Works by Ibadai Students (English) / ART TOWER MITO

Art Tower Mito Through a 200x300-pixel Format
Design Project 2001 -- Students' Works, Ibaraki University
http://www.edu.ibaraki.ac.jp/art/design/

We are pleased to introduce projects designed by students of the Education Dept. of Ibaraki University, under the guidance of Prof. Hiroyuki Shimada. While attempting a theoretical analysis and elucidation of the information society and information culture, the students are also carrying out activities that aim to be more persuasive by grappling with specific issues.

From January to March, the top of ATM's Web page will feature a successive showing of all the students' works -- with just one hour allotted to each -- in a small, 200x300-pixel format. If you click on the images below, you will be able to see the images in their original size.

If you would like to view once again an image that particularly draws your fancy, we would ask that you click on that image in the general list. We will tabulate your requests and use the results to spur us in our next project.

Feel free to send any opinions or impressions that you have to the following e-mail address:
webstaff@arttowermito.or.jp

We are looking forward to hearing from you.

Works of 22 students:

Starting in the 1998-99 school year, the Education Dept. at Ibaraki University began offering practical courses allowing students to design their own projects. The classes are characterized by the following points:

Departing from the "basics to specialty" style of thinking in education.
Having students cooperate in teams/groups, making them work together on a common theme (or subject). Students will start projects in their first year in college.
A choice will be made from one of the following: (a) making an object, (b) gathering and processing information, ending up with the creation of an object, (c) carrying out field work.
Enlisting the help of older students -- not just teachers -- as mentors. A group of students from different grades will be treated as one unit.
Relaying or transmitting the results of the projects to society in general, thereby benefiting it.

The design projects whose images appear on ATM's home page are computer-designed works, made in a class that was set up to train students specifically in that process.

Students instructed by Hiroyuki Shimada (Assoc. Professor, Education Dept., Ibaraki University) http://www.edu.ibaraki.ac.jp/art/design/

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