Masaki Suwa Lab

Cognitive Coupling in Practice of Picture Description

Person in Charge of the Project : Risa Yasuda"Cognitive coupling" is a notion that perception, thought, and action affect each other and promote cognition as a whole. Students conducted the following project in order to learn the notion of cognitive coupling. That is, he or she takes a picture of a scene that he or she thought impressive, describes what aspects in the scene has motivated him or her as well as what he or she has noticed in watching the picture afterwards, and thereby sets up a new theme or concept. Then, he or she takes a new picture, having that theme and concept in mind, and repeats the process in cycle. How do the theme and concepts evolve? Cognitive coupling may appear in the way of evolution. Students analyze and make presentation of it.

Exploring a methodology of describing soundscape - vocabulary and grammar

Person in Charge of the Project : Kikuna KuwayamaOur daily lives are surrounded by soundscape. Our body listens to it and feels it via tactile senses, and thereby makes them connected to thoughts and actions. However, the process is really tacit and does not appear in our consciousness. How can soundscape be described? We, utilizing rough sketches, have tried to describe soundscape, derived common elements from those sketches, and found that there are some vocabularies and grammar in it.

The Story of the REMAINS

Person in Charge of the Project : Minami KosekiLooking at a vacant lot and thereby imagining the building and someone's life there used to be, and thinking of the owner of a used book from the handwriting of the book etc. - Focusing on "REMAINS", we detect many stories around it. When we notice there are some REMAINS, what elements do we recognize in the "REMAINS", and how do we make a story out of the "REMAINS"? This project aims at promoting our meta-cognition through writing "The REMAIN's Story". Focusing on "REMAINS", we will encounter new aspects of things in everyday life.