Kawai In regard to expansion, FabCafe has locations in Spain, France, Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore, and Japan (Tokyo, Hida), as well as some which cross national borders, so it would be good for us to take up challenges like this on a global scale. I think that this program will help expand their vision and outlook for the future.
Watanabe Even if they did not finishing learning how to use the simple Fusion 360, this was all the students’ first experience with teaching independently for themselves, wasn’t it? The students learned from hard experience how to express themselves and how to teach effectively. ──Please let us know what your hopes are for the future of the collaboration between Autodesk and Fabcafe From workshops taking advantage of their place in the world, new heroes are born! The result was that they each enjoyed themselves based on their own strengths. For the art department at Nihon University, it was design for Kogakuin, it was robots. Ohara The way individual idiosyncrasies were made use of at each university was very interesting. It has been difficult for teachers to reach the point of “remember and teach.” For this reason, we felt that it would be good to create a student leadership movement, so that using the tools would become easier in the future. Based on the cases in which the students provide trial guidance and recommendations, we expect the teachers to have opportunities to experience it as well.įujimura Fusion 360 was released four years ago, but we only began offering a Japanese-language version of it one year ago. Kawai Actually, the CAD tools that teachers use are linked to the curriculum, with the teachers developing a partner relationship with our company, so they don’t change very much. A workshop mainly led by students, increasing opportunities to experience tools This is based on hindsight, but holding workshops at each college one after the other created competition, and I think this lit a fire in the students’ hearts. We made use of the rendering function, which is a strength of Fusion 360, creating a plan to attract people with an interest in graphics, and when we saw the reactions of the participants we felt it was a major success.Īfter that, student mentoring and scheduling were led primarily by Ohara’s team. Watanabe We were surprised by our latest plan, “Design a Postcard!”It was a bold idea to make the output from the 3D tools two-dimensional (laughter). By very attentively teaching them with workshops and project planning, we knew we could make our philosophy clear and change their situation.
Tetsuya Ohara (FabCafe MTRL) We wanted to freely make use of the strengths of the space and the community that were provided this time and bring in as many of the students’ ideas and expressions as possible.