Education

Over the past twenty years, I have come to see design not merely as a method or a discipline, but as a unifying philosophy at the heart of transdisciplinary education. At Kyoto University, this idea has shaped the curricula of both the Department of Social Informatics (since 1998) and the Kyoto University Design School (since 2013), where design has served as a conceptual bridge connecting diverse fields. Here, I will reflect on how design has functioned as a shared language among students and faculty from a wide range of academic backgrounds.

After the retirement from Kyoto University, I moved to Waseda University in 2019. In Waseda, I worked on designing a required workshop series called Social and Human Innovation by Practical Science and Engineering (SHIP) for the newly-created international course.