

University of Tsukuba [Bldg 5C, Room 416]

Open to everyone

Culture & Social Innovation / Tokyo Conference

The Culture & Social Innovation / Tokyo Conference is organized by the city of Tokyo, the Tokyo Culture Creation Project office (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History & Culture), the Japan Foundation and the University of Tsukuba. Mr. Kenji Kubota, sub-leader of this project board, will participate as moderator for the first section of this program called “Disaster Recuperation through Cultural and Artistic Projects – Case Studies and Sustainable Support Systems.”

This symposium will serve as an off-campus seminar for the Vision Formulation series. Students of the University of Tsukuba should attend the Culture & Social Innovation / Tokyo Conference on October 19th & 20th. A special reception desk will be set for them.


Schedule:
October 19th, 2012 (Friday) 10:00am~12:30pm
Location – Japan Foundation, JFIC hall “SAKURA” (4-4-1 Yotsuya, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo)
Lecture title – Section meeting program #1

October 20th, 2012 (Saturday) 1:00pm~2:30pm
Location – Tosho Hall (3-2-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)
Lecture title – Plenary meeting program [debrief session]

* The two above lectures are the only ones required for the course, but there are many other interesting and informative events that students are encouraged to attend.

“Culture and Social Innovation, Tokyo Conference” website: http://bunkanochikara.tokyomoon.jp/
There is a “Registration” button to click in order to register, but you do not need to register as the participants of the Vision Formulation already benefit from a registration.

予告 創造的復興:視点構築論 第4回目

創造的復興:視点構築論・第4回目は、安藤邦廣先生(筑波大学芸術系教授)をお招きし、「仮設住宅建設・北条の現状と復興計画・復興支援の考え方」について講演していただきます。

日時:9月28日(金)16:45〜
場所:筑波大学 5C棟416教室。
どなたでも聴講できます。

Announcement – A Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation, 2nd session

For the 2nd session of A Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation we are honored to welcome Pr. Takenori Miyamoto (Tohoku University of Art and Design as Museum) for a lecture entitled “Joint Actions of University Faculty and Students in the Aftermath of Catastrophe.”

TUAD as Museum Homepage → http://www.tuad.ac.jp/museum/index.html

Friday, September 14th @ 4:45pm
University of Tsukuba [Bldg 5C, Room 416]
Open to everyone

Public viewing to cheer for Kazunari Watanabe!

There are presently about 50 households (mainly from Futaba in the Fukushima prefecture) that have been evacuated to Namiki, Tsukuba city. In this context, we are delighted to hear that Kazunari Watanabe, native of Futaba, will attend the London Olympics to compete in the cycle race. Since the people of Futuba have been domestically displaced, we would like to encourage the whole city of Tsukuba to cheer for Kazunari Watanabe! A public screening of the taped broadcast of Kazunari Watanabe’s Olympic cycling event will be shown. The viewing will also be an occasion for a workshop called “Power generation! Miniature cycle race”, so let’s cheer for Kazunari Watanabe while having fun! (Kataoka)

Scientific Visualization: Website Launch !

In preparation for the lecture series that will commence at the start of the second semester, we are proud to launch a special website dedicated to the Scientific Visualization forum. Professors from a variety of fields will direct these upcoming workshops.

We encourage all participants of the class to explore the website. Here you can find links to each professors’ homepage as well as important course information (schedule changes, etc).

http://www.geijutsu.tsukuba.ac.jp/~satanaka/sv/

Psychological Care & Support in the Aftermath of Disaster

Pr. Takahashi and Pr. Kashimura from the medical department gave a lecture that tackled the topic of “The supporting activities of the stricken areas and how they should involve preserving healthy psychological conditions”.
By discussing concrete cases of symptoms, Pr. Kashimura offered very useful and easy-to-understand examples.
Many students participated in the presentation meeting. We hope that this will lead us to the implementation of meaningful project. (Kataoka)