“Culture X Engineering” Research Group: Implementation Report and Prospects

Abstract

In July 2019, supporting alumni of the University of Tokyo EMP Program cooperated with IIS to launch “Culture X Engineering” as a research group open to all University of Tokyo faculty and EMP alumni. By this point in August 2021, the group has already met twenty times. In addition to researchers with expertise in a wide variety of fields, professionals also participate in the group, helping to promote “HSP” (Humanities-Science-Professional) collaboration. This report on the group’s activities in 2019 and 2020 provides an outline of each meeting’s contents, as well as a discussion of the group’s achievements, the challenges it has faced, and its prospects for the future.