"Environmental Design" as an Ideal Design Methodology of the Japanese Model : New Positioning of Environmental Design Education in Universities of Japan
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This study investigates abstracts concerning "environmental design departments", many of which have been established in Japanese universities recently, and gives a new positioning to its significance. The investigations were mainly through Internet references, accessing the URL of each university to ascertain its purpose and goals in setting up these departments, as well as their curriculums. First I selected 43 universities that have department names that include the word "design", and examined what kind of department was established in what kind of faculty. Next, I reduced the number to 19 universities that have the phrase "environmental design department" or similar in a department name, and examined their establishment purpose and curriculums. With that in mind, I classified each department according to their affiliation, such as humanities or science, collected key words from the establishment purposes of each department, and then examined the contents of the departments. From the result, it was clear that there was a distinct difference between the various departmental affiliations. Furthermore, after comparing all 19 universities, I was able to ascertain that they all shared certain similarities in departments that had the name "environmental design". There are many departments that included previously unseen specialist areas such as landscapes, cities, and architecture, and fuse these normally disparate subjects into one: environmental design. As an example, I have found several departmental structures that cross over the old boundaries of, say, engineering and social science, as well as their emergence in areas that previously would have no connection to the subject, which shows a new direction that is no bound by previous ideology. Moreover, from the way that these new design departments act as a starting point to question the older ideas of strictly delineated and separate fields of study, I believe that "environmental design" has the ability to evolve into an area that could be described as "ideal Japanese design".
- 2004-03-31
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