Real Projects: The Source of KMD-led Innovations

Since its founding in 2008, KMD has placed Real Projects at the core of its activities and curriculum. All Master’s Program students participate under the direction of full-time faculty to create innovations that tap into cutting-edge technologies and social trends.

Students use the results of their Real Projects to write their Master's theses. KMD does not consider actual practice to be different from academic and theoretical exploration. Real Projects are not only a field to gain practice in the creation of social impact, they are also a frontline of creative research.

Most of our current Real Projects are collaborations between KMD and outside institutions in industry and government. Projects done in collaboration with companies, in particular, are not merely sponsorships, but opportunities to tackle the challenges that the companies face or anticipate they will face in the future. We begin by formulating plans and conducting studies, producing prototypes iteratively until we arrive at a final, concrete result.

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Concordia
Explore the future of communication.
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Creative Industry
Designing New Industries for an Era of Change
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CREATO!
Let “Network” become a natural extension of the “Real World”
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Embodied Media
Prototyping the future by integrating our sensibility and innovative technologies
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Future Crafts
Creating the future integrating the physical and digital with a craftsman's eye.
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Global Education
Building global connections and sharing ideas across borders
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Geist
Amplify the Sense of Wonder
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Itoma
Service Design to sketch between the lines
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Network Media
Connect Everything
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PLAY: Entertainment Media Design
Colors Everyday Scenes Filled with Playfulness
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Policy Project
Leverage design, technology, and management capacities to formulate policies
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SAMCARA
design to evolve
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Project Stories

Everyone’s Mindscapes
The exhibit aimed to create a society in which anyone can express their skills and abilities based on the idea that all people are diverse due to neurological differences.
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The Yabu Model
This project aims to bridge many gaps between city and countryside, children, parents, and grandparents, or children who attend school and those who cannot.
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Cybernetic Avatar Technology and Social System Design
This project aims to enable new ways of living and working and to explore the possibility of creating infrastructures.
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Yambaru Pineapple hills Aha Roadside Station
To reinvigorate the local community, we interweave primary industries such as agriculture with retail and service industries.
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Development of Fashion-specialized IoT Nodes
This project aims for "a future where ordinary people and fashion designers can create functional clothing more easily".
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New Mobility Services for Shopping Mall in Community
This project focuses on "service design to contribute to the happiness of those in our immediate sphere".
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Boiling Mind
Data on heart rates and perspiration of the audience is converted to a visual format and projected on the stage.
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Classroom of the Future
The concept of this classroom is "biophilia," the innate human tendency to seek connections with nature and other forms of life.
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Super Welfare Expo
The “Super Welfare Expo” has been held each year since 2014 to encourage the banishment of “mental barriers” .
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RAIKI
The “RAIKI” project focuses on the phenomenon of triboelectric charging, the electricity generated on the leaves of plants for use in cities and remote areas.
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Joint Creation of Superhuman Sports
Superhuman sports have undergone major developments even in the short time since the KMD Forum in 2014.
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Infrastructure for Collaboration and Experience Sharing (ICES)
"ICES" is a project to examine the fusion of the real world and the virtual world.
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Evolution of Telexistence Industry
In 2017, a startup company that will shoulder the future took its first tentative steps from KMD.
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Agbee
“Agbee” is a moving cart and related application service that was developed based on the concept of a “partner robot for farmers".
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Global Workshop
As globalization accelerates, it is becoming imperative to foster a global mindset for the future workforce in Japan from the stage of secondary education.
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Synesthesia Suit
Project Professor Tetsuya Mizuguchi + Rhizomatiks + KMD “Synesthesia Suit
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Future Project
A team led by Professor Hiroyuki Kishi is collaborating with the city of Sabae, Fukui on the “Traditional Crafts’ Future Project.
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Information Bank
Today, our Internet activity including our searches and purchases is readily exchanged and accumulated by both vendor sites and SNS services.
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Projection Door
The “Projection Doors” Project is a collaboration project with automatic door manufacturer Nabtesco.
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Interactive Museum
KMD Associate Professor Kouta Minamizawa led a team of students working on “the creation of novel viewing experience at
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Social Things
Led by Professor Masa Inakage, five faculty members and six students began work on the “Social Things” project with Ericsson in 2013
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Takeshiba Project
A team led by Professor Ichiya Nakamura is working on the “Takeshiba Project” with Tokyu Land and Kajima Corporation.
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