The theme of the joint workshop is based around “Food/Cooking/Eating”. The aim is to investigate into the cultures, habits and rituals around these daily but essential human activities from the perspectives of art, architecture and design. Four groups of five to six students from each university researched markets, restaurants, pubs, cafes, public spaces, identified the specific topic they wanted to work on, and gave presentations on the findings from their research and discussions.

The purpose of the workshop is to investigate how urban color design influences the landscape. Groups of students from each university conducted field research into environmental colors in Tainan, drew a sample of characteristic colors, and developed their research results to consider environmental color design for district redevelopment plans.

The purpose of the project is to examine the relationships between fiction and reality in the field of imaging arts. Five to nine students from each university participated. The project consisted of three parts; In the first term, they held an exhibition in which they introduced works that served as references of the project theme. In the second term, they offered lectures and conducted research together. Lastly, in the third term, they held exhibitions in Tokyo and Nantes.

Professors from the Department of Design Informatics visited two leading design universities and conducted a workshop on the topic of “Street Stalls”. This project aims to survey and compile information on lifestyles, social structures, linguistic culture, styles in the formative arts etc. and build a database as a design education resource.