2014 Science Visualization Assignments

On Friday, Sept. 26, a presentation and evaluation session for the Science Visualization Assignments was carried out. The expressive illustrations by the art students and the progress in artistic representation made by the science students were all amazing. Sayoko Tanaka Sensei evaluated the works from a visual design perspective and the instructors, who had assigned the themes, from a scientific standpoint. While there were some harsh comments, some received high praises with the instructors remarking that they would like to use some of the pieces for their academic conference presentations. It turned out to be a very animated and lively class.
The photographs of the works are Mito Kuragano’s (3rd Year at School of Art & Design) “The Mechanism of How An Earthquake Occurs: Elastic Rebound Theory” (one image), and Chizuru Kanda’s (3rd Year at School of Art & Design) “An Illustration Summarizing the Fundamentals of Radiation” (2 images). Though the themes are not something that the art students are used to portraying, both works are easy to understand and well thought out. There were many other wonderful works, which will be introduced at another occasion. (Takasaki)

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Open Class: Science Visualization Assignments

The presentation and evaluation session for the Science Visualization Assignments that was mentioned the other day will be carried out in the form of an open class. It is a very interesting class that tries to visually convey scientific themes in a simple and friendly way. Please come and attend. The photographs here are scenes from last year’s class. (Takasaki) 


Science Visualization Assignments: Presentation & Evaluation Session
Date & Time: Friday, Sept. 26, 14:00 to 17:00
 Classroom: 5C513
*Each student will be given 4 minutes for the presentation and evaluation by the instructor in charge.
【Instructors】
Sayoko Tanaka (School of Art and Design), Matt Wood (Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences), Makoto Kobayashi (School of Medicine and Medical Sciences), Koji Nomura (Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences), Yoshihiro Miwa (School of Medicine and Medical Sciences), Yuji Yagi (Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences), Hiroshi Wada (Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences), Masataka Watanabe (Tsukuba Communications, Science Communication)

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Science Visualization Assignments

On Aug. 28 and 29, Science Visualization Assignments carried out an intensive lecture course.  The objective of the course is to learn to visually and effectively illustrate scientific themes.  This year, a total of 36 students attended: 20 students from the School of Art and Design, and 16 students from the sciences, including the School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, College of Biological Science, College of Geoscience and College of Chemistry.  The students split up into 6 teams and, using graphic software and with support from specialists of the fields who offered the students their professional knowledge, began to work on illustrating themes such as “The earth’s evolution” and “The mechanism of how an earthquake occurs”.  The arts and design students had to grapple with understanding scientific systems, while the science students had to tackle with the drawing of the images, which they are not used to.  But the two groups are cooperating to wrap up their assignments.  After a check midway through the project, a presentation and evaluation session will be held on the afternoon of Sept 26.  The results will be introduced then.  (Takasaki)

【Instructors】
Sayoko Tanaka (School of Art and Design), Matt Wood (Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences), Makoto Kobayashi (School of Medicine and Medical Sciences), Koji Nomura (Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences),  Yoshihiro Miwa (School of Medicine and Medical Sciences), Yuji Yagi (Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences), Hiroshi Wada (Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences), Masataka Watanabe (Tsukuba Communications, Science Communication)

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Notice about ”Creative Reconstruction Program” Orientation Session

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An overall orientation session for the “Creative Reconstruction Program” will be carried out. Those of you who are thinking of taking the following classes, or are interested in the Creative Reconstruction Program, please come and attend. We will give you a summary of the “Creative Reconstruction Program” classes as well as about last year’s activities and about new projects that will begin this year. (Akagi)
Date & Time: Apr. 10 (Thursday), 18:15 – 19:15

Place: 5C216

List of Classes for “Creative Reconstruction Program”

Creative Reconstruction Special Assignments I (01EB081)
Creative Reconstruction Off-Campus Special Assignment I (01EB082)

Creative Reconstruction Special Course on Art Theory (01EB083)


Creative Reconstruction: Psychological Support After Crisis (Y505101・HB21131)

Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation I (Y505201・AC42161・AC63541)
Creative Reconstruction: Catastrophe & Art(Y505401)

Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation Assignments (Y635102・AC42182・AC63562・FH53072)

Creative Reconstruction: Off-Campus Challenge Assignments (Y635202)

Creative Reconstruction: Science Visualization Assignments (Y635302)
Creative Reconstruction: Hybrid Art Assignments (Y635402)
Creative Reconstruction: Problem Finding/Solving Exercises (Y635502)

Creative Reconstruction: Off-Campus Challenge Special Assignments (Y635602)

Scientific Visualization Assignments 2013

The classes were carried out on Aug. 22 (Thursday), 23rd (Friday) and Sept. 25 (Wednesday) as a 3-day intensive course. The instructors were the following seven: Koji Nomura Sensei, Yuji Yagi Sensei and Hiroshi Wada Sensei from the School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Makoto Kobayashi Sensei and Yoshihiro Miwa Sensei from the School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Masataka Watanabe Sensei from the Office of Public Relations Science Communicator, Sayoko Tanaka Sensei from the School of Art and Design. About 20 students from the School of Art and Design, as well as from the School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, the College of Geosciences and College of Physics took part.
Both the art and science students formed groups under each science instructor, and undertook the themes, “Expository Illustration” and “Art-Oriented Illustration”. This year, we briefly took on the topic of science writing as well. After group discussions based on each student’s draft of ideas, illustrations using Adobe Illustrator were created. At the end, each group gave a presentation. The objective of this class was to effectively visualize science, by having the art students collaborate with students from other fields.
The idea of the exercise was for the art students to acquire practical communication skills to comprehend the subject of the visual design and to apply the themes and views of science to their artworks, and for the students who are studying science to expand their knowledge and experience in visual expression techniques and acquire the communication skills required to collaborate with illustrators and designers in the future. (Tanaka)

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Exercise Theme: From the onset of the earthquake to actually feeling the tremor. (Illustration with emphasis on explanation.)
Exercise Creator: Yuji Yagi. Illustration Creator: Emi Kobori (4th Year at School of Life and Environmental Sciences, College of Geosciences)

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Exercise Theme: The biology of ‘the smaller the ice the faster it will melt’. (Illustration with emphasis on explanation.)
Exercise Creator: Hiroshi Wada. Illustration Creator: Junko Takanaka (3rd Year at School of Art and Design)

Creative Reconstruction: Exhibit of Science Visualization Exercise Works

We are holding an exhibit of works created for science visualization exercises. These classes have been taken by art students as well as students studying science. By making use of their individual strengths, the students were able to effectively convey complicated scientific terminology through illustrations. We hope you will all come to check it out. (Akagi/Hashimoto)
“Creative Reconstruction: Exhibit of Science Visualization Exercise Works” February 12 (Tues) to March 8 (Fri), 2013 University of Tsukuba Central Library, 2nd floor presentation area

Creative Reconstruction: Exhibit of Science Visualization Exercise Works

We have begun an exhibition of the illustrations made by students for a science visualization exercise, to bring scientific topics such as the mechanisms of earthquakes to life with visual images. We hope you will come and check them out. (Kataoka)
“Creative Reconstruction: Exhibit of Science Visualization Exercise Works” February 12 (Tues) to March 8 (Fri) 2013 University of Tsukuba Central Library, 2nd floor presentation area




Science Visualization exposure & announcement meeting

The exposure and announcement meeting of the Science Visualization (a component of the Creative Reconstruction Project) will be held.
Among other activities, we will present illustrations that aim to demonstrate the mechanisms of an earthquake in an easy to understand way.

November 9, 2012 (Friday) 15:15 ~ 16:30
November 16, 2012 (Friday) 15:15 ~ 16:30

Location: Tsukuba University, 5C513


Scientific Visualization: Website Launch !

In preparation for the lecture series that will commence at the start of the second semester, we are proud to launch a special website dedicated to the Scientific Visualization forum. Professors from a variety of fields will direct these upcoming workshops.

We encourage all participants of the class to explore the website. Here you can find links to each professors’ homepage as well as important course information (schedule changes, etc).

http://www.geijutsu.tsukuba.ac.jp/~satanaka/sv/

予告 創造的復興プロジェクト説明会開催!!

夏期休業期間中に行う集中授業について説明を行います。

・創造的復興:視点構築演習
       (Y635102・FH53072)
・創造的復興:チャレンジ学外演習
       (Y635202・FH53082)
・創造的復興:ハイブリッドアート演習
       (Y635402・GB00302・GC34402)
上記の授業を履修するものは必ず参加してください。

日時:6月21日(木)18:15〜19:30
場所:5C 216教室