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Event Outline

Kyoto University Summer Design School is intensive three-day design workshop.

The event had more than 900 participants in total in the past four years.
In the workshop, participants and facilitators from different area of expertise form a team for each theme and challenge a variety of actual social problems.

This is the fifth year since this annual event started in 2011. For this year we have set a recommended theme “Kyoto”, and have many workshop themes related to Kyoto.

We look forward to your participation.




Kyoto University Summer Design School 2015
Date September 16 (wed) – 18 (fri), 2015
Place Kyoto Research Park (KRP)
Admission 1,000JPY (as coffee break fee)
Limit of participants approx. 150
Organized by



 Kyoto University Collaborative Graduate Program in Design
Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University
Design Innovation Consortium
Co-hosted by







 Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University
Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University
Faculty of Fine Arts and Graduate School of Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts
Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kyoto Institute of Technology
Registration


 Choose a workshop theme you want to participate from the list below. You can go to registration site from each workshop theme page.
Eligible Participants

 University undergraduate/ graduate students, company employees, etc. Participants are required to attend the whole three-day workshop with enthusiasm.
Contact
Summer Design School 2015 Secretariat

Email: info-sds2015＊design.kyoto-u.ac.jp
　　 (Please replace (*) with @)
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Workshop Themes / Registration


(Other workshops than the following themes will be conducted only in Japanese.
To see the whole list, go to Japanese page.)


[Important Notice] 　
  • Participants must attend the whole three-day program. You cannot attend only a part of the event.
  • A coffee break fee (1,000JPY) will be charged. Please pay the fee through the application site "Peatix." If you choose Convenience Store/ATM as the payment method, please note that your seat will be automatically cancelled unless you pay the fee within the assigned time limit. If you are attending the social gathering after the event, please pay the admission on-site.
  • A participant can apply for one workshop theme only.
  • If you have applied for more than one theme or you wish to change your theme to apply for, make a cancellation through the Peatix site. Please note that the cancellation fee (500JPY) may be charged. For more details, check here.
    • 05
    Kyoto
    theme
    Service Design for Foreign Tourists to Kyoto←click
    ●Organizers
    Hideki Shirane　mct, inc.
    Shiho Ishihara　mct, inc.
    Yoichi Sugiki　mct, inc.
    Sayuri Kawakita　mct, inc.
    Eric Frey　mct, inc.

    詳しい資料はこちらから（PDF版）
    16
    Kyoto
    theme
    SHIKAKE design of inconvenient therefore beneficial Kyoto tour←click
    ●Organizers
    H. Kawakami　Design Unit, Kyoto Univ.
    T. Hiraoka　Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto Univ.
    N. Matsumura　Graduate School of Economics, Osaka Univ.

    詳しい資料はこちらから（PDF版）
    23
    Free
    theme
    Save World’s Endangered Languages!←click
    ●Organizers
    Yohei Murakami　Unit of Design, Kyoto University
    Arbi Haza Nasution　Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University
    Toru Ishida　Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University

    詳しい資料はこちらから（PDF版）
    26
    Free
    theme
    Design for Immobile Automobile Utilization←click
    ●Organizers
    Toshihiro Hiraoka　Dept. of Systems Science, Graduate School
                 of Informatics, Kyoto University
    Noriaki Oba　Research Department, Technova Inc.
    Atsuko Kuge　Research Department, Technova Inc.

    詳しい資料はこちらから（PDF版）
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    Venue

    Event site
    Workshop: Atrium in KRP East area (next to Bldg. 1)
    KRP Area Map

    Map inside KRP
    Access to KRP

    Access

    From JR Kyoto Station to KRP

    JR San-in line (Sagano line)
    Take a local train (which stops at every station) and get off at the first stop, Tambaguchi Station (4 minutes, 140 JPY). 4 minutes to walk from the station to Kyoto Research Park.

    By Taxi
    10 minutes (Approx. 1,000 JPY)