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Professor, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
Department of Inter Media Art
Academyhills will bring great change to Tokyo's cultural scene, and make the city a place for the practice of knowledge and art. From the Museon, a universal cultural facility in ancient Alexandria, to the Mundaneum, a facility for the consolidation of knowledge conceived in the 20th century, the centers of urban cultural activity have been epoch-making institutions of knowledge and learning; Academyhills will be Tokyo's for the 21st century. |
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Professor, University of Tokyo Faculty of Economics
Both inside and outside Japan, we are in the midst of a period of great economic change. It is of course difficult to predict the course of such great change, but at the same time it is essential to try. In order to succeed, one must not limit oneself to the written word, but must listen to and discuss events and ideas with people from many different fields. We hope that Academyhills will become a place where the younger generation, which will be the foundation of the next age, can gather periodically for just such active discussions and in-depth analysis. |
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Professor, University of Tokyo
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology
Cities evolve as cultural vessels, but history also gives witness that some things remain unchanged. City planning can be described as an act intended to separate the changing elements in a city from the unchanging.
In the cities of Japan, where East and West intermingle, the issue of what should evolve and what should remain immutable presents
us with a rich intellectual vein. |
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President, Kengo Kuma & Associates / Professor at Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University
Architecture and cities are approaching a turning point. To put it simply: if one focuses only on architecture, one cannot resolve architectural problems. Knowledge must be synthesized from a wide range of fields, such as information technology, art, sociology, and landscaping, as well as from across geographical borders, in order to find solutions to all the issues that arise. Academy hills acts as a laboratory for just such a borderless accumulation of knowledge. |
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Professor, Keio University Faculty of Policy Management
Academyhills was created to see what kind of place for the production of knowledge could be produced by combining a physical space and a network space. Classrooms, equipped with cutting edge technology, connected to the world, where all kinds of knowledge and intelligence meet and interact. Rather than passively learning, by participating in the circle one can witness the creation of new value. Fantastic. |
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Professor, University of Tokyo
Graduate School of Frontier Sciences
Existing value systems are being reevaluated. It is not merely a matter of tuning in to new information-we must have a network of truely,meaningful communication. Academyhills will not be just a place to glean the latest knowledge, but a fresh node on this human network. |
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Professor, Graduate School of information Science and Technology,
The University of Tokyo
As we enter the 21st century, the focus of science and technology is undergoing rapid change. This is because advances in science are naturally related closely to society, and new paradigms become necessary as society evolves. In order to fully understand this situation, it is essential to bring together a broad range of knowledge. At Academy hills, we hope to debate what the form of this new knowledge should be. |
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Professor, Keio University
Faculty of Environmental Information
Freely connecting knowledge with knowledge. A global exchange of information and intelligence. The environment of the Internet, made possible by digital technology and digital communications, is bringing us towards a world of unlimited human creativity. We hope that, as a source for human creativity, Academyhills will leave a legacy of wisdom created for the 21st century. |
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