Special Workshop:The 48 Hour Marathon for Universal Design in Fukuoka
Special Workshop:The 48 Hour Marathon for Universal Design in Fukuoka
This event is based on workshop activities that IAUD started in 2004 and the user participation workshop "The 48 Hour Design Marathon" held in 2006, 2007, 2009 February also December and 2011.
In addition, the 48 hour design workshop is held inviting not only IAUD members and member companies' designers as main participants but people with marketing experiences and engineers, and also participants from overseas.
Through the workshop, it is our intention to promote social cognition for universal design activities and to find future leaders and develop human resources.
Outline of activities
IAUD members and participants invited from Japan and other countries are divided into 6 teams under 6 predetermined team leaders. Each team creates a competitive design within the time limit (48 hours) based on the theme provided on the first day of the workshop.
The first half of the 48 hours are mainly used to visit the actual living environment with users and identify various problems.
The latter half is mainly used to generalize the design and to create materials for a presentation.
The public presentation is given live for all visitors and mass media who agree with the purpose of this workshop, and the excellent creations are rewarded through a public review by participants in the workshop.
Implementation Plan (48hdm_plan_en.pdf 214KB)
http://www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/english/
To access guide
IAUD official page