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13 A town where Japanese and foreigners live together
– Kyoto in 2025 -
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Foresight is a methodology for "creating a future story with uncertainty." It is necessary to include uncertainty when you create ideas for long term future. We, the Future Design Lab in the Japan Research Institute, help our clients, clients especially in a new business development department or an R&D department, using foresight methodology.
 This time, “Kyoto in 2025 ” is the theme. There are so many foreign tourists in Kyoto now. It might be possible that immigrant to Kyoto increase more and more in 2025... Let’s think about the future of Kyoto where Japanese and foreigners live together with us!

Organizers
Name Organization Specialty
Mamiko Suzuki Future Design Lab.
Japan Research
Institute
Business Consulting
Motoki Kobayashi Future Design Lab.
Japan Research
Institute
Business Consulting
Atsuko Ichioka Future Design Lab.
Japan Research
Institute
Business Consulting
Naoaki Kitta Future Design Lab.
Japan Research
Institute
Business Consulting
Noritaka Momiyama Future Design Lab.
Japan Research
Institute
Business Consulting
Overview

We describe a town where Japanese and foreigners live together as “Kyoto in 2025” with the methodology, “Foresight”.
 At a time when the labor force is shrinking because of the falling birth rate and the aging population, the Japanese government is examining the policies of “foreign student admission” and “acceptance of foreign workers” as well as “women's participation in society.” Especially, as for “foreign student admission”, the government aims at achieving 300,000 in 2020. In fact, the number of foreign students in Kyoto is increasing yearly. Consequently, we guess it will be required to develop the town and the society open to global within the next few decades.
 In the workshop, we will make of Kyoto’s future as the place where foreigners do not visit but (especially, foreign students) live with Japanese. Also, we will find how our life can develop with maintenance of Japanese characteristics in the global society.

Educational Goals
  • Participants can learn how to think about “unexpected future” throughout the methodology “Foresight.”
  • Participants can learn how to create ideas far from the extended line from present.
Design Theory and Design Methods
[Design theory]
  • We will introduce the theory of future foresight that we adopt to envision uncertain future and find out opportunities.
[Design methods]
  • We will deliver future foresight workshop.
  • (参考図書: 「新たな事業機会を見つける未来洞察の教科書」日本総合研究所 未来デザイン・ラボ著)
Schedule
[1st Day: September 7, 2016]
Morning
  • Introduction
    • Program overview
    • Team-building
    • Workshop Guidance
Afternoon(1): Lunch ~ Coffee Break
  • Raising future issues: to raise the issues of Kyoto, 2025, where Japanese and foreigners live together.
    • Input information around the theme
Afternoon(2):Coffee Break ~ Afternoon
  • Fieldwork in town
  • Group work
[2nd Day: September 8, 2016]
Morning
  • Imaginig unexpected social changes: to imagine unexpected social changes in 2025
    • Making schannig cluster based on scanning materials
Afternoon(1): Lunch ~ Coffee Break
  • Ideation for future scenarios: to ieate based on the future issues and unexpected social changes
Afternoon(2):Coffee Break ~ Afternoon
  • Opportunity finding: to find out and describe opportunities
    • Preparing presentation
[3rd Day: September 9, 2016]
Morning
  • Prepare for presentation (KRP)
Afternoon
  • Present workshop results (KRP)