Opening
KMD Forum was
held on Keio University’s Mita Campus. This was a festival for the Keio
graduate school of Media and Design (KMD). I was the faculty member on duty.
Sumo
Wrestling
The theme was
“The Pop & Tech of 2020”. By inviting figures at the cutting edge of fields
such as popular culture, technology, education, business, sports, and design,
this forum inquired about 2020.
Kimono
I wanted to try
to design the platform power of a university. By taking advantage of the KMD
philosophy of engaging in real projects with cooperation between industry,
government, and academia with the four mainstays of design, technology,
management, and policy, a variety of people participated to enact their daily
lives as an event.
At the
specially planned “Our Opening Ceremony 2020,” five representatives of the
media art world, including the producer who supervised the closing ceremony of
the Rio Olympics, showcased their proposals for an opening ceremony with the
theme “expressions of the future in the year 2020 depicted by digital
technology.”
This ceremony
displayed one splendid plan after another using the void of outer space.
Spectators on the floor contributed accurate comments concerning each proposal.
I myself thought that it would have been good to implement all of the plans at
the same time.
On the
same stage, a variety of comedians, female company presidents, guitarists, and
members of the Diet took the podium to discuss topics of industry and culture.
While I aimed to create a chemical reaction of diverse opinions, I was
surprised to find that the dialogue that I encouraged was as constructive as ever.
At the
Workshop Collection - Mini, seven groups of comedians participated to conduct a
workshop aimed at children. Clever children played the deadpan straight role to
the comedians’ wholehearted and perceptive funny-man routines.
Wrestler
Saori Yoshida exhibited a competition of the superhuman sport HADO, which uses
augmented reality. “Anyone who applies this technology to their body can defeat
even Saori Yoshida!” I’ve been using this catchphrase since the Superhuman
Sports Society was founded last year.
On this
stage, a six-year-old boy wrestled with Ms. Yoshida and, achieving an
impressive victory, brought that catchphrase to life. Thanks!
At the same time,
other events such as a symposium on the computerization of education, a
business contest for budding entrepreneurs, a start-up event in cooperation
with the IE Business School of Spain, and an IT Policy Seminar jointly
sponsored by Stanford University were also being held.
Signage 3
Twenty
digital signs were placed in the venue so that telecommunications experiments
could be performed with broadcast waves. Also, young ladies dressed in dozens
of outfits representing clothing of countries around the world appeared and a
troop of 100 different costumed characters competed with them.
In any
case, we did a variety of other things including flying drones in the venue
(after meeting the regulations) and displaying a model railway.
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