Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : September 15, 2021 - September 17, 2021
Traditional design course in Japan has been based on knowledge and efforts have been paid to educate students. As the current computer processes cardinal numbers, engineering today processes knowledge in Euclidean Space. But Euclidean Space requires datasets to be orthonormal and interval scale (with units)-base. These courses worked very good, because changes were smooth yesterday and we could predict the future. But today, environments and situations change not only frequently and extensively, but in an unpredictable manner. So, design education based on past experience does not work anymore. We need to develop a new framework for design. The greatest change is experience used to be a thing of the past, but today we need to create experience. We need to design or plan what we should do and search how we can perform it by trial and error. So, design will be truly creating the future. It is to make our dreams come true. Design courses yesterday were tactics. You learn how to use these tools, because the goal was fixed from the first. But design tomorrow will be exploring the new frontiers. We need to find a new market, a new product. But the resources are limited. So, as American President and explorer Theodore Roosevelt told us, we need to “do what we can, with what you have, where you are”. Design tomorrow will be nothing other than exploration. We need to find new horizons. Thus, design will be design engineering and we create a new society. And this new society is not only self-sustaining, but also self-satisfying. The new design will focus on humans instead of machines.
