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Event Date: July 29, 2026, 12:10 PM – 12:50 PM
Brown Bag Seminar
Q-AOS Brown Bag Seminar Series The 241st Seminar "Reconsidering “For Everyone” : Infrastructure Design with Minorities as a Base Point"
The Q-AOS Brown Bag Seminar Series will start every Wednesday at lunchtime from April 2021. The purpose of this webinar series is to provide opportunities not only to learn research related to SDGs in Asian and Oceanian regions, but also to expand your research network across different academic areas.
The webinar is free, available in English and Japanese, and open to everyone! We hope you all come and join us!
The webinar is free, available in English and Japanese, and open to everyone! We hope you all come and join us!
Details
- Date
- 2026/7/29 (Wed) 12:10－12:50
- Style
- Zoom Webinar
- Language
- Bilingual Japanese-English support (simultaneous interpretation)
- Admission Fee
- Free
- The maximum number for the webinar participants
- 500 people
- Contact
- Kyushu University Q-AOS Administrative Office
TEL: +81-92-802-2605
Mail: aoevent★jimu.kyushu-u.ac.jp
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Abstract
In this seminar, we will reconsider the way we perceive infrastructure. Rather than limiting infrastructure to a physical foundation as it has conventionally been understood, we will regard it as a public foundation that supports an inclusive society and explore what public infrastructure should be in the future.
In particular, minorities will be positioned not as groups that should be given additional consideration, but as a base point for rethinking society and space. From this perspective, we will consider the design of infrastructure in which people with different characteristics can coexist.
The speaker has organized the Rakuchin Lab at Kyushu University, which is composed of experts from multiple fields across the sciences and humanities, and has advanced the implementation of new public spaces through the use of integrated knowledge. In this process, rather than limiting discussions to experts alone, emphasis has been placed on co-creation with diverse stakeholders ̶including users directly concerned, practitioners, and researchers ̶from the generation of ideas to their implementation.
Through these practices, public spaces that are co-created with stakeholders, taking minorities as a base point, are conceptualized as “Inclusive Infrastructure.” Based on this concept, the speaker has proposed new perspectives and ways of thinking in the field of infrastructure development, including through the Japan Society of Civil Engineers.
In particular, minorities will be positioned not as groups that should be given additional consideration, but as a base point for rethinking society and space. From this perspective, we will consider the design of infrastructure in which people with different characteristics can coexist.
The speaker has organized the Rakuchin Lab at Kyushu University, which is composed of experts from multiple fields across the sciences and humanities, and has advanced the implementation of new public spaces through the use of integrated knowledge. In this process, rather than limiting discussions to experts alone, emphasis has been placed on co-creation with diverse stakeholders ̶including users directly concerned, practitioners, and researchers ̶from the generation of ideas to their implementation.
Through these practices, public spaces that are co-created with stakeholders, taking minorities as a base point, are conceptualized as “Inclusive Infrastructure.” Based on this concept, the speaker has proposed new perspectives and ways of thinking in the field of infrastructure development, including through the Japan Society of Civil Engineers.
Program
◆12:10 – 12:15 Introduction
Session Chair: Prof. Kimiyo Kikuchi (Q-AOS Director)
◆12:15 – 12:40 Seminar
・Speaker: Associate Professor Satoshi HANO (Faculty of Design Department of Design Futures)
・Title: Reconsidering “For Everyone” : Infrastructure Design with Minorities as a Base Point
・Key words: Social Inclusion, Infrastructure Design, Co-design, Convergence Knowledge, Implementation
◆12:40 – 12:50 Q&A
Session Chair: Prof. Kimiyo Kikuchi (Q-AOS Director)
◆12:15 – 12:40 Seminar
・Speaker: Associate Professor Satoshi HANO (Faculty of Design Department of Design Futures)
・Title: Reconsidering “For Everyone” : Infrastructure Design with Minorities as a Base Point
・Key words: Social Inclusion, Infrastructure Design, Co-design, Convergence Knowledge, Implementation
◆12:40 – 12:50 Q&A
Material
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