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Faculty of Design
Department of Product Design Industrial Design Course インダストリアルデザイン専攻

Connecting people and changing society through socially responsive design

This course nurtures the industrial designers who will create the appliances, vehicles, and everyday items that support our lifestyles and society in the future. Industrial design’s appeal lies in how the products that you create can be distributed and used by people around the world. In class, we study product materials, forms, and functions and learn how to conduct research to understand the needs of society and the process for coming up with new ideas. In addition, you will build the skills needed to use the latest software and hardware, such as 3D printers and Rhinoceros (3D modeling tools). Another feature of this course is that it often involves collaborations with private enterprises. Through these experiences, we hope to equip students with the planning capacity, production skills, and ability to understand socially responsive design.

Subject Highlights

  • How do you reinvent the tabi sock? Developing products with business in mind.

    [Design Fundamentals 3 / Year 2]
    This class is a collaborative class with a tabi sock maker. Students attempt to create new value within the market for tabi, a kind of traditional Japanese footwear. The goal is not simply to create a product but to design in response to the business as a whole and to make convincing product proposals through repeated prototyping and product inspection.

  • Students are challenged to think about interactive design in this university-industry collaboration.

    [Product Communication 1D / Year 3]
    This class is a university-industry collaboration with a company that manufactures measuring instruments and medical equipment. Students are challenged to think about how to connect people and society on the theme of interaction design. After a tour of the company and discussions with employees, students propose and develop products based on a given theme.

What You Will Study