2011/6/20

1. FABRICA Team

- We will be meeting people at FABRICA via Skype

- We have heard some ideas that people at FABRICA came up with:

- 1
Taking portrait of families at the disaster-struck area. Making new memories for their new life. Designing their restart.

- 2
Tourism problems. In Hong Kong, they do not report what is happening in Japan any more, so people are avoiding their tours to Japan, thinking media is hiding bad news of Japan. We can change the image of Japan by designing new tours.

- 3　
Making evacuation center and temporary housing more like "home". In order to do this, we need to know numbers of evacuation centre and temporary housing, how many people are living there, and what problems they have. Also, total population of Tohoku, numbers of victims and unknowns, and numbers of people affected by the earthquake and tsunami disaster. We have to research these information for people at FABRICA.

- 4
What can we do for children? Can we solve the problem, which children evacuated from areas near the nuclear power station are discriminated at their new school, using design?

- 5

"Brain drainage" problem. There is an apprehension that young people and talented ones are leaving disaster-struck area. As a result, there will be only elderly people left, which will result in risk of the town being neglected and the town might not be able to reconstruct once again. To prevent this from happening, we should think of ways to level up high school students and college students, while keeping them stayed at their town.

There are about 5 colleges that teach design and engineering.

- 6
Designing fun ways to donate and fund-raise.

With these ideas accomplished, we will translate it to Japanese, present in upcoming AXIS exhibition, and think about possibilities of carrying it out on next semester.

2. Collaboration with Digital Hollywood University

They are excel in PVs, films and CGs. We might ask them to make clips for us, according to themes that we give. We also might ask for some help when making music video next semester.

Their school is located at Akihabara. There are no walls in the building, which allow students and people from outside the school to communicate freely.

* July 12nd is the due date for applying AXIS exhibition. The result will be shown on July 20th. We will be carrying-in on August 23rd, setup on 24th, and the exhibition will open on 25th.

* We will be presenting at Pecha Kucha on July 27th.

* We need people in charge of recording. Ex. Filiming at Pecha Kucha, recording our exhibitions, etc.

3. Structure of our website, categories, case studies, etc.

-We should decide on specific items for case studies. Even small details need to be discussed.

-Discuss in details about ideas:

- I will be your sponsor! (temporary title):

Target: Companies, local communities

Model: Index

- Let's make it with me! (temporary title):

Target: Creators

Model: Blog,recip

We will ask for the writer to put some keywords with their articles so it will be easy to search through the articles using tags. (Ex. YouTube) We will show the date of entry and the due date.

* Problems:

-Can this really work?

Will the users be putting on their photos for the "Let's make it with me!" part?

With the format we have right now, it is unclear and users cannot post their articles.

The format we have seems like project proposal, the users might not want to do this for free.

- We have to make a research about how clear the ideas of the creators are and how long they are willing to write.

- We see things in the eyes of viewers, but what we have to do is to see things in the eyes of users (writers).

- Concept has to be thought more objectively. We should try making a sample.

- We might need a system to make users happy that they posted, like they will be receiving many comments, etc.

-With Mr. Hurukata (Teaches programming at our univ.):

We will explain him what kind of system comes in where, what kind of functions come in where, where the buttons will be, etc. and make a prototype using Adobe Illustrator, also showing actual moves. We have to design and organize everything beforehand so that all we ask for him to do will be just some simple programming.

We made our first explanation to him today, but he told us that we still have a lot to go on and told us about the problems written above.

-With Jonathan and Mr. Isawa (Both graphic designers working in California):

We have done our first meeting via Skype video chat. After introducing ourselves, we also explained them our project, specifically the website part. However, we could not explain the idea part very well, it made us realize that it is not as organized as we thought it to be.

*About the video: we will be focusing on just one video and will be keep on revising.