We researched for how to do LGBT marketing in Japan.  LGBT generally mean sexual minorities, like lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.  It is said that they have strong consumption propensity so that many European and American companies try to reach them positively.  We researched for how to do LGBT marketing and how to be diverse organization in Japan.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Koki Hayashi)

We discuss the approach that allows for “health for all people” through the feed work in the region under the difficult situation that is guaranteed the health, because we regard as health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being.  In this project, we will present our field work in Palestine and Cambodia.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Rika Fujiya)

“Life Skill Program” aims at active mutual communication with the others and striving for constant growth through adherence to the cycle of “plan-do-see”.  The students from Tokairin Laboratory who play an active part in sports (basketball, baseball, track and field, cheerleading, skiing, dancing, etc.) and teaching/coaching to the kids (including kids with disabilities) will introduce their own effective Life Skill Programs at ORF.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Takako Uchida)
URL: http://yukon-lab.jimdo.com/

Japan Hiesho Nursing/Midwifery Society
(Person in Charge of the Project: Sachiyo Nakamura)
URL: http://hiesho.kenkyuukai.jp/

Quality, Utility and Explore
(Person in Charge of the Project: Hiroko Komatsu)

We will make a presentation on a new academic area, called ‘psychological fashion’.  We also have ‘Yorozuya counseling’ that the professors help you remove the cause of your worries.  Your worries can be anything.  We are looking forward to hearing your worries and give you advise.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Hiromi Ishige)

Academy Camp is a school of fun to provide children in Fukushima, affected by TEPCO F1 nuclear disaster, with opportunities to play and learn in an extreme fashion.  Children and adults break out of their shells in the camp workshops hosted by professionals in a variety of fields.  In this exhibition, we mainly introduce camps we have conducted in 2013.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Kenji Saito)
URL: http://academy-camp.org/

The words “social issues” may sound big.  However, we believe that a problem becomes a social issue when there is more than one person who are concerned.  We try to solve these “troubles for everyone” by redesigning activities of people and how they relate to one another through web-based services.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Masaki Morosawa)
URL: http://www.facebook.com/necolab

“Manabi no Kiseki” is a project that helps SFC students to design their own learning plans for four years.  They are expected to do so on their own initiatives, but it is difficult without a guidance.  This project visualizes “learning”, or discoveries by senior students through classes and research activities, and shares such discoveries on the web, in the hope to enrich learning experiences of SFC students.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Ayumu Terao)
URL: http://www.facebook.com/necolab

The purpose of this project is to make a “trick” to remove gaps between politics and ordinary people, by providing something more friendly and easier to understand than the government’s official web sites.  In order to translate “political” language into “our” language and “soften” our government, we make a dictionary, a picture book and so on, using information graphics, political illustrations and refined sentences.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Minako Aikawa)
URL: http://www.facebook.com/necolab

Keio Fujisawa Innovation Village, which opened in March 2006, is a collection of companies and organizations aimed to commercialize the results of research carried out at SFC.  Our booth has details of comprehensive support provided in facilities and the rich infrastructure, as well as such items as details of resident companies and information about their business activities.  We would be delighted if entrepreneurs, supporters and collaborators looked over these items.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Katsuya Hirokawa)
URL: http://www.smrj.go.jp/incubation/sfc-iv/

Isagai Laboratory has evolved into Version 3.0 and we aim at social problem solution by ‘Boundary Perspectives’.  In order to design the effective platform for learning with various subjects, suiting, realizing cooperation, it becomes an important point to consider balance for how division of inside and outside is built carefully.  We think that it becomes a practical approach applicable to various fields, such as formation of not only the field of regional vitalization but community of practice and learning, traditional industries and local shopping areas activation, and folkloristics.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Yoshinori Isagai)
URL: http://isagai.sfc.keio.ac.jp/

Recently, local governments in Japan have increasing need to consider extensive and effective community-based adaptation polices to cope with future climate change so that resilience of communities can be build to adapt to impacts of regional climate change.  The goal of this research is to bring about a revolution in Japan social system that would materialize a new social vision aimed at forming a resilient community by increasing their social capital through organizational linkages and social supports.  Okutama City, Tokyo and Kurihara City, Miyagi Prefecture were chosen for pilot studies.  We analyze and estimate community’s vulnerability to climatic impacts using projections based on climate change data focused on localities.  In particular, we developed Green Society ICT Life Infrastructure using sensor networks, measured information about household with respect to energy consumption, health conditions, data of conditions of agriculture crops.  These results will be translated into community’s adaptation policies and will be utilized to reduce ill effects on local energy situations, health and medical conditions, and agriculture vulnerable to climate change.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Ikuyo Kaneko)
URL: http://www.green-lifeinfra.com/

To achieve a society where we each create the future with our own hands, the Takashi Iba Laboratory is creating Pattern Languages to support the creative processes in people.
This exhibition will place focus on the creation process of Pattern Languages.  We will present the history of patterns and how the Iba Laboratory has extended and developed the idea.  We will show how Pattern Languages can be applied to organizations by showing a possible form of employee training.  In addition, take a look also at the many other forms of using pattern languages, including the dialogue workshops designed to urge people share their experiences using patterns.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Takashi Iba)
URL: http://ilab.sfc.keio.ac.jp/

To live lively and beautifully in your daily life, the place where you reflect on yourself is necessary.  The place is not similar to home, workplace, and community place, rather the 4th place for life.  In this presentation, we show a new web system “The 4th Place”, where you can reflect on yourself and write down your feeling with a picture, based on the Generative Beauty Patterns.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Takashi Iba)
URL: http://beauty.sfc.keio.ac.jp/index.html

[The Must-attend 'Language' Class]
At our booth, you can experience classes mainly about ‘language’!  What kind of classes?  Well, for example, such themes as 1) bilingual and multilingual education… it’s not only their ability to speak more than one language that’s amazing about them.  2) Truth and lies of language learning-the science about learning a foreign Language… what should we be careful about when we’re teaching children a foreign language?  3) Language rights…  are the language rights for children who are related to foreign countries, who are deaf protected in Japanese schools?  Also, there will be individual studies associated with the themes above to see!  Don’t miss it!
(Person in Charge of the Project: Atsuko Koishi)

Theme of Oral History seminar is reconsidering our everyday behavior, “Listening”.  We strive to obtain information by voices of real people instead of from written sources such as literature and statistical data.  Connecting with people by “Listening” and “Talking” simply gave us opportunities to feel the warmth of people.  At the forum, each member of this seminar will share about what they have acquired seeking a different perspective by “Listening” on their research project.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Yuichiro Shimizu)

Our laboratory aims for those involved in research, practice and public administration in a variety of fields to work together to study medical ethics and medical safety issues and suggest public policy improvements.
Based on the integrated, inter-disciplinary knowledge we gain, we will suggest training topics, create educational materials, and conduct educational seminars.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Syoichi Maeda)

For students who want to learn foreign languages naturally and efficiently, we design language-learning resources by using language acquisition theory.  For example, we create Spanish learning materials for students who want to keep learning Spanish on their own while they are unable to take the class at school, and those who are not very good at speaking it.  On the other hand, there is a Chinese resource for beginner level.  This is designed as practicing pronouncing Chinese without using kanji.
We also introduce an example of basic study based on language acquisition theory.  Please come and see the world of the research and the material development of learning languages.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Hiroko Terada)

We show the works of our students, such as a computer edited clay animation from ICT department, a statistical graphic poster from the social studies department, 3D model from the mathematics department, and a calligraphy work from Japanese department.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Haruhito Watanabe)
URL: http://www.sfc-js.keio.ac.jp/

SFC have a lot of students who work on cross-sectional style, without shackled by a single laboratory.  We want to provide them a chance of asking for advice and making collaboration.  So to say, this area is free presentation space for them.  Please enjoy finding fun, difficulty and possibility with them.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Yuichiro Shimizu)
URL: http://gakkai.sfc.keio.ac.jp/en/index.html

The Environmental Innovators program is a graduate school designed around project based education, including areas such as environmental design (architecture and urban planning), environmental business, environmental planning and policy, and social entrepreneurialism.  The scale and breadth of problems presented by climate change and other environmental issues requires new solutions and innovation across disciplines, as well as a commitment to multidisciplinary action.  Seeing a need for action as well as a need for innovative thinking, our starting point is that education should be focused on the creative synthesis of projects and coursework.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Wanglin Yan)
URL: http://ei.sfc.keio.ac.jp/index.php?lang=en

As communication styles among young people have been diversifying recently, a model named Rola, has drawn public attention to her.  Unlikely for most young people, her unique communication style of talking to seniors without the usage of keigo put a spotlight on her.  However, upon studying her communication style, it is apparent that there is a clear representation of solicitude through her thoughtful words and actions.  As Rola implicitly displays her solicitude through her distinct style, in order to unveil her communication strategy, I will analyze it through various perspectives such as politeness, wakamonokotoba, and non-verbal actions.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Hiromi Shirai)

Finding out the unique communication patterns on twitter is the final aim of this investigation.  To reach the goal, we need to approach from many ways to structured the communication patterns.
On our investigation, we will use discourse analysis to analyze the communication on twitter and structured the peculiarity.  The research will be approached from conversation strategy and interaction.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Hiromi Shirai)

We have shown how comedians make up stories complicity with others to make us laugh.  Based on the “complicity”, we analyze deployment of conversation.
On 14th April 2013, we interviewed Mr. Enomoto who is the editor of “comical story”.  We approaches the implicit knowledge, how comedians and editor do to make “comical story”.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Hiromi Shirai)

In December 2011, Maya Vinic Producers’ Cooperative (Maya Vinic) opened store-roasted cafeteria at San Cristóbal, Mexico.  This is one of Junichi Yamamoto Laboratory’s outcomes of the support to them by using the scheme of JICA.
The uniqueness of our effort is that Maya Vinic works from seed to cup consistently by themselves.  Also one of FTP members promotes “Maya Vinic Coffee” in a domestic market.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Junichi Yamamoto)
URL: http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~llamame/index.php?id=52

There have been reputational risks, loose potential business with false rumor, on Fukushima crops since 3.11.  We strongly suggest that “The Cooking Studio with Fukushima Farmers” is the best way to solve situations.  In the cooking studio, we arrange a workshop, makes deep understanding for radioactive materials, through cooking with crops which furnished by the Fukushima farmers.  It is an aims to contribute to make reliance or relationships between the farmers and consumers, moreover, we hope “The Cooking Studio” will be an effective action to resolve the reputational risks.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Masamitsu Maruyama)

We are going to introduce a method of career education, “Interviewing-and-Editing”, for Fukushima High School.  Interviewing and Editing is to interview somebody who would be the student career goal or question job experiences someone who lives in the student interest scope, then make a writing, and discuss with other people, finally, to create own awareness of issues or career decision.  Since 3.11, there are various people who are active in to resolve the problems which Fukushima held.  Convert such experience to Fukushima students would be an education opportunity, it would support and encourage for changing mind for their own goals.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Taisuke Kake)

“Water Resources” is essential for our lives.  However, it is predicted that its vulnerabilities are increasing due to changes of precipitation (volume, pattern), and changes of land/cover caused by climate change.  The purposes of this study are clarifying its impact to water resources and to suggest adaptation policy measures with computer simulation.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Ryosuke Kawabe)

Area around Shinagawa and Tamachi Station is designated Tokyo’s Special Zone for Asia Headquarters where Tokyo Metropolitan Government is implementing a new project to attract foreign companies.  Through this project, Shinagawa Tamachi Station Area is expected to enhance its capacity to excess in world interurban competition.  Purpose of this Study is to suggest “SymbioCity” which means Urban Core makes harmonious coexistence with the global environment in terms of Energy Consumption, Water Supply and sanitation, Waste Management, Urban Climate.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Daisuke Ido)

It is a project for the purpose of “a new relationship building with the Japanese education”.  By using the Japanese language teaching method “Iwasaki Method”, we went to class once a week in Japan in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Embassy mainly.  It is a project the possibility of future increases.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Hajime Makino)

In New York Project (NYP), we aim to provide an environment where middle school students can express themselves freely by using English and also a place where students can experience international cultures.  Every two weeks, three to five students from Professor Hasebe’s NYP visit the public junior highs to run a workshop for the students.  Through these workshops, we, NYP members, research how the workshops motivate the students’ attitude towards learning and the process of how students develop a better communication system.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Shinano Ide)

The Young Americans Project focus on “Outreach Tour”, which is the activity of The Young Americans.  We work on case studies under the Support of NPO Jibun Mirai club invites The Young Americans.
We expect the improvements of communication ability, self-expressiveness, independence of youth.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Yoko Hasebe)

Complaints about child abuse exceed 50,000 annually.  Our laboratory thinks about preventing child abuse from the viewpoint of bonding with the local community (fostering social capital).  Since the year before last, we have been conducting field work involving us working with Odawara Municipal Government officials and city residents to provide civic-centered child-rearing support with the aim of building a relationship with the local community.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Masako Kaneko)

We are focusing on linking the cutting-edge science technology to the current social system, applying basic science to the society in order to achieve industrialization.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Atsushi Shinjo)
URL: http://www.kaminari-lab.net/

We are focusing on building a platform for efficient technology procession by combining various sensing data taken by non-invasive measurement technologies with experts’ judgment data and implicit knowledge.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Atsushi Shinjo)

This project is aiming to develop a new human resource training and evaluation service and put it to practical use.  For that, we have developed an objective evaluation method of the quality of nursing care services by means of a data-utilization platform.  This platform enhances caregivers’ awareness by data visualization and supports to get proficient at caregiving.  We have also developed a model of a support service for human resource evaluation by reference to best practices of high-quality care including the model care facility.  Now the validation of our developed new human resource training and evaluation service is going on.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Jun Murai)

Agri-platform Consortium focuses on exemplary farmers’ “expertise of Takumi” such as the judgment capabilities of exemplary farmers and skilled distributors/retailers.  “Expertise of Takumi” forms the base of Japan’s medium- to long-term agricultural growth, and we are also trying to come up with a scheme to protect intellectual rights of “Takumi”.
The consortium aims at the development of a platform that will shape “structures for production and sales for valuable agricultural products”, supported by one of the most advanced agricultural technology bases in the world, in order to realize “aggressive agriculture”.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Atsushi Shinjo)

Career Resource Laboratory, a member of Keio Research Institute at SFC, is a group devoted to research in career-related issues.  Management style of Japanese companies is changing, and so is work style of individuals.  The ownership of career development used to be in the hands of organization, but now it is shifting into the hands of individuals; a new paradigm called career-self-reliance.  Career Resource Laboratory supports and promotes career-self-reliance through research studies, training career advisors, developing self-assessment tools, conducting workshops, and advising human resources professionals regarding new career support programs.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Yasuyo Yoshizawa)

Take the head and the tail from a particular social phenomenon and try to work out how you should understand the overall.  Unlike the old Silent Majority, people on the Internet’s Long Tail are all extremely chatty.  Using a variety of data, we conduct research into these chatty long tails.  Network data is always new and there is no set method of analyzing it.  Please look at the results of our daily trial and error.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Kenji Kumasaka)
URL: http://ken-lab.tumblr.com/

In “Eco-Digi” Project, a combination of environmental simulation technology, parametric digital fabrication technology, and algorithmic assembly technology, alongside a proposal for experimental housing using wood (natural material) are used in order to establish computational methods in urban environment or architectural design with symbiosis of nature and people, for example Keio co-evolution eco-house.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Takeshi Sato)

There is a growing need for easy-to-use fluid simulation environment for media artist and designers.
However, existing software require deep knowledge for Computational Fluid Simulation (CFD).
To address this problem, we have developed a easy-to-use CFD library for non-physicists.
The solver is based on Lattice Boltzmann Method (D2Q9) and provided as a library for Processing.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Akira Wakita)

URL: http://metamo.sfc.keio.ac.jp/

Origami, a traditional creative activity in Japan, is being appreciated for its artistic aspects.  In the recent years, there have been creations with electric parts like LED and Bio-metal used as a part of the work.  We especially focused on the color of Origami, and held a workshop which had the participants make an Origami creation using Origami paper that are able to change colors.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Tatsuya Kaiho)

URL: http://metamo.sfc.keio.ac.jp/

In recent years, the computing power of GPUs has increased, and the use of GPUs for applications other than graphics ones is becoming popular.
The purpose of this study is to explore the possibility of creating Digital Reverberation using GPU-Based Fluid Simulation for musical expression, instead of conventional method such as using multiple delay or impulse response data measured in a real space.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Ryoya Tabata)

URL: http://metamo.sfc.keio.ac.jp/

This project is made for expression of beautiful coral “Hanagasa Sango”.  The tentacle has attracted artists and scholars for many years, from age of Ernst Heckel to present time.  Above all, “Hanagasa Sango” has very beautiful tentacle and its algorithm will give artists development in computer graphics, robotics, and more.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Taiki Niimi)

URL: http://metamo.sfc.keio.ac.jp/

Furoshiki has been used to wrap various things for a long time.  We may express the feelings of gratitude and consideration by wrapping a gift in Furoshiki.  In this study, we incorporate electronic components on a piece of cloth and add the interaction to Furoshiki, and aim at realization of Electric Furoshiki which tells a message in a new way.  By using built-in electronics to a piece of cloth, is added to the interaction of wrapping cloth, with the aim of realization of Electric Furoshiki to convey the message in a new way.  We propose a new way of communication to convey feelings by it.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Ayaka Matsuyama)

URL: http://metamo.sfc.keio.ac.jp/

In humans the audible range of frequencies is usually 20 to 20,000 Hz.  However, frequencies of the inaudible range can be perceived as a physical vibration.  This study visually expresses “sonic matter”, in order to understand their phenomenon and human typical sensory property.
Materials used in this study are five speakers and liquid.  The vibration of the sound from the speaker is transmitted to liquid, and it expresses as undulation.  A realtime computational sound is generated by spectator’s action, and the liquid pattern emerged from the speaker that vibrates.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Yuta Urade)

Design is to completely plan for everything that occurs between people and artificial objects and the technique needed to create items that are easily used, useful and so beautiful they are picked up without thinking.  However, all over the world design is a difficult field to get into professionally and it is hard to make a commercial success of it, so there remain many areas that have not yet been designed.  We have conducted all sorts of communication with experts to find value from the inside of these untapped areas, created prototypes and made them into actual items.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Shunji Yamanaka)

URL: http://cargocollective.com/sfc-xd/filter/yamanaka-lab

We tend to overlook various “good designs” embedded in our daily life, because of their obviousness.
Our attempt is to create a moment from which we can reflect upon their obviousness and to examine how things and events are socially situated.
As exemplars, we will introduce on-going research projects on local arts and crafts shows, and signage within cities.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Fumitoshi Kato)

In Mongolia, government and herders are suffered from the damage caused by extreme weather that names Zud, which needs adaptation strategies for county scales that names Sum.  Mongolia made some kinds of useful dataset to cope with Zud, however, information from this system has never addressed to local people.  We developed a web-based system to implement to adaptation by using existing datasets with GIS techniques.  Results of this study have a possibility to prevent serious effects from Zud through interview to herders in Mongolia.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Akihiro Oba)

The objective of this project is to trace the farming crops by developing a crops monitoring system for farmers in Iiyama, Nagano.  This system consists of sensors and web interface.  Sensors can monitor the usual weather condition such as temperature, humidity, solar radiation, wind direction and speed by weather sensors, and also current situation by web camera.  Additionally, we can monitor the activeness of the crops by calculating NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) through invisible light sensors.  In addition to these land sensor data, it becomes possible to see the statistics and other remote sensing data in our study area through our developed WebGIS interface.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Akihiro Oba)
URL: https://sites.google.com/site/walapj/

The Japanese government established a policy, Feed-in Tariff (FIT) in July 2011 and, as a result, has accelerated the demand for renewable energy. Solar energy is especially seen as a feasible way of providing benefits to local people with local resources, because it has high potential and accessibility. It is designed to accelerate investment in renewable energy technologies, however, it doesn’t have a policy mechanism to ensure local benefits from its use. Because of that gap, there is a risk of greater outflow of local resources.  It is therefore necessary to encourage local firms and communities to enter the power generation market. In this view, this paper aim to develop a database for the feasibility study and to support solar energy entrepreneurs. This support system works for them who don’t have the know-how of this business.  And then, it is expected to contribute regional vitalization.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Tomoki Kobayashi)

Ever since the shift from a socialist country to a capitalist country, Mongolia has undergone dramatic change.  For the case with agriculture, which was the country’s main market at the time, the ownership of livestock and responsibilities of herding suddenly changed from the government to the people, in this case the herders, thus creating new responsibilities to undereducated herders.  Also with the rapid shift to a market economy, many herders increased the number of livestock, thus overgrazing the grassland area, which eventually lead to the desertification and vulnerability it is facing today.  Now, many herders are at a new phase where they give up their lives as herders and move into the city, especially the capital Ulaanbaatar (where nearly half of the population is living), in search for a better life.
Our group discusses the case for herders moving into Ulaanbaatar by discussing the push factors of continuing life as herders, and the pull factors of moving into the city.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Sayuri Ichikawa)

Since being struck by a massive tsunami in the Tohoku region from the 3.11 earthquake in 2011, many areas are taking action in seawall construction projects.  Though the construction of seawalls can provide more safety up to a certain level, its construction can have an impact on the environment and the community in that area, making it difficult for many areas to carry out the project smoothly.  Our group focuses on the case in the Koizumi area, located in Kesenuma City, Miyagi Prefecture, discussing whether the seawall-construction project should be carried out or not through debating a number of times.  Though the area is preparing for a 20 billion yen project, the shore is also extremely important in terms of marine and tourist attractions as it is famous for being the home for many rare species.  Focusing on where the area should be headed, and what they should protect and preserve, our group raises the alarm through a mutual stance.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Tomoyuki Ikeshita)

We introduce the research on the media which tell the charm of a town.
In the “Ito fieldwork”, we introduce the measure of the information design which discovers the charm and the newness of a shopping street of Ito, and they are told through a poster. “MAPLetter” is the town guide media of the new way of thinking which connect a place and a feeling using a pattern language. “Dog camera” is the media which look at a town from eyes of a dog, and discover the charm of a town.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Emiri Nakano)

We demonstrate the media which make culture unique to Japan more pleasant with technology. “Osawari manzai” is an user participation type comic dialog which uses two mannequins, and is the media which make tedious waiting time pleasant. “fumbrella” is the vinyl umbrella media which stuck the picture shared on the network, and the sticker of the character, and we walk the street with it. “Penlight media” is the annotation systems which record a message in real time to a concert, and can share impression of a concert on a network.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Kazuma Hidaka)

We demonstrate the media which connect people, a person and a person, and a place by music or a speech technology. “Uwasa radio” is the media which make it possible to hear the rumor of a town which flows from a store, a building, or a signboard using a smart phone.
“30 seconds KARAOKE” is the media which invite people to a karaoke box by the short music which contributes to twitter. “Town walk music” is the town walk media by which the music for the time which the user inputted on the smart phone is generated.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Kousuke Miyasaka)

We introduce the voice synthesis technology used as the foundation of voice media.
* The project is related to the Joint Research with NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Katsuhiko Ogawa)

The development of the technology has lead to the birth of innovating digital fabrication machines, such as 3D printers, laser cutters, and 3D CNC machines.  In Hiroya Tanaka Laboratory, we use these new machines to make what we need or use personally.  These products are very unique, and never seen in markets.  In this booth, we will introduce some of the products that were made by a very personal motivation of the makers.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Keita Sekijima)

URL: http://fab.sfc.keio.ac.jp

In order to make unique and creative products, not only do we need new tools to make them, but we even need a new environment to make these things.  This booth introduces the attempts and examples of space to make something creative and unique, done by Tanaka Laboratory.  We will also present the space design that was needed in order to accomplish the 9th International Fab Lab Conference in Yokohama this summer.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Koki Akiyoshi)

URL: http://www.fab9jp.com/

The appearance of the new fabrication machines has lead to casual product design at a level that we had never imagined before.  Now, we can make things that we never dreamed of.  This situation has created an environment where we, users, communicate with software to make the product important than ever before.  In this corner, we will introduce the new programs that are best for a fabrication of specific product.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Taisuke Ohshima)

The creation of unique products demand tools and machines that never existed before.  Inventing new tools has become easier due to the new digital fabrication tools.  This booth shows the creative machines that was developed by the laboratory members, and we will also discuss the future of digital fabrication tools and fabrication itself.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Yuichi Hirose)

(To be announced)
(Person in Charge of the Project:Shohei Matsukawa)

URL: http://000lab.com

The study discusses the management of urban rivers in the future.  The main purpose of this study is clarifying a relation between urban rivers and its basin on the history.  When the rapid economic growth in 1960′s-1970′s passed, most of urban rivers in Japan have lost roles of irrigation and water transportation.  Recently urban rivers’ role is just a drain.  In the future, redevelopment of urban construction and infrastructure dilapidated becomes required.  This study considers how to use urban rivers as a good infrastructure.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Keisuke Shima)

Hachikuma Project is an open-to-the-public project of bird migration, the Oriental Honey Buzzard.
In spring and autumn, every year, bird migration attracts great interest of many people in Japan and other parts of the world.
The purpose of this project is to make public on the web the real time status of bird migration via satellite tracking, to show it to many people in Japan and other parts of the world, and then to deepen their understanding of bird migration and also of how nature works.
Which actual southward route do our tracked honey buzzards take?  When and where do they arrive?  How do they come back to Japan next spring?  We would like to enjoy tracking them together with many people in the world.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Hiroyoshi Higuchi)

URL: http://hachi.sfc.keio.ac.jp/home_e.html

To achieve a society where we each create the future with our own hands, the Takashi Iba Laboratory is creating Pattern Languages to support the creative processes in people. In this exhibition, we will be exposing the “Good Old Future Patterns”.  This is a Pattern Language created by mining ideas from traditional Japanese design.  These “good and old” ideas can be then be applied to modern contexts to create new things which inherit the good qualities from the past – a “good old future”. In addition, we will also present two more new pattern languages: a pattern language for designing and creating a wedding, and a pattern language for creating clothing.  Showings of film related to pattern languages will also be held.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Takashi Iba)

URL: http://ilab.sfc.keio.ac.jp/

This project encourages the town, which was damaged by the earthquake and has decided to shift to high elevation.  This activity’s goal is to make the system that keeps the elements of the original town.  Our target area is Moune, Kesenuma City, Miyagi Prefecture.
We use the Oral History method (interview), to reorganize local information.  We return the information to inhabitants and we encourage them to make the image of their town’s future.  The project is placed as the start line for the support of disaster area.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Sho Ito)

Kesennuma City is famous fisherman’s town in Japan, but farmers also exist a lot.  Because most of Kesennuma’s farms are located in the hilly and mountainous land and influenced the tsunami, a difficult agricultural problem in Kesennuma is spreading to the current state.  Our agricultural group created a Facebook page on its own, to perform the visualization of Kesennuma agriculture and agricultural products for Kesennuma citizens, and aimed to be interested in local agriculture even a little.  Through agricultural discussion and questionnaire to the public, we will continue to analyze how change was born by the project implementation.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Hidenobu Takubo)

IT literacy group belonging to Kesennuma Reconstruction Project has been researching how people can form information and send them by using the social network system (SNS), especially by using the Facebook. We have been conducting survey at prefab shopping districts.  For the research, we have interviewed people working at the shop and held some Facebook workshops to cultivate the power for understanding and using SNS to provide information of the shops to people elsewhere.  In this year’s ORF, our group would like to introduce our activities and a project that we suggested to the shopping districts.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Hiroaki Yoshino)

Cyber Sound Project (CSP) is started in 1990 as a project to do research and creation of computer music.  This project is the first attempt at a university in Japan, and came to the human resources produced to lead in this field.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Toru Iwatake)

URL: http://csp.sfc.keio.ac.jp/main.html

Nakajima Laboratory Project is concerned on old Tokai Fujisawa post town which is the origin of Fujisawa City and on the past Tokai historical road.  With the collaboration of Fujisawa City office, our laboratory is committed to the historical “matchi-zukuri” with community.  Not only historical context of Edo era, our perspective is to look on periods before and after the periods such as Meiji era to find out the value of Fujisawa.  From the findings of digging up variable historical resources from variable layered chronology, our laboratory targets to inspect contextual urban design at Fujisawa-post town.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Naoto Nakajima)

Since 2011, Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory has studied methods for ‘simple’ architecture that is easily assembled using veneer plywood.
Veneer plywood is used all over the world because of cheap price and easy to obtain.
Thanks to using prevalent lumbers such veneer plywood, people not having the knowledge of architecture such students or amateurs can build architecture easily.
In fact, we design and construct ‘Veneer house’ in Minamisanriku and in Maeamihama, ‘Learning center’ in Myanmar and so on.  At ORF 2013, we exhibit model of ‘simple’ architecture and look forward people to understand possibility for the method of veneer plywood.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Hiroto Kobayashi)

Currently, Daijiro Mizuno Laboratory of Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus is working on two projects, based on the “design research for the everyday practice of ordinary people” and “fashion design as socio-cultural phenomena”.  One of them is thought of the new ways of selling, buying, creating, and telling the Fashion Design called “Dressmaking 2.0″.  The other one is “bona fide design” which is replacing the inconvenience and malicious design to the social problem solution.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Daijiro Mizuno)

URL: http://mznlabsfc.tumblr.com/

Our laboratory carries out research on the reinvention of urban spaces in a maturing society leading practical activities through cooperation with local society.  We will prepare 4 presentations; the Fujisawa 391 project revitalizing a combined commercial buildings of 1960-70s, the Ginza project reorganizing pedestrian experiences by cafés as resting places, the Fuji-Yoshida project rediscovering the cultural heritages relating to worship for Mt. Fuji as new resources for tourism, and the Oku-Asakusa project restoring places for community by pop-up installation.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Naoto Nakajima)

URL: http://www.going-urbanics.net/english/

Kuchinoerabu Island, located in Kagoshima Prefecture, is having a huge problem with decrease of population, which is also happening in all over Japan.  To find the way to solve this problem, our two laboratories collaborates together from educational and architectural point of view.  Every summer we visit the island and open workshop and construction.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Yoko Hasebe)

URL: http://elove.sfc.keio.ac.jp/project.html

This is a project to build and run an elementary school at Kinshasa in Democratic Republic of Congo, named ‘Acadex’.  This project has reached its 6th year, organized by many people including Mr. Bedelo Simon, the founder of Acadex, members from the Yoko Hasebe Laboratory and so on along with the local people.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Yoko Hasebe)

We are suffering from serious flaws of existing authentication systems where users should always be afraid of losing something: forgetting passwords, losing authentication devices, etc. We introduce a password generation/management system where users should never worry about such concerns.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Toshiyuki Masui)

We introduce a new software/hardware architecture with which anybody can benefit from the computing resources available on the Internet at any place, including living environments like kitchens, baths, and street corners.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Sho Hashimoto)

We introduce an Web-based simple and powerful software architecture which enables flexible communication between distributed software systems and people.  Using our framework, creating software for smart living environment becomes extremely easy.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Takumi Baba)

We show various new visualization methods, filtering methods and interaction techniques for handling the “big data” on the Net.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Masaya Usuki)

In Yasuaki Kakehi Laboratory, concerning on the relation between humans and real-world, we aim not only to support users but also to encourage to acquire (Habilitate) new skills or perspectives by information media.  We develop novel interaction between human and real-world by mediating human’s bodies (Human), physical matters (Atoms), and information (Bits).  This time, we propose sense habilitating media by supporting and expanding user’s creation or action.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Yasuaki Kakehi)

URL: http://www.xlab.sfc.keio.ac.jp/

In Yasuaki Kakehi Laboratory, we attempt to construct substantial information and interaction that does not remain inside screens by focusing on general and natural materials existing in the real world, taking advantage of their characteristics.
In this exhibition, we introduce interactive medias and information presentations using or extending color and deformable characteristics of materials.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Yasuaki Kakehi)

URL: http://www.xlab.sfc.keio.ac.jp/

As basing on the situation of multi-user information technology, we aim to develop technologies which overlap information to real-world with focusing on people’s intuitive understanding or face-to-face communications.  For instance, we present our researches on supporting the experience at museums, classrooms or offices utilizing Augmented Reality technology such as a media for encouraging non-verbal communication or a tool for sharing people’s emotions.
(Person in Charge of the Project: Yasuaki Kakehi)

URL: http://nae-lab.org/crest/en/