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Sapporo City University
Yesterday we had a great tour of the Design Department at Sapporo City University. Most important was Mitsuhiro Takemura who, in many ways, was the person behind iSummit 08 in Sapporo. Takemura-san started the local lecture series (supported by Digital Garage) that brought Larry Lessig to Sapporo and led the Mayor of Sapporo to invite us to hold the Summit here in 2008.
The Sapporo City team, along with Fumi Yamazaki (Digital Garage), Yoshimura-san (Tri-B) and I met with Takemura-san who is the Library Director and Professor of the Design Department at the University and Sunouchi-san, Media Design Assistant. We talked about many opportunities for collaboration with the university - and about making the opportunity for the Summit to make a sustainable impact on the curriculum of the university.
The facilities of the Design Department are incredible. They have fully-equipped rooms for wood, ceramics, metal, paint, drawing - and that was just the analogue side! It was great to see how the students work with physical materials before they start on digital design - they get a really good grounding in the concepts of design before they move to digital.
It was also wonderful to hear how willing the university is to support and assist us with next year's Summit. We talked about a number of areas of collaboration - including a programme and curriculum for students to learn about Creative Commons and peer production approaches to design in the months before the Summit, and to then work on specific projects to be presented/carried out during the event.
Something we talked about was a project for the students to develop content for mobile phones to be used by participants (to learn about Sapporo) and by locals to learn more about the conference itself. The students could stream video of some of the keynotes, they could develop CC-licenced content about Sapporo, restaurants, its history etc and perhaps work with mobile operators to keep this content in development after the event.
We also talked about the students being involved in the design of Summit apparel and in developing designs for the logo competition. Takemura-san offered us use of their facilities if we needed them, and talked about the need to get students involved in the Summit as a learning experience as much as possible.
We're looking forward to working more with them in the future - Takemura-san, Sunouchi-san and Moshimura-san will form a critical part of the local team that is being formed to administer the event.
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Streamed content would be cool--maybe they could also help with translation? Like building a system to get the keynotes on dotsub?
Michelle Thorne · Berlin (Germany) · 24/8/2007 18:05
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Heather Ford · Johannesburg (South Africa) · 26/8/2007 07:29
your call: is this comment useful?
I would love to get a hold of the curriculum.
I teach 'Digital Media' at three universities in India and have included creative commons as part of the curriculum. I'm looking at improving my course and having a global perspective will help.
Heather, would it be ok for you to connect me with Takemura-san? An email introduction would be greatly appreciated, when you get the time. My email is kiruba at kiruba.com. Thanks in advance.
Kiruba Shankar · Chennai (India) · 17/9/2007 02:53
your call: is this comment useful?