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SEMINAR A
| Lecturer(s) | KOBAYASHI, HIROTO |
|---|---|
| Credit(s) | 4 |
| Academic Year/Semester | 2025 Fall |
| Day/Period | Mon.5,6 |
| Campus | SFC |
| Class Format | Face-to-face classes (conducted mainly in-person) |
| Registration Number | 03256 |
| Faculty/Graduate School | POLICY MANAGEMENT / ENVIRONMENT AND INFORMATION STUDIES |
| Year Level | 1, 2, 3, 4 |
| Field | RESEARCH SEMINARS SEMINARS |
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| Prerequisites(Recommended) | B6028 デザインスタジオ基礎/BASIC DESIGN STUDIO B6029 デジタルデザイン基礎/BASIC DIGITAL DESIGN C2018 デザインスタジオ（住まいと環境）/DESIGN STUDIO(HOUSING AND ENVIRONMENT) C2019 デザインスタジオ（自然と建築）/DESIGN STUDIO(LANDSCAPE AND ARCHITECTURE) C2020 デザインスタジオ（都市と建築）/DESIGN STUDIO (ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM) C2023 アーバンルーラルリデザイン/URBAN RURAL RE-DESIGN |
| Related Classes | B6028 デザインスタジオ基礎/BASIC DESIGN STUDIO C2018 デザインスタジオ（住まいと環境）/DESIGN STUDIO(HOUSING AND ENVIRONMENT) C2019 デザインスタジオ（自然と建築）/DESIGN STUDIO(LANDSCAPE AND ARCHITECTURE) C2020 デザインスタジオ（都市と建築）/DESIGN STUDIO (ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM) |
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| K-Number | FPE-CO-05003-211-87 |
| Course Administrator | Faculty/Graduate School | FPE | POLICY MANAGEMENT / ENVIRONMENT AND INFORMATION STUDIES |
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| Department/Major | CO | ||
| Main Course Number | Level | 0 | Faculty-wide |
| Major Classification | 5 | Research Seminars | |
| Minor Classification | 00 | Seminar | |
| Subject Type | 3 | Elective subject | |
| Supplemental Course Information | Class Classification | 2 | Lecture |
| Class Format | 1 | Face-to-face classes (conducted mainly in-person) | |
| Language of Instruction | 1 | Japanese | |
| Academic Discipline | 87 | Comprehensive / Integrated Areas (Natural Sciences) | |
Course Summary
What we are pursuing：
"Making Your Place Where You Feel a Sense of Belonging"
Pursuing Do-It-Anyway Manner for Unpredictable Future
Kobayashi laboratory, koblab, pursues to revitalize and enforce communities and to create new value in the environment involved in communication-based social, cultural, and spatial design stemming from the micro-culture of an area and the traits that compose its rich sense of place in local society.
Please refer to the following site.
https://architecture.keio.ac.jp/lab/kobayashi/
"Making Your Place Where You Feel a Sense of Belonging"
Pursuing Do-It-Anyway Manner for Unpredictable Future
Kobayashi laboratory, koblab, pursues to revitalize and enforce communities and to create new value in the environment involved in communication-based social, cultural, and spatial design stemming from the micro-culture of an area and the traits that compose its rich sense of place in local society.
Please refer to the following site.
https://architecture.keio.ac.jp/lab/kobayashi/
Course Description/Objectives/Teaching Method/Intended Learning Outcome
What we are pursuing：
"Making Your Place Where You Feel a Sense of Belonging"
Pursuing Do-It-Anyway Manner for Unpredictable Future
Kobayashi laboratory, koblab, pursues to revitalize and enforce communities and to create new value in the environment involved in communication-based social, cultural, and spatial design stemming from the micro-culture of an area and the traits that compose its rich sense of place in local society.
Architectural and urban design has clear impacts on the community, so we strive to comprehend how form affects people’s lives. If communities are not well understood, formal interventions will not respond to the needs of the people and, therefore, they will not complement the area. We try to understand what notions of people and culture create an effective design methodology and what kinds of form create positive outcomes. We try to visualize the invisible character of communities and translate that character into form through our various projects.
We execute a broad range of actions that goes beyond traditional architectural design and construction to pursue design-build methods based on the tectonics of architecture and an understanding of the social role of architecture. We explore effective ways to contribute to society and create new social capital by shaping the form and plan of communities and planning for the future of their living environment.
In each action we visit the actual site at the right moment and closely observe the place and its people, accept actual problems agilely, and respond to the situation at the site by using a positive, analytical and creative design methodology. This process makes students commit to the problems of the community and embody them by themselves, which feeds them for the next challenge of solving the problems.
We keep on executing real actions in society and acting with responsibility to be able to commit to the actual problems of the society closely and realistically.
We are accepting application to join Hiroto Kobayashi Lab (koblab), for the academic year of 2025 fall semester according to the following conditions.
One must understand the stated goals of the lab and check the prerequisites necessary to be accepted in to the application process. Please bring your essay and portfolio to the interview session. Based on this process, we will evaluate in totality and decide the participating members that will collaborate throughout the year.
Please refer to the following site.
https://architecture.keio.ac.jp/lab/kobayashi/
If you’d like to join the collaboration for the activities in the fall semester 2025, please follow the instruction above.
Please send email to all of the following instructors.
Hiroto Kobayashi [hiroto@sfc.keio.ac.jp]
Toyoei Kikuchi [toyokiku@sfc.keio.ac.jp] and
Rei Terauchi [rei@studio-true.net]
Taiga Matsuoka [taiga@studio-true.net]
"Making Your Place Where You Feel a Sense of Belonging"
Pursuing Do-It-Anyway Manner for Unpredictable Future
Kobayashi laboratory, koblab, pursues to revitalize and enforce communities and to create new value in the environment involved in communication-based social, cultural, and spatial design stemming from the micro-culture of an area and the traits that compose its rich sense of place in local society.
Architectural and urban design has clear impacts on the community, so we strive to comprehend how form affects people’s lives. If communities are not well understood, formal interventions will not respond to the needs of the people and, therefore, they will not complement the area. We try to understand what notions of people and culture create an effective design methodology and what kinds of form create positive outcomes. We try to visualize the invisible character of communities and translate that character into form through our various projects.
We execute a broad range of actions that goes beyond traditional architectural design and construction to pursue design-build methods based on the tectonics of architecture and an understanding of the social role of architecture. We explore effective ways to contribute to society and create new social capital by shaping the form and plan of communities and planning for the future of their living environment.
In each action we visit the actual site at the right moment and closely observe the place and its people, accept actual problems agilely, and respond to the situation at the site by using a positive, analytical and creative design methodology. This process makes students commit to the problems of the community and embody them by themselves, which feeds them for the next challenge of solving the problems.
We keep on executing real actions in society and acting with responsibility to be able to commit to the actual problems of the society closely and realistically.
We are accepting application to join Hiroto Kobayashi Lab (koblab), for the academic year of 2025 fall semester according to the following conditions.
One must understand the stated goals of the lab and check the prerequisites necessary to be accepted in to the application process. Please bring your essay and portfolio to the interview session. Based on this process, we will evaluate in totality and decide the participating members that will collaborate throughout the year.
Please refer to the following site.
https://architecture.keio.ac.jp/lab/kobayashi/
If you’d like to join the collaboration for the activities in the fall semester 2025, please follow the instruction above.
Please send email to all of the following instructors.
Hiroto Kobayashi [hiroto@sfc.keio.ac.jp]
Toyoei Kikuchi [toyokiku@sfc.keio.ac.jp] and
Rei Terauchi [rei@studio-true.net]
Taiga Matsuoka [taiga@studio-true.net]
Research Seminar Theme
Do-It-Anyway manner is pursued
Participatory Architecture, Urban and Community Design
Participatory Architecture, Urban and Community Design
Project Theme (next semester)
Make the problems of the community your own and develop empathy which emerges by committing and working voluntarily in the making of architecture and community.
We will focus on continuous projects including disaster relief easy build architecture, urban and rural revitalization design/build actions. In addition to these, we will have a project in collaboration with the Hiromi Hosoya laboratory to explore new forms of residence for migrant construction workers in India.
We will focus on continuous projects including disaster relief easy build architecture, urban and rural revitalization design/build actions. In addition to these, we will have a project in collaboration with the Hiromi Hosoya laboratory to explore new forms of residence for migrant construction workers in India.
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Remarks
Please plan your application with the understanding that there is a time limit because the chief instructor, Hiroto Kobayashi, will retire in March 2027, two years from now.