Studies of Kansei Sociology for Realization of Symbiotic Society in High-tech Environment.

• Project/Area Number: 24500261
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sensitivity informatics/Soft computing
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: TSUCHIYA Junji 早稲田大学, 文学学術院, 教授 (80287937)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
• Budget Amount: ¥5,460,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,260,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
• Keywords: 感性 / 共生社会 / 科学技術 / 感性社会学 / 社会学 / イタリア / 国際情報交換（イタリア） / 倫理的消費 / 社会的責任 / ブランディング / スローライフ / 産業集積地 / グローカル / 国際情報交換 / モード / ファッション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project has explored how the social function of advanced technology contributes to construct a global sustainability and social symbiosis, and analyzing theoretically the social macro trend of paradigm conversion from the modernist principle based on the economical supremacy and environment burden system to the new conceptual framework of postmodernist perspective which has been seeking to implement more social responsible and sustainable endeavors based on the symbiotic ideas and the environment conscious production system. In this regard, this research has discussed the two original Japanese cultural concepts, elaborated in the scientific scene in recent years, “kansei”and “kyosei” derived originally from the religious concept of symbiosis, which have been becoming the core ideas indispensable today for rethinking the structural conditions promoting the technological development faced to the problem-solving practices to the soial responsible and ethical issues.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] La Nuova Tecnologia Sostenibile per Una Società Simbiotica dei Consumi. (2015)
  • Author(s): Tsuchiya, Junji
  • Journal Title: Rivista PIC-AIS Volume: Special Issue Pages: 34-36
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] Kansei Engineering and Kyōsei Philosophy: A New Frontier for Theorizing Ethical Fashion. (2015)
  • Author(s): Tsuchiya, Junji
  • Journal Title: A.M.Curcio (ed.), Le Mode di Oggi, Milano: Lupetti Editore Volume: Book
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] イタリアン・ファッションの現在：ブランディングとサステイナビリティ (2014)
  • Author(s): 土屋淳二
  • Journal Title: 慶応大学文学部編 地中海の魅力 2012／地中海の誘惑 2013 Volume: 慶応大学 Pages: 80-88
• [Journal Article] 世界をみすえたキャリアのあり方 (2014)
  • Author(s): 土屋淳二
  • Journal Title: 岩上真珠・大槻奈巳 編 『大学生のためのキャリアデザイン入門』 Volume: 有斐閣 Pages: 125-141
• [Journal Article] 黎明期イタリア社会学の成立過程にみる思想的潮流 (2014)
  • Author(s): 土屋淳二
  • Journal Title: 社会学年誌 Volume: 55 Pages: 117-135
  • NAID: 40020026206
• [Journal Article] “Il vantaggiosStrategico del MADE IN ITALY nei mercati globali,” (2013)
  • Author(s): Junji Tsuchiya
  • Journal Title: Il made in Italy nel mercato del lusso, Quaderni-Pubblicazione periodica della Camera di Commercio. Volume: luglio-2013 Pages: 62-76
• [Journal Article] Postmodernita' e Moda tra Reale e Virtuale (2012)
  • Author(s): Tsuchiya, Junji
  • Journal Title: A.Mascio (ed.) Fashion Game Volume: Milano: Franco Angeli Pages: 125-132
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Il "Tecno-culturalismo" nel Giappone Post-Moderno (2012)
  • Author(s): Tsuchiya, Junji
  • Journal Title: Tsuchiya, J., M.Tessarolo and A.Marazzi (eds.) Stili Glocali: Forme e Tendenze di Mode Giovanili Volume: Padova: C.L.E.U.P. Pages: 17-40
• [Journal Article] イタリアン・モードの挑戦 (2012)
  • Author(s): 土屋淳二
  • Journal Title: 星美学園短期大学日伊総合研究所報 Volume: 8 Pages: 60-63
• [Presentation] Una Riflessione sull‘Incarnazione Identitaria: La tecnocultura e l'animismo nello spirito giapponese (2015)
  • Author(s): Tsuchiya, Junji
  • Organizer: Internatinal Conference: Media Mutations, Infiniti Mondi Possibili, Spereroi e Cosplay fra Moda e Immaginario Visuale Contemporane
  • Place of Presentation: Universita’ degli Studi di Bologna, Sede Universitaria Valgimigli (Rimini)
  • Year and Date: 2015-05-06
• [Presentation] Nuove frontiere della tecnocultura nell’epoca globale per una società sostenibile (2015)
  • Author(s): Tsuchiya, Junji
  • Organizer: Osservatorio sui consumi delle famiglie, OSCF, Dipartimento TeSIS; Tempo, spazio, immagine e società, e Dipartimento di Filosofia, Psicologia e Pedagogia
  • Place of Presentation: Universita' degli Studi di Verona
  • Year and Date: 2015-03-19
  • Invited
• [Presentation] La Nuova Tecnologia Sostenibile per Una Societa' Simbiotica (2015)
  • Author(s): Tsuchiya, Junji
  • Organizer: Corso di Economia e Gestione Aziendale (Service Management), Facoltà di Economia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano
  • Place of Presentation: Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano
  • Year and Date: 2015-03-17
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Il tecnoculturalismo nell'eta' post-umana: Una riflessione sociologica per il futuro (2015)
  • Author(s): Tsuchiya, Junji
  • Organizer: Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca sociale, Universita' degli Studi di Trento
  • Place of Presentation: Universita' degli Studi di Trento
  • Year and Date: 2015-03-12
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Ingeneria Kansei e sociologia dei consumi in Giappone (2014)
  • Author(s): Tsuchiya, Junji
  • Organizer: Corso di Economia e Gestione Aziendale (Service Management), Facolta’ di Economia, Universita’ Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano
  • Place of Presentation: Universita’ Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano
  • Year and Date: 2014-10-06
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Il multiculturalismo e la sua sostenibilità per la societa' simbiotica: Dal punto di vista del Made in Italy (2014)
  • Author(s): Tsuchiya, Junji
  • Organizer: Lectio Magistralis di LDipartimento di Studi linguistico-letterari, storico-filosofici e giuridici, Universita' degli Studi della Tuscia
  • Place of Presentation: Universita' degli Studi della Tuscia
  • Year and Date: 2014-10-01
  • Invited
• [Presentation] 2K ( Kansei + Kyōsei ): Nuove frontiere della technologizzazione per una società sostenibile (2014)
  • Author(s): Tsuchiya, Junji
  • Organizer: Sociologia della comunicazione e scienze dello spettacolo, Dipartimento di Scienze della Comunicazione e Discipline Umanistiche, Universita’ degli Studi di Urbino
  • Place of Presentation: Universita’ degli Studi di Urbino
  • Year and Date: 2014-09-24
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Corporate Sustainability and Symbiotic Corporatism in Japan (2014)
  • Author(s): Tsuchiya, Junji
  • Organizer: Seminario ICC-GGIL
  • Place of Presentation: Camera diCommercio Italiana di Tokyo
  • Year and Date: 2014-08-29
  • Invited
• [Presentation] “Il tecnoculturalismo nell'età post-umana: nuove frontiere della modernità liquida per una società sostenibile,” (2013)
  • Author(s): Junji Tsuchiya
  • Organizer: XLII Convegno AISS (イタリア記号学会全国大会)
  • Place of Presentation: リミニ（イタリア）
  • Invited
• [Presentation] “Kyousei e Kansei: Etica Sostenibile e Robot nel Giappone di Oggi,”
  • Author(s): Junji Tsuchiya
  • Organizer: Special conference
  • Place of Presentation: ミラノ大学ビコッカ校（ミラノ，イタリア）
  • Invited
• [Presentation] “Robotics toward a Sustainable Society,” Special Lecture [Dipartimento di Economy; 5 march, 2014; Aula G020-Ubaldi Universita' Cattolica di Milano]
  • Author(s): Junji Tsuchiya
  • Organizer: Special lecture
  • Place of Presentation: ミラノカトリック大学（ミラノ，イタリア）
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Technology and Senseware
  • Author(s): Tsuchiya, Junji
  • Organizer: Giornata di Studi-The Rising the Web: Web2.0, Consumi e Moda
  • Place of Presentation: Alma Mater Studiorum-Universita’ di Bologna, Facolta’ di Lettere e Filosofia
• [Book] Cooperativa Libraria Editrice Universita di Padova (2012)
  • Author(s): Tsuchiya, Junji., M.Tessarolo and A.Marazzi (eds.)
  • Total Pages: 128
  • Publisher: Stili Glocali: Forme e Tendenze di Mode Giovanili, C.L.E.U.P