Kobe Design University

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Ever since it was established in the cosmopolitan city of Kobe in 1989, Kobe Design University (Kobe DU) has constantly striven to become a world-class university that educates and researches design and art to achieve the integration of "art & culture" with "science & technology."
Kobe Design University intends to contribute to the promotion of social and cultural development thro...ugh the use of knowledge, state-of-the-art technology, and expression. The institution is also involved in education and research to create new artistic expressions through practices to be carried out in collaboration with various industries. The university was founded by the Tanioka Gakuen Educational Foundation, under the motto, “Training people who contribute to our world.”
The founding philosophy of Kobe Design University is “training people who contribute to our society.” The university’s mission is to foster individuals who are considerate and well-mannered, who have basic practical knowledge, who can think flexibly and who can live an enjoyable and fulfilling life.
In 2009, Kobe DU was accredited as a member of Cumulus (the International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media), which currently consists of 257 members from 54 countries, and commenced collaboration with these design-related universities and colleges around the world. In April 2016, the Kobe DU Comprehensive Research Organization was established to activate research in art and design. It supports interdisciplinary collaborative research by researchers within and outside the University, as well as industry-university collaboration, international collaboration, and funded research. It has a set of research subjects and disseminates their results both within Japan and overseas.
Kobe Design University pursues "Arts and Design" as a study based on human beings and the history of their activities, integrating science and technology with art and culture through design and art-related academic activities.
The field of "Arts and Design", which originated in Japan, emerged at the Kyushu Institute of Design (currently the School of Design of Kyushu University), aiming at "humanization of technology", as a response to various problems of pollution and human alienation observed during Japan’s high economic growth period. Today, more than four decades later, new issues such as the globalization of information, changes in the urban environment, changes in the natural environment caused by global warming, and economic stagnation have joined the universal challenges that academic activities related to Arts and Design are expected to address.
This University aims to advance technologies optimum for human living, and to this end, researches "Arts and Design" that takes advantage of technologies from the standpoint of humankind. We also aspire to cultivate next-level designers, or, in other words, comprehensive designers who extensively incorporate a wide range of technologies beneficial to humankind based on interdisciplinary knowledge of humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, artistic sensibilities, and good education.
Kobe DU Comprehensive Research Organization supports and promotes collaborative research and education within and outside the University, industryuniversity collaboration, international collaboration, funded research, activities surrounding Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, management of institutes of the Organization, intellectual properties in design, the Society for Design and Art Fusing with Science and Technology, and more, in order to further activate research in arts and design.