FACULTY OF DESIGNUniversity-Level Student Exchange Agreement • September 1st, 2017
The Kyushu Institute of Design was founded in 1968, meaning that geijutsukougaku (literally “artistic engineering” and usually, as in the name of the Institute, translated as “design”) celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in 2018. The term came into use about that time and signifies an academic discipline that fuses science with art, the discipline in which people can most freely express themselves. At the end of the 1960s, when the Kyushu Institute of Design first opened, various distortions in economic development were emerging, and changes in society were being demanded, with an upsurge in student protest movements. Rapid development in science and technology enhanced the quality of people’s lives, but it also caused serious pollution, giving rise to reappraisal of the need for such rapid development. The introduction of the academic discipline of design was the university's answer to this situation in society, and it was intended that the Kyushu Institute of Design should foster "de
