{"id":174931,"date":"2023-03-29T09:21:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T19:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=174931"},"modified":"2023-03-29T09:21:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T19:21:08","slug":"architecture-exchange-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/03\/29\/architecture-exchange-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Architecture exchange shares culture, design with students from Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/manoa-architecture-japan-design-exchange-3.jpg\" alt=\"students discussing architecture designs\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-174941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/manoa-architecture-japan-design-exchange-3.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/manoa-architecture-japan-design-exchange-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/manoa-architecture-japan-design-exchange-3-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In an opportunity to discover architecture from a new perspective, five students and one faculty from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nagaoka-id.ac.jp\/en\/\">Nagaoka Institute of Design<\/a> (<abbr>NID<\/abbr>) in Japan visited the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arch.hawaii.edu\/\">School of Architecture<\/a> as part of an international design exchange program from March 20&#8211;25.<\/p>\n<p>The design exchange began with a careful analysis of sites on <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> by <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa students, who selected <span aria-label=\"Heeia\">He&#699;eia<\/span> State Park, the <span aria-label=\"Lanai\">L&#257;na&#699;i<\/span> Lookout and Diamond Head State Monument as potential sites with cultural significance and layered histories as locations for peace memorials.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/manoa-architecture-japan-design-exchange-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"students discussing architecture designs\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-174938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/manoa-architecture-japan-design-exchange-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/manoa-architecture-japan-design-exchange-2-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/manoa-architecture-japan-design-exchange-2.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Related <em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/03\/07\/japan-architecture-exchange\/\">Student travel to Japan enriches architecture exchange<\/a>, March 7, 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After visiting the sites with <abbr>NID<\/abbr> students, and two intensive days of design workshops, three teams developed design installations that celebrated inner and outer peace, peace as something to maintain and peace as a journey.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In <span aria-label=\"Hawaii,\">Â鶹´«Ã½,<\/span> as designers, we are really accustomed to navigating cultural sensitivity in our designs, and it was really interesting to expand upon that in a new place,&rdquo; said <strong>Sophia Collela<\/strong>, a second-year architecture student at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa. &ldquo;In Japan, when we went, we learned about another culture, and specifically about a sensitive event within that culture, and then bringing the students here as well. Now we were not only participating in learning about cultural sensitivity, but teaching it as well, in a place they were also unfamiliar with.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/manoa-architecture-japan-design-exchange-4-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"group photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-174942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/manoa-architecture-japan-design-exchange-4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/manoa-architecture-japan-design-exchange-4-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/manoa-architecture-japan-design-exchange-4.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was a good opportunity to understand how big the differences are between people from different countries,&rdquo; said Shiho Ohkochi, a second-year <abbr>NID<\/abbr> student. &ldquo;I want to treasure this experience and remember this feeling. It is a reason to exchange, to understand our differences and try to understand each other.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><abbr>NID<\/abbr> students were able to experience a typical week at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa\u2019s campus. They interacted with other students and faculty and learned about the city and island from <abbr>UH<\/abbr> students&#8217; perspective, offering a very different experience than they would have had as tourists.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The design exchange offers students an opportunity to practice collaborating and cooperating in design teams, acknowledge strengths or weaknesses, and learn from their peers,&rdquo; said <strong>Karla Sierralta<\/strong>, associate professor in the School of Architecture. &ldquo;Students also gain new knowledge and a sense of responsibility as they present it to their guests, developing a new appreciation for local context and history. Overall, participants are exposed to diverse perspectives and the importance of mutual understanding.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Design Exchange Program is supported in part by the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Architectural Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five students and one faculty from the Nagaoka Institute of Design in Japan visited <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa in an international design exchange program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[240,953,1073,1466,239,9],"class_list":["post-174931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-architecture","tag-international-education","tag-international-exchange","tag-manoa-enhancing-student-success","tag-school-of-architecture","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174931"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174961,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174931\/revisions\/174961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}