RCIC
Research Center for Industrial Culture

IAMAS OPEN HOUSE 2022

2022

Reassessing research and productions through visitor-oriented viewing

The IAMAS Open House is held every year and has the objective of sharing a “live feeling” with visitors through theories and practical usage but also through efforts in media expression research that aim for the fusion of scientific knowledge with artistic feel.
Consultation meetings are also held targeting those who are deliberating to progress their studies in our university, and the open house is also held to provide an opportunity to speak with professors and current students directly for those interested in taking the entrance exam, research, the activities at IAMAS, etc..
The Open House, “IAMAS OPEN HOUSE” (abbreviated to OH2022 henceforth) that was held from the 22nd of July to the 23rd this year over the span of two days was the first time in three years since 2019 that it was held on campus with visitors able to attend.

The number of visitors at the IAMAS OH2022 was 132 people on the 23rd, and 89 people on the 24th resulting in a total of 221 visitors over the two days. As for the breakdown of the exhibition projects, there were 4 introductions to the school that came from the advancing studies explanatory session events, 12 individual and interested persons projects started from the masters research, and 14 project research exhibitions which resulted in 30 projects in total. Within this only 21 were held in-person only, and 70% of all projects were conducted from requests for a visit-type viewing.
The OH2022 which was the largest one held since the opening of the graduate school, and it was conducted using essentially all of the school’s facility spaces from workshop 24 to the Softopia Japan building. This special characteristic of the OH2022 can be seen as a reaction to the fact that the Open House 2020 and 2021 were both held completely online.

  • Venue

    Hybrid (IAMAS & Online)

  • Period of collaboration

    2022.07.23 - 2022.07.24

Objective and Results

The objective of the OH2022 did not take the form of just introducing the research professors and research results of the students of our university through perfect artwork and refined research results. There were prototypes in their trial-and-error testing phase, ideas that never came to theory, and the Open House was a place for all participants to engage in discussion. In addition, the two most recent ones were held online so taking what was learned from the online experiences, we experimented going back to the physical style too that took place in 2019 and before.
The results of the OH2022 were not only an opportunity to open IAMAS up to the outside world, as exemplified by the “poster exhibition using the Kiosk,” but also to provide students and professors the chance to present researh, creations, personal interests to be shared in their own personal space. As a result of COVID and life before having had a different sense of distance before the idea of maintaining distance was enforced, the investigation term became those restrictions of physical contact and margins of communication. The OH2022 could be said to have given fixed results as an opportunity to remeasure the distance between ourselves and strangers, the relationships between students and faculty, and the length, and largeness of these sorts of communication margins.

  • Faculty in Charge

    • Shigeki Yoshida
    • Kyo Akabane
    • Takahiro Kobayashi
    • Akira Segawa
    • Shigeru Matsui
    • Miki Sasaki
  • Operations

    Chairman:
    Shigeki Yoshida (Professor at IAMAS)

    Committee:
    Kyo Akabane (Professor at IAMAS / Director of the RCIC)
    Takahiro Kobayashi (Professor at IAMAS)
    Akira Segawa (Associate professor at IAMAS)
    Shigeru Matsui (Associate professor at IAMAS)

    Operations:
    Miki Sasaki (RCIC)

    Design:
    Chihiro Oyama

  • Schedule

    2022.05 Kick-off
    2022.06 Project recruitment and adjusting
    2022.07 Open House 2022 held
    2022.08 Report of event