We will welcome Mr. Takahiro Iijima, a San Francisco Bay Area product designer, for an idea generation workshop. Since the facilitator lives overseas, the instructor has been conducting the workshop online, but this time, the timing of the workshop coincided with Mr. Iijima’s visit to Japan, so we are having this workshop fully in-person.
The workshop theme is “New Combination,” in which participants will consider what kind of business development would be possible if an existing well-known company were to expand into a new field.
This workshop is designed to allow participants to enjoy expanding their ideas while getting feedback from Iijima-san from a product designer’s point of view during the workshop.
Date and Venue
| Date | Sunday, July 14, 10:00-13:00 |
| Venue | J3 building, 309B, Suzukakedai campus (Map: next to Room 308 in the map) |
| Language | English and Japanese |
| Eligibility | All Tokyo Tech students |
Guest facilitator
Takahiro Iijima
After working as an industrial designer and director at Panasonic, he moved to Silicon Valley in 2014 as the director of the US design base. He then went independent and started Persistence of Vision Inc. Currently, as Chief Design Officer, he is responsible for future concepts in the fields of robotics, AI, and IoT. His unique approach has attracted much attention from the industry.
Agenda
Agenda
- Lecture
- Introduction – Design Thinking
- Silicon Valley’s Now!
- Workshop – If we were “that company”, we could do this in “that field”
Example of students’ ideas
