SATO Shuya, DOI Akiho, and TOMOSADA Mayu, fourth-year undergraduate students, received the Tajima Incentive Award at the Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ) Design Competition in 2024. The theme of the competition was “Reconstruction of the Commons: Self-Transformation through Architecture and Landscape.”
Prize: Tajima Incentive Award and the Honorable Mention Award (the Shikoku Chapter of AIJ )
Title of their work: “Funeral on Okamura Island”
Dr. Dahniar, who completed her PhD at Hiroshima University in the summer of 2020, came to Japan for the first time in four years and visited Hiroshima University. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Architecture at Hasanuddin University (Makassar, Sulawesi) in the Republic of Indonesia.
Dr. Dahniar came to Japan to exchange views and opinions on educational and academic collaboration between Hasanuddin University and Hiroshima University in architecture. In response to the six-member delegation’s visit, the Hiroshima University Architecture Group held a meeting and showed them our facilities.
I believe that there is much to learn from Southeast Asian countries and regions in improving Japanese architecture, so I hope to promote research collaborations and student exchange gradually.
Dr. Dahniar belonged to our laboratory, so she visited our laboratory room for the first time in a long time as part of the facility tour after the conference.
SUMIKURA is an advisor of the “Koumuten Job!”. The group held the event for students, which aimed to have relationship with them who were interested in komutens. The article of the event was featured in an industry-wide newspaper.
We gave the special lectures for elementary school students collaborating with three koumutens in Hiroshima. The article on the lecture was featured in a magazine.
“Koumuten Job!”, a voluntary organization, held an online event to promote communication between students and 6 koumutens, local builders, on 13th March 2024.