Sendai School of Design: Project Driven Design Education Based on a Wide Range of Highly Adaptive Collaboration
Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Design Research and Education (ICADRE14)
Year: 2014
Editor: Edwin Koh, Victor Shim, Tan Woei Wan, Ian Gibson, Andi S. Putra
Author: Motoe, Masashige
Institution: Tohoku University, Japan
Section: Design Education
Page(s): 049-052
DOI number: 10.3850/978-981-09-1348-9_039
ISBN: 978-981-09-1348-9
Abstract
Sendai School of Design is a design education program to nurture collaborative creative workers as personnel who will help activate the local area launched by Tohoku University in cooperation with the city of Sendai, Japan. Educational system at SSD centers on collaborations between working designers and engineers who are active in a variety of fields including architecture, urban design, product design, graphic design and ICT systems, and graduate students in architectural design. By taking part in some projects, based on local and actual issues, the designers, with their business experience, and the students, with their academic knowledge, realize a multifaceted, adaptive type of collaboration to produce design from a variety of perspectives.
Keywords: Design Education