What is the Social Value
Co-Creation Forum
(Enyu Forum)?
Co-Creation Forum
(Enyu Forum)?
New ideas and ways of thinking are essential for solving social issues—but they will never come to be if we restrict ourselves to only traditional frameworks and ways of looking at the world.
To remedy this, we have created a forum where people with diverse values and perspectives come together from different fields to engage in discussion,combining intelligence and sensibility to drive creativity and imagination and to solve unsolvable problems.This Social Value Co-Creation Forum (Enyu Forum),which consists of sessions for both discussion and learning, brings together people from not only the corporate sector, but also from wide-ranging academic fields—from science and technology to the arts and philosophy.
The IAAG*1 Enyu Roundtable is a place for discussion, where leading experts (Trailblazers) in various fields come together to examine social issues from various perspectives and engage in ongoing discussion aimed at finding solutions.
The Youth Koyasan Conference is a place for learning through academic seminars where various Trailblazers share their perspectives on society,hands-on opportunities to experience and learn about the arts, and events such as discussion sessions that bring together both academic and artistic perspectives. Sessions of this conference are held periodically as part of a year-long program.
The Koyasan Enyu Forum is also held once
or twice a year on Mt. Koya, where all participants, including youth
participants, engage in cross-disciplinary, cross-generational
discussion and learning opportunities.
*1 IAAG:
Industry-Art-Academia-Government
The Social Value Co-Creation Forum (Enyu Forum) is co-hosted with the University of Tokyo’s Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), which is engaged in integrated, cutting-edge research that transcends the boundaries of the humanities, sciences, and arts.
Overview of the Enyu Forum
Generating innovation
through discussion and
learning
While innovation based on technology and research results is important, such innovation cannot lead to the creation of value without first identifying the fundamental issues facing society. While conventional ways of thinking make it difficult even to identify the issues we should be working to solve, the Social Value Co-Creation Forum seeks to resolve this by building an environment to generate innovation according to the following approach.
IAAG Enyu Roundtable
This series of roundtable-style conversations brings together Trailblazers from a wide variety of fields for cross-disciplinary discussions on social conflict and a wide variety of other topics. By examining issues from muti-layered perspectives, we consider how we can make the world a brighter, more bountiful place, and the kind of future we want to build.
You can view videos of past roundtables on the RCAST YouTube channel (in Japanese).
Youth Koyasan Conference
The Youth Koyasan Conference puts STEAM education into practice, giving youth participants the opportunity not only to learn, but to experience communication across the borders of generation, field of study, specialty, and more to foster next-gen talent with the ability to think for themselves, discipline themselves, and contribute to the growth of others while growing themselves. By bringing together intelligence (the power to think) and sensibility (the power to feel), we develop talent with the high-level perspectives needed to build a better future.
The Youth Koyasan Conference consists of multiple sessions across three categories: seminars (Academic), the arts (Art), and discussions and interactive sessions that combine both (Harmony).
Lotus-model STEAM education
Through an original “lotus-model” STEAM education program*, we seek to develop the qualities needed to identify and solve various social problems and to create new social value.
*A program where participants learn across the five broad disciplines of Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics to not only gain intelligence but also foster creativity and problem solving.
Youth Koyasan Conference Program
Academic
Trailblazers from various industries provide lecture-style seminars on their field of expertise and related perspectives on society.
Yoshiharu Doi
Cooking researcher; Senior Visiting Researcher, RCAST, the University of Tokyo
Advocate of ichiju-issai (“one soup, one dish”) as an aesthetic of Japanese home cooking
Yu Koizumi
Associate Professor, RCAST, the University of Tokyo
Specialist in the military and security policy of Russia and the former Soviet states
Masahiko Inami
Special Assistant to the President, the University of Tokyo; Deputy Director and Professor, RCAST
Researches Jizai body technology, human augmentation engineering, and entertainment engineering
Shin-ichiro Kumagaya
Professor, RCAST, the University of Tokyo
Specialist in pediatrics and Tojisha-Kenkyu (self-directed inquiry by those with lived experience);
conducts his research while living with cerebral palsy
In no particular order….and others.
Art
Experiences with the arts help youth participants to develop their sensibility. These sessions involve not only watching or listening, but also opportunities to communicate with artists and create works of art. This allows participants to experience firsthand the way that art can move us.
Kaoru Kondo
Professor, RCAST, the University of Tokyo (Advanced Art and Design)
Concertmaster, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
Teruhiko Komori
Visiting Professor, RCAST, the University of Tokyo
Baritone; the first Japanese singer to be awarded the German title of Kammersänger
Yui Yonezawa
Principal, New National Theatre Ballet, Tokyo
One of Japan’s foremost ballerinas, a finalist at the Prix de Lausanne
Tatsunori Kongo
Noh actor
Young head of the distinguished Kongo school of Noh; carries forward a tradition of more than 600
years while bringing
the appeal of Noh to audiences today
In no particular order….and others.
Harmony
By combining the intelligence and sensibility they’ve refined through the sessions above, all youth participants come together for discussions and creative experiences.
Improvisation
Cultivating spontaneity and flexible thinking through communication with the body.
Roundtable & Dialogue
Reflecting on universal questions such as “Why do people wage war?” and “What is art?”
Presentation of Outcomes
Sharing the insights and ideas that emerge from learning and dialogue with a wider audience.
（in Japanese).
