究極の美大‡創造学園part4

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Music and SocialWork...

Bruno Taut in Takasaki
continuation;
He designed and directed
the production of a num-
ber of industrial art
works at Takasaki Kogeisho
Industrial Arts Center.
In his books he introduced
to the world the beauty of
traditional japanese archi-
tecture such as the Katsura
Detached Palace.

University of Creation,Art,
Music and SocialWork...

Bruno Taut Memorial Hall

For a long time,the Iwanami
Shoten publishing house,
which has greatly influenced
both the academic and cultural
circles of Japan,continued to
keep and publish a number of
precious documents dealing with
Taut and his works...

University of Creation,Art,
Music and SocialWork...

Bruno Taut Memorial Hall

Iwanami Shoten believing
in the potential of our
college provided us gene-
rous support and entrusted
these valuable documents to
the safekeeping of University
of Creation,Art,Music and So-
cialWork...

University of Creation,Art,
Music and SocialWork...

Bruno Taut Studies

We aim to contribute to
our local society by
properly maintaining and
exhibiting these precious
cultural assets.
We are also determined to
support further research
on Taut's life and works
with curators assigned to
the Bruno Taut Research
Group...

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Music and SocialWork...

INTERNET MEDIA LABORATORY

On 4th floor of the Bruno
Taut Memorial Hall,profe-
ssor Edmond Mauzer and
associate professor Naoki
Kimino created the Internet
Media Laboratory.Our main
resources are ourselves,
modern hardware and a small
reference book library...

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Music and SocialWork...

eLearning

Currently testing and
publicising internally
a course management
system based on Moodle.

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Music and SocialWork...

Portal Site

The portal site provides
role based access to in-
ternal information resour-
ces and tools like surveys,
blogs,forums,event photo
gallery,and knowledge base
about the university infor-
mation services.It is part
of the larger intercampus
information system also acce-
ssible from Japanese mobile
phones and LCD terminals.....

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Music and SocialWork...

SOUZOU-NET

High-performance IP
videophone system
using Ginganet-Denwa
Warpgates,improved
with remote-controlled
cameras and projectors.
Souzou-net connects 14
classrooms of the Naka-
yama and Yachiyo Campuses,
as well as the Tokyo office
and the Attached High School.
This system is currently used
in classroom teaching since
April 2005.

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Music and SocialWork...

Video Streaming

Following a series of
studies and experiments
with our servers loca-
ted in Japan and in the
Silicon Valley,we started
an internet TV venture in-
tegrated into the univer-
sity's vision of Interna-
tional-Environment-Welfare
& Sosai,as a new type of en-
vironment-welfare activity.

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Music and SocialWork...

Video Streaming
continuation;
This project is
called Creation TV
and anybody with a
broadband connection
is welcome to enjoy
it and participate.
We are planning to
extend our streams to
internet-enabled mo-
bile phones,widespread
in Japan...

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Music and SocialWork...

Bruno Taut Database

We are digitizing with high
resolution scanners and di-
gital cameras original works
of Bruno Taut and other re-
lated documents.These are en-
tried with complete descrip-
tions in a database searchable
at the Taut Memorial Hall.

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Music and SocialWork...

WEB PAGE RENEWAL

We built the first English
site of the University of
Creation,Art,Music & Social
Work,we rebuilt from scratch
the Japanese page and we are
maintaining them...

University of Creation,Art,
Music and SocialWork...

IMPROVING THE IT
ENVIRONMENT

Various activities
ranging from estab-
lishing IT policies
to setting up new
networks and IT la-
boratories.

University of Creation,Art,
Music and SocialWork...

About our University

Our university has its
two departments the
Creative Arts Depart-
ment;The Music Course
and The Art Course...
The other one is the
SocialWork Department
which have a SocialWork
Course...

University of Creation,Art,
Music and SocialWork...

CAMPUSES

NAKAYAMA CAMPUS
The Creative Arts Department
and several unique facilities
are located in this comprehen-
sive art space.In the Suikin
Concert Hall,which combines the
best of Japanese and Western
techniques,the monthly Horikoshi
Gakuen Concerts are held,as well
as the regular Monday and Wednes-
day concerts.

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Music and SocialWork...

NAKAYAMA CAMPUS
continuation;
The Suikin-tei garden is
nationally registered as
"Tangible Cultural Pro-
perty"and the Suikin-kut-
su(water koto tavern)is
one of the "100 Most Att-
ractive Scenic Locations
for Sounds in Japan".The
Sanpuku-an museum hosts
the monthly exhibits of
the art course students
and if you visit the Ethnic
Instruments Museum,you can
find a fine collection of
Musical instruments from
the Far East....

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Music and SocialWork...

The Verde convenience store
and the student cafeteria
are located near the campus
entrance and there are regular
school buses connecting the
campus with the Takasaki Station.

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Music and Socialwork...

Yachiyo Campus
Headqurter of the SocialWork
Department.The TESLA building
located here is a clean energy
pavilion which utilizes Japan's
first solar light generator
system.A large volume of hot
spring

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Music and SocialWork...

Yachiyo Campus
continuation;
A large volume of hot spring
water also gushes up from
the Sanpuku-an spring on the
TESLA grounds,so faculty and
students can enjoy at no charge
the hot spring bath on the 4th
floor.The Bruno Taut Memorial
Hall Exhibits original works
of the German Expressionist
architect Bruno Taut as well as
a number of precious documents
dealing with Taut,entrusted to
the safekeeping of University
of Creation,Art,Music and Social
Work by the Iwanami Shoten pub-
lishing house.