Construction of an educational system for design students based on scientific experiences

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25560015
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Design science
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (2014-2015); Kobe Design University (2013)
• Principal Investigator: Takaki Ryuji 東京農工大学, 工学部, 名誉教授 (80015065)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MIZUNO Shinji 愛知工業大学, 情報科学部, 教授 (20314099) ; OUCHI Katsuya 神戸芸術工科大学, 芸術工学部, 准教授 (70258177)
• Research Collaborator: BANDO Takaaki ; UEDA Shin ; SCHWABE Caspar
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: デザイン教育 / 科学体験 / 実験観察 / 対称性と比率 / 空間分割 / 形態形成 / 科学と芸術の融合

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Recently, the relation between art/design and natural science is increasing. However,there is almost no research on what kind of education should be given to students of art/design who are interested in this tendency. The present author tried to construct an educational program for art/design students by collecting topics of natural phenomena and basic concepts in natural science and geometry, which are visually recognized and attractive. They are concerned to the geometrical concepts such as symmetry, ratio and space division, the mechanism of pattern formation and the information concepts such as wave and light. These topics are arranged to workshops of experimental observation and constructing hand-made obejcts. The present author practiced this program at two art universities and improved the contents. Summary of this educational proogram and some of students' artworks are presented.

Free Research Field

物理学　形の科学　デザイン教育